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Arnold Safroni-Middleton (International) assertion Arnold Safroni-Middleton i(A8067 works by) (a.k.a. Safroni-Middleton, A; Arnold Safroni)
Also writes as: Count M. Safroni
Born: Established: ca. 3 Feb 1873 London,
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England,
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United Kingdom (UK),
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Western Europe, Europe, ; Died: Ceased: 7 Nov 1950 London,
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England,
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United Kingdom (UK),
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Western Europe, Europe,
Gender: Male
Visitor assertion Arrived in Australia: ca. 1887
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1 y separately published work icon The Ship's Figure-Head: Rhymed Improvisations, New and Selected Arnold Safroni-Middleton , London : Fortune Press , 1950 Z1355789 1950 selected work poetry
1 y separately published work icon In the Green Leaf : A Chapter of Autobiography Arnold Safroni-Middleton , London : Fortune Press , 1950 Z1353357 1950 single work autobiography travel 'When this Atomic Age suddenly ends, and this Welfare World is blown to smithereens, one imagines that in a world of saner men, In the Green Leaf will be one of the first reprints, for it tells, eloquently, of a time when the spirit of youth, adventure and monumental pluck could go forth and drink the Wine of Life to its sparkling brimful, and proves, up to the hilt, that 'One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name'.' - Book jacket
1 y separately published work icon The Priestlike Task: (terrors of a triple personality) Arnold Safroni-Middleton , London : The World Wide Press , 1948 Z1354043 1948 single work novel mystery
1 y separately published work icon The Dreaming Skull: (The Terrors of a Triple Personality) Arnold Safroni-Middleton , London : The World Wide Press , 1947 Z1354040 1947 single work novel mystery
1 1 y separately published work icon Torn Sails and Sunset Arnold Safroni-Middleton , London : The World Wide Press , 1945 Z1355699 1945 selected work poetry
1 y separately published work icon Ad Valorem: rhymed improvisations Arnold Safroni-Middleton , London : The World Wide Press , 1941 Z1355733 1941 selected work poetry
1 y separately published work icon Under Many Names Count M. Safroni , London : Mitre Press , 1937 Z1355778 1937 single work novel
1 y separately published work icon Symphony in Trees : New Poems from the Wide Spaces Arnold Safroni-Middleton , London : Mitre Press , 1937 Z1355721 1937 selected work poetry
1 y separately published work icon Tides of Sunrise and Sunset : The Fourth Dimension of Romance Arnold Safroni-Middleton , London : Heath Cranton , 1932 Z1353687 1932 selected work prose poetry travel
1 y separately published work icon Sprays From the Bush, Sea and Mountain: poems Arnold Safroni-Middleton , London : Grant Richards , 1931 Z1353704 1931 selected work poetry
1 y separately published work icon Sestrina: A Lyrical Drama of the Pagan South Seas i "Sestrina! child of grief, arise from night -", Arnold Safroni-Middleton , London : Grant Richards , 1931 Z1353566 1931 single work poetry 'The tragic life of Sestrina Catholot, daughter of an ex-President of Haiti, stands out not merely through the catastrophic calamity brought about by a Mexican sea-captain's cupidity, but serves as a symbol of the soul's battle against monumental sufferings, and of inherent faith and heroism against conflicting emotions.' - author's foreword.
1 y separately published work icon Two Faces in Borneo: A Drama of a Dual Personality Arnold Safroni-Middleton , London : Grant Richards , 1928 Z1355682 1928 single work novel mystery
1 y separately published work icon Tropic Shadows : Memories of the South Seas, Together with Reminiscences of the Author's Sea Meetings with Joseph Conrad Arnold Safroni-Middleton , London : Grant Richards , 1927 Z1354050 1927 single work autobiography travel
1 y separately published work icon Island Princess Arnold Safroni-Middleton , London : Jarrold , 1924 Z1353413 1924 single work novel romance adventure
1 y separately published work icon No Extradition: A Romance of the South Sea Islands Arnold Safroni-Middleton , London : Ward, Lock , 1923 Z1355672 1923 single work novel romance 'A French woman-convict, with musical talents, escapes Noumea to Fiji. She is befriended by an Englishman and a Scotchman, who deceive the French naval officers. Escaping on a vessel bound for 'no-extradition' ports in South America, she and her male friends are shipwrecked and cast adrift. Rescued by a French steamer, she is brought back to Noumean prison-life, but finally escapes with the aid of her two friends, who were meantime in Raratonga.' (Miller)
1 y separately published work icon Ragged Romance: Out of Sapphire Seas and Tropic Lands Arnold Safroni-Middleton , London : Jarrold , 1923 Z1353457 1923 single work novel romance adventure 'Narrates the romantic peregrinations of a young aesthete devoted to his violin. He wanders through New Zealand, Samoa, New Guinea, the Marquesas and back to New Zealand. There are references to Maori legends, gold hunting and pearling, as well as meetings with R. L. Stevenson.' - Miller
1 y separately published work icon A Child of the Forest : The Romance of the Last of the Marqesans Arnold Safroni-Middleton , London : John Long , 1922 Z1351921 1922 single work novel historical fiction Details the social and religious customs of the original inhabitants of the Marqesas and 'imaginatively records their fate'. - Miller
1 y separately published work icon An Island Wooing : A Romance of the South Seas and Lotus Land Arnold Safroni-Middleton , London : John Long , 1921 Z1353757 1921 single work novel romance adventure 'The adventures of a Japanese girl washed ashore and rescued on the south-west coast of Papua.' - Miller
1 y separately published work icon The Pagan: (a South Sea mystery story) Arnold Safroni-Middleton , London : The World Wide Press , 1920-1930 Z1353776 1920-1930 single work novella mystery
1 y separately published work icon Sestrina: A Romance of the South Seas Arnold Safroni-Middleton , London : Methuen , 1920 Z1353611 1920 single work novel adventure romance 'Recounts the story of Sestrina, the daughter of the President of the Hayti Republic. In the first part her life is linked with a young English musician and the background comprises a revolution and Voodoo abominations; the rites and superstitions are detailed. In the second part the story shifts to a lonely isle of the South seas afflicted with leprosy. Sestrina is sympathetic to an Hawaiian missionary there although she herself becomes a pagan.' - Miller
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