{"id":7970,"date":"2019-02-12T12:34:06","date_gmt":"2019-02-12T12:34:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/martinblack.com\/?page_id=7970"},"modified":"2019-05-14T09:03:01","modified_gmt":"2019-05-14T09:03:01","slug":"books-by-peter-de-polnay","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/martinblack.com\/oldsite\/books-by-peter-de-polnay\/","title":{"rendered":"Books by Peter de Polnay"},"content":{"rendered":"

Note: This page is part of the Peter de Polnay project<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n

I found this list on the Fantastic Fiction website<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Polnay wrote 93 books in total, 15 of which were non-fiction.\u00a0 He also wrote short stories<\/a> for magazines.<\/p>\n

Fiction<\/h2>\n
    \n
  1. Angry Man’s Tale (1938) (see Neglected Books review<\/a>)<\/li>\n
  2. Children, My Children (1939)<\/li>\n
  3. Boo (1941)<\/li>\n
  4. The Magnificent Idiot (1942)<\/li>\n
  5. Water On the Steps (1943)<\/li>\n
  6. Two Mirrors (1944)<\/li>\n
  7. A Letter to an Undertaker (1946)<\/li>\n
  8. A Pin’s Fee (1946)<\/li>\n
  9. The Umbrella Thorn (1946)<\/li>\n
  10. The Fat of the Land (1948)<\/li>\n
  11. The Moot Point (1948)<\/li>\n
  12. Into an Old Room (1949)<\/li>\n
  13. Out of the Square (1949)
    \n(Short     New York Times review<\/a>: “A strange and sometimes beautiful book which surely can take a place on the front bookshelf of literature about Italy of the late Forties, this story moves in the twilight of fantasy without being fantastic. On the outside — modern people wandering through the public squares and private villas of a Florence shadowed by its medievalism — the narrative is fairly simple.”)<\/li>\n
  14. Somebody Must (1949)<\/li>\n
  15. The Next Two Years (1951)<\/li>\n
  16. A Beast in View (1953)<\/li>\n
  17. When Time Is Dead (1954)<\/li>\n
  18. Before I Sleep (1955)<\/li>\n
  19. Fools of Choice (1955)<\/li>\n
  20. The Shorn Shadow (1956)<\/li>\n
  21. The Clap of Silent Thunder (1957)<\/li>\n
  22. The Night of the Hyrax (1958)<\/li>\n
  23. The Scales of Love (1958)<\/li>\n
  24. A Door Ajar (1959)
    \n(Short review from     The Spectator<\/a> in 1959:
    \n“The young de Polnay won and lost a fortune in five months on the Riviera of the 1930s, when ‘it was then like a beautiful lady: nowadays it is a travel agent surrounded by a caravan site.’ Evocative of that now transmogrified place, and of that forgotten age when the King of Sweden was playing in the mixed doubles, and with a remarkable chapter on the splendours and miseries of the gaming table.”)<\/li>\n
  25. The Shriek of the Gull (1959)<\/li>\n
  26. The Uninvolved (1959)<\/li>\n
  27. The Crack of Dawn (1960)<\/li>\n
  28. The Gamesters (1960)<\/li>\n
  29. Mario (1961)<\/li>\n
  30. No Empty Hands (1961)
    \n(Short review from     Encounter magazine<\/a>: “This popular writer\u2019s new novel is the story of a Catholic’s spiritual conflict. It is his deepest and therefore most important book.”<\/li>\n
  31. The Flames of Art (1962)<\/li>\n
  32. A Man of Fortune (1963)<\/li>\n
  33. The Run of Night<\/a> (1963)<\/li>\n
  34. Three Phases of High Summer (1963)<\/li>\n
  35. A Home of One’s Own (1964)<\/li>\n
  36. The Plaster Bed (1964)<\/li>\n
  37. As the Crow Flies (1965)<\/li>\n
  38. In Raymond’s wake (1965)<\/li>\n
  39. The Centre-Piece (1966)
    \n(Short review at     The Spectator<\/a>: “Mrs Harriet Visser Long is an American millionairess who is sixty-five, but who tells everyone that she is fifty and `thereafter had to appear fifty.’ If Peter de Polnay’s entertainment, called The Centre-Piece, has a tragic side, it is the picture drawn of an ageing woman keeping up a pretence and clinging to the memory of herself as great hostess with a succession of lovers. The present story revolves round a dinner-party which she gives in Paris, and the summoning of her guests provides the author with an opportunity to portray not only a series of witty character sketches, but to offer some telling observations about what exactly it is that goes to make an expatriate.”)<\/li>\n
  40. Not the Defeated (1966)<\/li>\n
  41. A Winter’s Promise (1967)<\/li>\n
  42. The Second Death of a Hero (1968)<\/li>\n
  43. The Patriots (1969)<\/li>\n
  44. Tower of Strength (1969)<\/li>\n
  45. Napoleon’s Police (1970)<\/li>\n
  46. Permanent Farewell (1970)<\/li>\n
  47. Spring Snow and Algy (1970)<\/li>\n
  48. Tale of Two Husbands (1970)<\/li>\n
  49. T.-shaped World (1971)<\/li>\n
  50. Life of Ease (1971)<\/li>\n
  51. Caroline’s Way (1972)<\/li>\n
  52. The Moon and the Marabou Stork (1972)<\/li>\n
  53. The Grey Sheep (1972)<\/li>\n
  54. The Loser (1973)<\/li>\n
  55. Price You Pay (1973)<\/li>\n
  56. Indifference (1974)<\/li>\n
  57. The Crow and the Cat (1974)<\/li>\n
  58. The Scrapheap (1974)<\/li>\n
  59. The Chains of Pity (1975)<\/li>\n
  60. Blood and Water (1975) (see Neglected Books review<\/a>)<\/li>\n
  61. Clump of Trees (1976)<\/li>\n
  62. None Shall Know (1976)<\/li>\n
  63. The Stuffed Dog (1976)<\/li>\n
  64. Make Believe (1977)<\/li>\n
  65. Driftsand (1977)<\/li>\n
  66. Other Shore of Time (1978)<\/li>\n
  67. It’s Cold Next Door (1978)<\/li>\n
  68. Autumn Leaves Merchant (1979)<\/li>\n
  69. The Talking Horse (1980)<\/li>\n
  70. A Stone Throw (1981)<\/li>\n
  71. Minor Giant (1981)<\/li>\n
  72. Sea Mist (1982)<\/li>\n
  73. Of Venison and Victims (1983)<\/li>\n
  74. Other Self (1983)<\/li>\n
  75. The Lost Stronghold (1984)<\/li>\n
  76. Guest House (1985)<\/li>\n
  77. The Dog Days (1986)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    <\/a><\/p>\n

