Israel Rank: The Autobiography of a Criminal (1907) - Softcover

Horniman, Roy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1499176813 ISBN 13: 9781499176810

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2014

Synopsis

First published in 1907 Israel Rank: The Autobiography of a Criminal is perhaps best known as the inspiration for the classic Ealing comedy Kind Hearts and Coronets, which was voted the seventh greatest British film of all time by readers of Total Film magazine in 2004. It has often been suggested that Israel Rank is an anti-Semitic novel but this is untrue. What Horniman does is to use his characters and the novel's plot as a vehicle to explore and parody the anti-Semitism that was rife in Edwardian England. While part of the success of the novel is due to the film's cult status Israel Rank remains a classic comedic novel that explores the antithesis of conventional morality - in short it is a comedy about a serial killer.

About this title

About the Author:

Roy Horniman was born in 1874. He was the owner of The Ladies Review for some years and was a member of the British Committee of The Indian National Congress. As well as acting he became tenant and manager of the Criterion Theatre and wrote many plays as well as adaptations of his own and others' novels. In his later years he wrote and adapted for the screen. Amongst his other works he also published The Sin of Atlantis in 1900 and Lord Cammarleigh's Secret: A Fairy Story of To-Day in 1907.Roy Horniman died in 1930.

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1499176813
• ISBN 13: 9781499176810
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 410