John Leslie Palmer
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John Leslie Palmer (4 September 1885, Paddington, London – 5 August 1944) was an English author. Under his own name, he wrote extensively about early English actors and about British literary figures. He also wrote fiction as Christopher Haddon, and with Hilary Saint George Saunders under the collaborative pseudonyms Francis Beeding, David Pilgrim, and John Somers.
Books
Ben Jonson
The Man with Two Names
A combination thriller, detection yarn, adventure, in the detailed exposition of a man's downfall. A Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde sort of tale, of a crook who runs a dope ring, to insure the respectability of his alter ego and the social desirability of his daughter.
Rudyard Kipling
Molière
Includes biography, plus plot summaries, character lists, anc critical views of L'Ecole des femmes, Tartuffe, Dom Juan, Le Misanthrope, Le bourgeois gentilhomme, and Le malade imaginaire.