Israel Rank
A Classics, European Literature, British Literature book. The book on which Kind Hearts & Coronets was based....
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."'There...
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- Pages: 416 pages
- ISBN: 9780571245482 / 0
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Roy Horniman's 1907 novel Israel Rank is better known as the inspiration for the 1949 Alec Guinness film Kind Hearts & Coronets, as well as the 2013 Best Musical A Gentleman's Guide to Love & Murder. All three entertainments share the similar high concept, in which a low-ranking aspirant to a high-profile estate and title faces the... This is an interesting book ... if nothing else because it is the basis for the classic Ealing black comedy Kind Hearts and Coronets.The book is sufficently different to make it an enjoyable read in its own right. The book on which Kind Hearts & Coronets was based. It's nicely written, with a beguiling narrator - he's no Humbert Humbert, but we can't helping rooting for him as he bumps off the aristocrats standing in the way of his title. The author has put a lot of work into the way a murderer might think, creates some vivid characters and set-piece...
