Sims, Alan
Entry updated 26 August 2024. Tagged: Author.
(? - ) Author, presumably UK, of the novels Phoinix (1928) and Anna Perenna (1930). Phoinix reworks Greek Mythology, not only retelling the saga of Achilles in the Trojan War but bringing in Hercules, the Argonauts and the poet Homeros (see Homer), who here exaggerates Achilles' rage and violence for dramatic effect. Anna Perenna (1930) is a broad Satire set a hundred years in the future, when Republican England is in effect ruled by the "Billion-Sale Press", whose newspaper stunts include selling off the British Empire (see Imperialism) to the USA at vast profit and restoring the monarchy via a competition for the election of a new king. The farcical aspects are somewhat at odds with the plight of the king's daughter Anna Perenna, who is doomed to die if she finds love. [DRL]
Alan Sims
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works
- Phoinix (London: Chatto and Windus, 1928) [hb/Leon Louis des Rosiers]
- Anna Perenna (London: Chatto and Windus, 1930) [hb/nonpictorial]
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