ISBN: Ostalo
Godina izdanja: 1950
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

Ruby M. Ayres - The Thousandth Man
Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1950
250 str.
tvrdi povez
stanje: dobro, pečat na poslednoj strani.

She knew he would always wait-- but would he?

Even trashier than usual, in the story of Robin who has her head turned by a sudden windfall, goes to Paris to be "finished", returns to London spoiled -- and has a few tough turns of fortune`s screw before she finds that the gigolo she has attached in Paris is a rotter, and the friend of the family is the 1000th man.
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Ruby Mildred Ayres was born on 28 January 1881 in Watford, Hertfordshire, the third daughter of the marriege formed by Alice (née Whitford) and Charles Pryor Ayres, a London-based architect. In 1909 she married Reginald William Pocock, a insurance broker, and they lived in Harrow until his death in a train accident. As widow without childrens, she moved to her sister`s home at Weybridge, Surrey.

She started to write as a girl, and her first story was published in a magazine shortly after her marriage, and in 1912 she published her first novel, Castles in Spain. In September 1915, with her first popular success, Richard Chatterton, V.C. (which sold over 50,000 copies in the first three years), she moved publishing houses to Hodder and Stoughton, where she remained until her death in 1955. She wrote over 150 novels and serialised works. Several of her works became films and she did screenwriting for Society for Sale among others. She corresponded with Douglas Sladen, and also was was possibly an inspiration for the P. G. Wodehouse character Rosie M. Banks. She died on 14 November 1955 in a nursing home in Weybridge, aged 74, of a combination of pneumonia and a cerebral thrombosis. She was cremated four days later at Golders Green in north London.


Fiction, Romance