SITWELL, Sir Osbert

SITWELL, Sir Osbert
(1892-1969)
   UK writer. The title novella in Triple Fugue (coll 1924) posits a 1948 world in which Trotsky is President of Russia and lifespans have been trebled for the rich. The Man who Lost Himself (1929) tells the complex psychological life-story of a man from his youth to his death sometime after the middle of the 20th century. Miracle on Sinai (1933), a discussion novel like several of H.G. WELLS's from this period, is set in a luxury hotel near Mount Sinai and on the Mount itself, where a glowing cloud deposits new Tablets of the Law, which are variously interpreted; in the final chapter a cataclysmic war begins. A Place of One's Own (1941 chap) is a ghost story. Fee Fi Fo Fum!: A Book of Fairy Stories (coll 1959) assembles SATIRES.
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   See also: TIME PARADOXES.

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