Английская Википедия:An African Millionaire

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Шаблон:Hatnote Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Use dmy dates Шаблон:One source Шаблон:Infobox play An African Millionaire is a 1904 play by the British writer Edgar Wallace, then a journalist working for the Daily Mail.

It was his first play, and proved to be a major flop, running for only six performances in a Cape Town theatre, before being withdrawn after a very poor reception from critics.[1] Wallace had previously spent several years in South Africa working as a journalist, and modelled the story on the life of Cecil Rhodes. His expectations that the play would be a hit and then transfer to London and other cities of the Empire provided unfounded.[1]

Wallace's popular thriller novel The Four Just Men was published the following year launching his career as a fiction author.

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Bibliography

  • Clark, Neil. Stranger than Fiction: The Life of Edgar Wallace, the Man Who Created King Kong. Stroud, UK: The History Press, 2015.

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  1. 1,0 1,1 Clark, p. 93