Alington, Adrian
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1895-1958) UK author of Sanity Island (1941) which, set on an Island not unlike Britain, is a comic Satire on political extremism and the farcical aspects of re-armament – the targets are mainly of the left. Alington's last novel, Excellency (1951), set on a fictitious Mediterranean island, repeats good-humouredly but not fantastically some of the effects of the earlier book; it was filmed as Excellency (1952). [JC]
Captain Adrian Richard Alington
born Oxford, Oxfordshire: 19 April 1895
died Surrey: 30 October 1958
works
- Sanity Island (London: Chatto and Windus, 1941) [hb/Clarke Hutton]
- Excellency (London: Chatto and Windus, 1951) [hb/]
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