The great romantic : cricket and the golden age of Neville Cardus
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The great romantic : cricket and the golden age of Neville Cardus
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The work The great romantic : cricket and the golden age of Neville Cardus represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in London Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham Libraries. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.
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- The great romantic : cricket and the golden age of Neville Cardus
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- cricket and the golden age of Neville Cardus
- Statement of responsibility
- Duncan Hamilton
- Language
- eng
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- Neville Cardus described how one majestic stroke-maker 'made music' and 'spread beauty' with his bat. Between two world wars, he became the laureate of cricket by doing the same with words. In 'The Great Romantic', award-winning author Duncan Hamilton demonstrates how Cardus changed sports journalism for ever. While popularising cricket - while appealing, in Cardus' words to people who 'didn't know a leg-break from the pavilion cat at Lord's'- he became a star in his own right with exquisite phrase-making, disdain for statistics and a penchant for literary and musical allusions. Among those who venerated Cardus were PG Wodehouse, John Arlott, Harold Pinter, JB Priestley and Don Bradman. However, behind the rhapsody in blue skies, green grass and colourful characters, this richly evocative biography finds that Cardus' mother was a prostitute, he never knew his father and he received negligible education
- Biography type
- individual biography
- Cataloging source
- StDuBDS
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- 070.4'49796'092
- 070.4'49796'092
- 070.4'49796'092
- 070.4'49796'092
- 070.449796092
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- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
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