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Geoffrey Household


Born
in Bristol, The United Kingdom
November 30, 1900

Died
October 04, 1988

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British author of mostly thrillers, though among 37 books he also published children's fiction. Household's flight-and-chase novels, which show the influence of John Buchan, were often narrated in the first person by a gentleman-adventurer. Among his best-know works is' Rogue Male' (1939), a suggestive story of a hunter who becomes the hunted, in 1941 filmed by Fritz Lang as 'Man Hunt'. Household's fast-paced story foreshadowed such international bestsellers as Richard Condon's thriller 'The Manchurian Candidate' (1959), Frederick Forsyth's 'The Day of the Jackal' (1971), and Ken Follett's 'Eye of the Needle' (1978) .

In 1922 Household received his B.A. in English from Magdalen College, Oxford, and between 1922 and 1935 worked in commerce ab
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Rogue Male (Rogue Male, #1)

3.92 avg rating — 5,235 ratings — published 1939 — 105 editions
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Rogue Justice

3.69 avg rating — 291 ratings — published 1982 — 13 editions
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Watcher in the Shadows

3.79 avg rating — 256 ratings — published 1960 — 30 editions
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Dance of the Dwarfs

3.59 avg rating — 146 ratings — published 1968 — 15 editions
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A Rough Shoot (A Rough Shoo...

3.49 avg rating — 107 ratings — published 1951 — 27 editions
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The Exploits of Xenophon

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3.87 avg rating — 69 ratings — published 1955 — 22 editions
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A Time to Kill

3.49 avg rating — 76 ratings — published 1951 — 23 editions
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The Spanish Cave

4.10 avg rating — 41 ratings — published 1936 — 21 editions
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Escape into Daylight

3.79 avg rating — 43 ratings — published 1976 — 8 editions
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Hostage: London

3.57 avg rating — 44 ratings — published 1978 — 16 editions
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Quotes by Geoffrey Household  (?)
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“I have noticed that what cats most appreciate in a human being is not the ability to produce food - which they take for granted - but his or her entertainment value. Asmodeus took to his toy enthusiastically. In another week he permitted me to stroke him, producing a raucous purr, but, in order to save his face, pretending to be asleep.”
Geoffrey Household, Rogue Male
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“I have never taken sides, never leaped wholeheartedly into one scale or the other; nor do I realize disappointments, provided they are severe, until the occasion is long past. Yet I am ruled by my emotions, though I murder them at birth.”
Geoffrey Household, Rogue Male

“He who has learned not to intrude his emotions upon his fellows has also learned not to intrude them upon himself.”
Geoffrey Household, Rogue Male

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