Dorothy L. Sayers : five classic radio dramas featuring Lord Peter Wimsey
by Sayers, Dorothy L. 1893-1957.
Summary
Five radio dramas by Dorothy L. Sayers that feature Lord Peter Wimsey. Full description
Summary: |
Five radio dramas by Dorothy L. Sayers that feature Lord Peter Wimsey. |
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Item Description: |
Title from container. "A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation"--Inserts for last 4 titles BBC Radio 4 broadcasts originally aired between 1974 and 1983. |
Physical Description: |
11 audio discs (12 hr., 15 min.) ; 4 3/4 in. |
Playing Time: |
12:15:00 |
ISBN: |
9781609983185 1609983181 9780563494096 0563494093 9781846071492 1846071496 9780563525479 0563525479 9781846071478 184607147X 9781846071485 1846071488 |
Author Notes: |
Around 1920 Sayers developed the idea for her detective hero Lord Peter Wimsey, and she soon published her first mystery, Whose Body? (1923), in which Lord Peter is introduced. For the next dozen or so years, Sayers wrote prolifically about Wimsey, creating in the process what many critics of the genre consider to be the finest detective novels in the English language. Perhaps her most famous Wimsey mystery was The Nine Tailors (1934). Although Sayers essentially followed the classic form in her detective fiction---a formula in which the plot assumes a greater importance than do the characters---Sayers maintained that a detective hero's greatness depended on how effectively the character was portrayed. All but one of Sayers's mysteries feature Lord Peter Wimsey. By the late 1930s, Sayers had apparently tired of writing detective fiction. She stated in 1947 that she would write no more mysteries, that she wrote detective fiction only when she was young and in need of money. Thus saying, Sayers turned her attention to her early loves, medieval and religious literature, spending her remaining years lecturing on and translating Dante (see Vol. 2). (Bowker Author Biography) |