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The Admirable Crichton

The Admirable Crichton

Barrie, James Matthew

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ISBN10: 1541200470
ISBN13: 9781541200470
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Dec 20 2016
Pages: 88
Weight: 0.28
Height: 0.18 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Barrie took the title for The Admirable Crichton from the sobriquet of a fellow Scot, the polymath James Crichton, a 16th-century genius and athlete. The epigram-loving Ernest is probably a caricature of the title character in Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest. The plot may derive from Robinson's Eiland, an 1896 German play by Ludwig Fulda. In this, a satire upon modern super-cultur in its relation to primal nature, a group of Berlin officials (including a capitalist, a professor and a journalist) are shipwrecked on an island, where a secretary, Arnold, becomes the natural leader of the group. The contemporary critic Arthur Bingham Walkley, however, viewed the connection as merely a rumour: I feel quite indifferent as to its accuracy of fact.

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