Winston Graham's bibliography
Posted: Thu Feb 05, 2004 2:39 am
Out of interest I've been trying to find a list of all of Winston's books and so far I've got to 37, but appreciate it if anyone knows of any more of the officially published ones ?
1. Night Journey
2. Cordelia
3. The Forgotten Story
4. The Merciless Ladies
5. Night Without Stars
6. Take My Life
7. Fortune is a Woman
8. The Little Walls
9. The Sleeping Partner
10. Greek Fire
11. The Tumbled House
12. Marnie
13. The Grove of Eagles
14. After the Act
15. The Walking Stick
16. Angell, Pearl and Little God
17. The Japanese Girl (short stories)
18. Woman in the Mirror
19. The Green Flash
20. Cameo
21. Stephanie
22. Tremor
23. The Ugly Sister
24. The Spanish Armada
25. Poldark's Cornwall
That's all of them so far which including the 12 Poldark ones makes a total of 37 books in all.
I have to confess however I've only managed to read three to date (!) the Omnibus edition of Greek Fire, The Forgotten Story and Marnie and whilst they're all completely different and very well written, for me personally it's Poldark still well on top mainly I think because nearly all of them were so hard to put down.
(Interesting that. I wonder how many judge the final quality of an author's work solely, partially or never on how hard it is to put down ?)
Whilst he says on the first page of his autobiography that he regarded himself simply as a popular novelist, it's been very interesting to discover just how deep and wide-ranging all his literary skills and abilities really were and how he was able to selectively focus them so passionately and so well into the first three or four early Poldark novels. I also seem to remember reading somewhere that he said the whole Poldark series in fact started out as an 18th Century romance and love triangle ? And though I haven't been able to prove this one way or the other, it might also start to explain the differences between his passionate early books and his later perhaps more detached ones once he'd satisfied his interim interest in "the modern world, and particularly the techniques of suspense". (Ref. WG's preface to The Black Moon.) And if this assumption in it's turn is also correct, then logically there should be other "early period" romantic books also possessing this same excellent detailed and highly passionate approach as well ? Meaning finally one has to start out by reading through all of his earliest romantic works first to see if any of this holds true....well I'm hoping I will gradually one day !
Which raises another interesting question. How do you think your second most favourite author of all might have dealt instead with some of the less interesting books, characters and/or incidents in the Poldark series ?
Ranging from say Chaucer, Shakespeare, Bronte, Thackeray, Hardy, Conrad, Shute, Hemingway, Mailer and so on....? Or yourself ?
For starters I think in "Bella" - "Alas poor George I knew him well".
Or how'zabout Valentine and the ape....Carrington....Demelza and Hugh Armitage ?
1. Night Journey
2. Cordelia
3. The Forgotten Story
4. The Merciless Ladies
5. Night Without Stars
6. Take My Life
7. Fortune is a Woman
8. The Little Walls
9. The Sleeping Partner
10. Greek Fire
11. The Tumbled House
12. Marnie
13. The Grove of Eagles
14. After the Act
15. The Walking Stick
16. Angell, Pearl and Little God
17. The Japanese Girl (short stories)
18. Woman in the Mirror
19. The Green Flash
20. Cameo
21. Stephanie
22. Tremor
23. The Ugly Sister
24. The Spanish Armada
25. Poldark's Cornwall
That's all of them so far which including the 12 Poldark ones makes a total of 37 books in all.
I have to confess however I've only managed to read three to date (!) the Omnibus edition of Greek Fire, The Forgotten Story and Marnie and whilst they're all completely different and very well written, for me personally it's Poldark still well on top mainly I think because nearly all of them were so hard to put down.
(Interesting that. I wonder how many judge the final quality of an author's work solely, partially or never on how hard it is to put down ?)
Whilst he says on the first page of his autobiography that he regarded himself simply as a popular novelist, it's been very interesting to discover just how deep and wide-ranging all his literary skills and abilities really were and how he was able to selectively focus them so passionately and so well into the first three or four early Poldark novels. I also seem to remember reading somewhere that he said the whole Poldark series in fact started out as an 18th Century romance and love triangle ? And though I haven't been able to prove this one way or the other, it might also start to explain the differences between his passionate early books and his later perhaps more detached ones once he'd satisfied his interim interest in "the modern world, and particularly the techniques of suspense". (Ref. WG's preface to The Black Moon.) And if this assumption in it's turn is also correct, then logically there should be other "early period" romantic books also possessing this same excellent detailed and highly passionate approach as well ? Meaning finally one has to start out by reading through all of his earliest romantic works first to see if any of this holds true....well I'm hoping I will gradually one day !
Which raises another interesting question. How do you think your second most favourite author of all might have dealt instead with some of the less interesting books, characters and/or incidents in the Poldark series ?
Ranging from say Chaucer, Shakespeare, Bronte, Thackeray, Hardy, Conrad, Shute, Hemingway, Mailer and so on....? Or yourself ?
For starters I think in "Bella" - "Alas poor George I knew him well".
Or how'zabout Valentine and the ape....Carrington....Demelza and Hugh Armitage ?