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Anthony Hope Hawkins was born in Clapton in 1863. He was educated at St. John's School, Leatherhead, Marlborough College and Balliol College, Oxford. He was knighted in 1918.
His novel "Half a Hero", from 1893, has thirty chapters:
1. The Impossible---Inevitable 2. A Popular Demonstration 3. Hospitality ex Officio 4. Weeding out the Weak-Kneed 5. A Talk at a Dance 6. A Candidate for Office 7. A Common Spectacle 8. For the Highest Bidder 9. Two Hasty Utterances 10. The Smoke of Hidden Fires 11. A Conscientious Man's Conscience 12. An Absurd Ambition 13. Out of Harm's Way 14. A Fatal Secession 15. An Attempt at Terrorism 16. A Leaky Vessel 17. The Truth about the Man 18. By an Oversight of Society's 19. Last Chances 20. The Law versus Rule 3 21. All there was to Tell 22. The Story of a Photograph 23. An Orator's Rival 24. Three against the World 25. The Truth too Late 26. The Unclean Thing 27. The Decision of the Oracle 28. Stealing a March 29. A Beaten Man's Thoughts 30. The End of a tumult
Here are the volumes he gave us: A Man of Mark, 1890. Father Stafford,1891. Mr. Witt's Widow: A Frivolous Tale, 1892. A Change of Air, 1893. Half a Hero, 1893. Sport Royal and other stories, 1893. The Dolly Dialogues, 1894. The God in the Car, 1894. The Prisoner of Zenda, 1894. The Indiscretion of the Duchess, 1894. The Chronicles of Count Antonio, 1895. Comedies of Courtship, 1896. The Heart of Princess Osra, 1896 Phroso: A Romance, 1897 Rupert of Hentzau, 1898. Simon Dale, 1898. The King's Mirror, 1899. Quisanté, 1900. Tristram of Blent, 1901. The Intrusions of Peggy, 1902. Double Harness, 1904. A Servant of the Public, 1905. Sophy of Kravonia, 1906. Tales of Two People, 1907. The Great Miss Driver, 1908. Dialogue, 1909. Second String, 1910. Mrs. Maxon Protests, 1911. Helena's Path, 1912. A Young Man's Year, 1915. Why Italy is with the Allies, 1917. Captain Dieppe, 1918. Beaumaroy Home from the Wars, 1919. Lucinda, 1920. Little Tiger, 1925. Memories and Notes, 1927.
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