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David Garnett


Born
in Brighton, Sussex, England
March 09, 1892

Died
February 17, 1981

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David Garnett, known as "Bunny", was an English writer and publisher. A prominent member of the Bloomsbury Group, Garnett received literary recognition when his novel Lady into Fox, an allegorical fantasy, was awarded the 1922 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction. He ran a bookshop near the British Museum with Francis Birrell during the 1920s. He also founded (with Francis Meynell) the Nonesuch Press. He wrote the novel Aspects of Love (1955), on which the later Andrew Lloyd-Webber musical was based.

He was the son of Richard Garnett. His first wife was the illustrator and author Ray Garnett (née Marshall) with whom he had two sons including Richard Garnett. His second wife was Angelica Bell. His mother was the translator Constance Ga
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Lady into Fox

3.64 avg rating — 2,452 ratings — published 1922 — 119 editions
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Een man in de dierentuin

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Aspects of Love

3.30 avg rating — 220 ratings — published 1955 — 15 editions
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A Man In The Zoo & Lady int...

3.54 avg rating — 110 ratings — published 1924 — 19 editions
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The Letters of T.E. Lawrenc...

4.22 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 1941 — 7 editions
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The Sailor's Return

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3.43 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 1925 — 32 editions
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איש בגן החיות

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3.63 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 1924 — 2 editions
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Great Friends

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Pocahontas: or, The Nonpare...

2.93 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 1933 — 15 editions
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The Sailor's Return & Beany...

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“Wonderful or supernatural events are not so uncommon, rather they are irregular in their incidence. Thus there may be not one marvel to speak of in a century, and then often enough comes a plentiful crop of them; monsters of all sorts swarm suddenly upon the earth, comets blaze in the sky, eclipses frighten nature, meteors fall in rain, while mermaids and sirens beguile, and sea serpents engulf every passing ship, and terrible cataclysms beset humanity.”
David Garnett, Lady into Fox

“Every one of her foxey ways was now so absolutely precious to him that I believe that if he had known for certain she was dead, and had thoughts of marrying a second time, he would never have been happy with a woman. No, indeed, he would have been more tempted to get himself a tame fox, and would have counted that as good a marriage as he could make.”
David Garnett, Lady into Fox

“Pone merum et talos pereat qui crastina curat.”
David Garnett, Aspects of Love

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