Geoffrey household has 66 books on goodreads with 14716 ratings. British author of mostly thrillers, though among 37 books he also published childrens fiction. The ultimate manontherun story, rogue male s account of a wouldbe assassin desperately trying to stay alive is so raw and fullblooded you can practically taste the blood and sweat pouring off the page. While these constricted settings add to rogue males tension, they also reinforce one of the elements that make the book distinctivethe vividness with which the protagonist merges with his surroundings, particularly fields, woods, and streams, as if household felt a kinship with the transcendentalism of wordsworths nature poetry. In 1922 he earned a bachelor of arts degree in english literature from the university of oxford. After graduating from magdalen college oxford he went on to write 36 books mostly thrillers but also including childrens books and collections of short stories. Altogether, household wrote twentyeight novels, including four for young adults. His acclaimed thriller rogue male is now to be made into a film starring benedict cumberbatch. Rogue male at the heart of the prototypical geoffrey household tale is a wilderness lair, often a cave, where a hunted man seeks sanctuary from his pursuers. Rogue male by geoffrey household nook book ebook barnes. Rogue male available for download and read online in other formats. Early in 1939 sir robert hunter takes aim at adolf hitler with a high powered rifle, but the shot misses its mark.
Dec 08, 2011 they devise for him an ingenious and diplomatic death but, for once, they bungle the job and he escapes. With nothing to lose, the rogue male declares his own reckless private war, with no intention of taking prisoners. With peter otoole, john standing, alastair sim, harold pinter. Publication date 20080108 topics bbc radio reading language english. Welcome to geoffrey household s website created by his family. I presume that the title is taken from the care of elephants in the eastern parts of the british empire between ww1 and ww2. After all, one doesnt need a telescopic sight to shoot. Mar 15, 20 in geoffrey household s cult thriller rogue male the assassin hero flees his torturers to dorset. The protagonist is a rogue male, the selfsufficient loner who takes on the world and in this case hitler and his secret service. Household boils down his narrative to its rawest elements, and the effect is gutwrenching.
Rogue male ebook by geoffrey household 9781780222370. Described by household as a bastard offspring of stevenson and conrad, the book is no less remarkable as an exploration of the lure of violence, the psychology of survivalism, and the call of the wild. Publication date 1939 topics assassins, nineteen thirties publisher boston, little, brown and company collection. Geoffrey household as a professional hunter passes through a central european country, he decides to sneak into the dictators private compound and finds himself thrown in prison, enduring a harrowing escape, and. In households bestknown novel, rogue male, the storys narrator has painstakingly enlarged his cave from a rabbit hole in the sandstone bank bordering a. Rogue male ebook by geoffrey household rakuten kobo. Read the book and then see the peter otoole made for tv movie. Widely regarded as a classic, it is often mentioned in lists of the top ten spy novels of all time, although really more of a chase thriller.
The protagonist, an unnamed british sportsman, sets out in the spring of 1938 to see if he can get an unnamed european dictator in the sights of his rifle. Rogue male isbn 9781590172438 pdf epub geoffrey household. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. Geoffrey household s classic thriller, read by michael jayston. It is one of the first assassination novels told from the point of view of the assassin. Read rogue male soon to be a major film by geoffrey household available from rakuten kobo. Geoffrey household s rogue male is a classic thriller and a triumph of suspense. Rogue justice by geoffrey household nook book ebook. He was as widely travelled as the settings of his books suggest. Geoffrey edward west household 30 november 1900 4 october 1988 was a prolific british novelist who specialised in thrillers. An unnamed man stalks an unnamed european leader clearly hitler at berchtesdaden in the months leading up to ww2. Novel in hand, robert macfarlane sets out to find his elusive hideout.
Peter otoole, john standing, alastair sim and harold pinter in the 1976 political thriller set in germany and england on the eve of world war ii. The set up is simple the story told with understated economy and amusing nonchalance and the reader is plunged straight into the action from the very first page. Rogue male was written by geoffrey household and published in 1939. The classic thriller of the 20th century simply the best escape and pursuit story yet written the times with an. Rogue male must forever remain a classic john gardner. Widely regarded as a classic, it is often mentioned in lists of the top ten spy novels of all. After a failed attempt to assassinate hitler in peacetime, the mysterious hero of geoffrey household s classic 1939 thriller rogue male goes undercover in the heart of nazi germany, scheming and planning for a second opportunity. Geoffrey household 19001988 geoffrey household was a prolific novelist of political thrillers and suspense stories, most notably the classic rogue male, which, the times recently declared, remains as exciting and probing as ever.
After graduation, he worked at a bank in romania before moving to spain in 1926 and selling banana. Geoffrey household was born in 1900 and died in 1988. Booktopia rogue male by geoffrey household, 9781409155836. In household s bestknown novel, rogue male, the storys narrator has painstakingly enlarged his cave from a rabbit hole in the sandstone bank bordering a. Rogue male by geoffrey household is a classic thriller novel, published in 1939. He is caught, tortured and left for dead, but escapes back. Download it once and read it on your kindle device. While these constricted settings add to rogue male s tension, they also reinforce one of the elements that make the book distinctivethe vividness with which the protagonist merges with his surroundings, particularly fields, woods, and streams, as if household felt a kinship with the transcendentalism of wordsworths nature poetry. From a 1939 british first edition third impression of thriller writer geoffrey household s third novel, rogue male, we move on in this series of household posts to his thirdfromfinal novel a book which is, in fact, a direct sequel to that handsdown classic, but published over forty years later. An unnamed man stalks an unnamed european leader clearly hitler at. Rogue male by geoffrey household and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at.
Until i picked up the book, i had never before heard of geoffrey. Buy a cheap copy of rogue male book by geoffrey household. Captured and tortured by the gestapo and left for dead, sir robert makes his way back to england where he discovers the gestapo has. Early in 1939 sir robert hunter peter otoole takes aim at adolf hitler michael sheard with a high powered rifle, but the shot misses its mark. Author of rogue male, watcher in the shadows, a rough shoot, dance of the dwarfs, the last two weeks of georges rivac, fellow passenger, thing to love, against the wind geoffrey household open library. Rogue male remains as exciting and probing as ever, untouched by the topicality that made it so popular in 1939, and the reason lies as much in its incisive psychology and timeless crispness of language as in its sensational plot the times. Rogue male by geoffrey household overdrive rakuten. Geoffrey households classic thriller, read by michael jayston. In geoffrey household s cult thriller rogue male the assassin hero flees his torturers to dorset. Geoffrey households rogue male is a classic thriller and a triumph of suspense. Geoffrey household ebooks read ebooks online free ebooks. But england provides no safety from his pursuers and the rogue male must strip away all the trappings of status and civilization as the hunter becomes a hunted animal. Rogue male 1939 by geoffrey household prosperos isle.
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