    Non-fiction<\/h2>\n
      \n
    1. Death and To-morrow<\/a> (1942) (see also a review on the Salvete atque Valete! blog<\/a> )<\/li>\n
    2. Germans Came to Paris (1943) (See Kirkus<\/a> review)
      \n(Also, a short review by\u00a0Robert Gale Woolbert at       Foreign Affairs<\/a>:
      \n“This description of life, intrigue and growing French resistance in Nazi-dominated Paris is one of the best accounts to come out of occupied France. The author is a Hungarian novelist who for a while enjoyed special privileges in the French capital.”)<\/li>\n
    3. Death of a Legend (1952)<\/li>\n
    4. An Unfinished Journey (1952)<\/li>\n
    5. Descent from Burgos (1956)<\/li>\n
    6. Peninsular Paradox (1958)<\/li>\n
    7. Travelling Light (1959)<\/li>\n
    8. Garabaldi (1960)<\/li>\n
    9. Madame De Maintenon (1960)<\/li>\n
    10. A Queen of Spain (1962)<\/li>\n
    11. The World of Maurice Utrillo (1967)<\/li>\n
    12. Aspects of Paris (1968)<\/li>\n
    13. Sarah Bernhardt (1968)<\/li>\n
    14. Enfant Terrible (1969)<\/li>\n
    15. Paris (1970)<\/li>\n
    16. My Road- An Autobiography (1978)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      Contributed to<\/h2>\n
        \n
      1. The true story of the Maid of Orleans (1969)<\/li>\n
      2. (as translator) The Vampires of Alfama by Pierre Kast<\/a> (1976)
        \n(Short blurb found at         lwcurrey.com<\/a>\u00a0:\u00a0 “Leftist historical fantasy set in eighteenth-century Europe. A vampire scientist is trying to bring physical immortality to man, to bypass the kind offered by the Church.\u00a0 A brilliant novel by a noted film critic, spectacular in its grotesquerie and eroticism; it boldly offers the vampire a role more aptly heroic than those subsequently popularized by such writers as Saberhagen … and Yarbro …”)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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