Stoneham, C T
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1895-1965) Indian-born author, educated in the UK and in active service during World War One, living much of his adult life in Kenya and South Africa; he wrote some mysteries and Westerns as by Norgrove Thurley. Of his fiction, much of which was set in Africa and featured animals both native and imported; his extremely numerous stories for the London Evening News between 1933 and 1964 usually focused on animals in the wild. The young protagonist of the Kaspa sequence – comprising The Lion's Way: A Tale of Men and Lions (1929; vt King of the Jungle 1932), filmed as King of the Jungle (1933); and Kaspa the Lion Man (1933) – is brought up in the African wilds by a lioness, discovers after being captured that he is the heir to a large fortune but scorns the effeteness of civilized life and returns to his home, after enthralling a white woman; the derivation from Tarzan is clear. [JC]
Charles Thurley Stoneham
born India: 1895
died Transvaal, South Africa: 1965
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Kaspa
- The Lion's Way: A Tale of Men and Lions (London: Hutchinson and Company, 1929) [Kaspa: hb/]
- King of the Jungle (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1932) [vt of the above: Kaspa: hb/]
- Kaspa the Lion Man (London: Methuen, 1933) [Kaspa: hb/]
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