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Bragg, Melvyn
Bragg, Melvyn ( Lord Bragg) (1939– ), novelist, journalist, and broadcaster, brought up in Cumbria, which forms the setting of several of his works, and educated at Wadham College, Oxford. Well known as a media personality and presenter of the television arts programme The South Bank Show. His novels include Without a City Wall (1968), The Silken Net (1974), The Maid of Buttermere (1987), A Time to Dance (1990, adapted for television in 1992), and Crystal Rooms (1992), a state-of-England novel. The Soldier's Return (1999), A Son of War (2001), and Crossing the Lines (2003) is a sequence of novels about a working-class Cumbrian family's experiences before and after the Second World War.
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MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Bragg, Melvyn." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. 30 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Bragg, Melvyn." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. (May 30, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O54-BraggMelvyn.html MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Bragg, Melvyn." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Retrieved May 30, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O54-BraggMelvyn.html |
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