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Jack Lindsay

Male : Prolific Novelist, Historian and translator. Son of Norman Lindsay. Settled in England 1926. Founded the Fanfrolico Press in 1927
Nationality : Australian Place of Birth : Melbourne

Date of Birth : 1900 Date of Death : 1990 Age : 90

Pseudonyms : Richard Preston

Education : Brisbane GS & Brisbane Univ
FICTION
Cressida's First Lover : A Tale of Ancient Greece
(1931 John Lane, The Bodley Head)
Rome for Sale
(1934)
Caesar is Dead
(1935)
Runaway
(1935 OUP)
Last Days with Cleopatra
(1935)
Storm at Sea
(1935 Golden Cockerel Press) - 250 signed. John Farleigh
Adam of a New World
(1936 Nicholson & Watson)
Come Home at Last
(1936 Nicholson & Watson) - ss
Rebels of the Goldfields
(1936)
Sue Verney
(1939)
Brief Light
(1939)
1649 : A Novel of a Year
(1938 Methuen)
Hannibal Takes a Hand
(1941 Andrew Dakers)
Beyond Terror : A Novel of the Battle of Crete
(1943 Andrew Dakers)
The Barriers are Down : A Tale of the Collapse of Civilisation
(1945 Gollancz)
Time to Live
(1946 A Dakers)
Stormy Violence
(1947)
Fire in Smithfield
(1949)
The Passionate Pastoral
(1951 Bodley Head)
The Rising Tide
(1953)
The Revolt of the Sons
(1960)
All on the Never-Never : A Novel of the British Way of Life
(1961 Frederick Muller 16/-)
The Way the Ball Bounces
(1962)

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Wanderings of Wenamen
Despoiling Venus
The Great Oak
The Storm Barrier
Lost Birthright
Light in Italy
Men of Forty-Eight
End of Cornwall
We Shall Return
Hullo Stranger
Betrayed Spring
The Moment of Choice
Local Habitation

PLAY
Helen Comes of Age : Three Plays
(1927 Fanfolico Press) - 500 numbered & signed

NON-FICTION
William Blake : Creative Will and the Poetic Image
(1927 Fanfrolico Press) - Norman Lindsay
The London Aphrodite
(1928-9 Fanfrolico Press, London) - 6 numbers
Edited by Lindsay & P R Stephensen
Norman Lindsay, Lionel Ellis, Elioth Gruner
Medieval Latin Poets
(1934 Elkin Mathews & Marrot)
The Romans
(1935 A & C Black) - Pearl Binder
The Anatomy of Spirit
(1937 Methuen)
Marc Antony : His World & His Contemporaries
(1936 Routledge)
Perspective for Poetry
(1944 Fore Publications, London)
Marxism and Contemporary Science
(1949 Dobson)
After the Thirties : The Novel in Britain and its Future
(1956 Lawrence & Wishart 15/-)
George Meredith : His Life and Work
(1956 Bodley Head)
The Writing on the Wall : An Account of Pompeii in its Last Days
(1960)
The Roaring Twenties : Literary Life in Sydney, NSW, in the Years 1921-6
(1960)
The Death of the Hero : French Painting from David to Delacroix
(1960 The Studio, London)
William Morris
(1961)
Fanfrolico and After
(1962 Bodley Head)
Our Celtic Heritage
(1962)
Masks and Faces
(1963 Muller)
Daily Life in Roman Egypt
(1963)
Nine Days Wonder : Wat Tyler
(1964)
The Clashing Rocks : A Study of Early Greek religion and Culture
(1965)
Leisure and Pleasure in Roman Egypt
(1965)
Our Anglo-Saxon Heritage
(1965)
Thunder Underground : A Story of Nero's Rome
(1965)
J M W Turner : His Life and Work
(1966)
Our Roman Heritage
(1967)
Meetings with Poets : Memories of Dylan Thomas, Edith Sitwell, Louis Aragon,
Paul Eluard & Tristan Tzara
(1968)
Men and Gods on the Roman Nile
(1968)
The Ancient World : Manners and Morals
(1968)
Cezanne : His Life and Art
(1969)
The Origins of Alchemy in Graeco-Roman Egypt
(1970
Cleopatra (1971)
The Origins of Astrology
(1971)
Gustave Courbet : His Life & Art
(1973 Icon, Harper & Row, NY)
Death of a Spartan King and Two Other stories of the Ancient World
(1974)
The Normans and Their World
(1974)
Helen of Troy : Woman and Goddess
(1974)
Blast Force and Ballistics : Concepts of Force & Energy in the Ancient World
(1974)
The Troubadours and Their World
(1976)
Hogarth : His Art & His World
(1977) (1979 Taplinger, NY)
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Song of a Falling World
Byzantium into Europe
Civil War in England
The Romans Were Here
Arthur and His Times
John Bunyan
Charles Dickens
Life Rarely Tells
(autobiography)
A Short History of Culture
Handbook of Freedom

POETRY
Clue of Darkness
(1949 Andrew Dakers)
Three Letters to Nikolai Tikhonov
(1950 Fore - Key Poets 7)
(Ed) Loving Mad Tom : Bedlamite Verses of the 16th & 17th C's (1927 Fanfrolico Press)
- 375. Etchings by Norman Lindsay
Dionysos : Nietzsche Contra Nietzsche
(1928 Fanfrolico Press, London) - 500
(Ed) Inspiration : An Anthology of Utterances by Creative Minds (1928 Fanfrolico Press) - 725
The Satyricon and Poems by Gaius Petronius
(1960 Elek) - Norman Lindsay

Related Writers

William Blake
John Bunyan
Fanfrolico Press
Golden Cockerel Press
George Meredith
William Morris


See also

Edward Bawden