Cards of Identity

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When first published in 1955 no less a critic than W. H. Auden wrote, 'I have read no novel published during the last fifteen years with greater pleasure and admiration.' task is to restore Hyde's Mortimer to its former order in preparation for the summer session of the Identity Club. And their scheme is to persuade various local inhabitants, by employing questionable methods, that they are not really who they think they are. Then the Club meets for the reading of three very bizarre papers. was not alone in praising it. The literary critic, Walter Allen, referred to its 'exuberance of comic invention', John Davenport compared it to Robert Louis Stevenson's 'Suicide Club', and The Times hailed it as 'one of the funniest, most intelligent and far-reaching pieces of satire.' reissuing the following of Nigel Dennis's novels: Boys and Girls Come Out to Play, The Cards of Identity and A House in Order

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Nigel Dennis (1912-1989) was born in England and educated variously in Rhodesia, South African, Austria and Bavaria. He wrote too little but for all that there were three novels (and one that was disowned), four plays, a volume of poetry and three works of non-fiction. For twenty years he was the lead reviewer for the Sunday Telegraph. His study of Jonathan Swift, one of his heroes as his own mastery of satire suggests, won the Royal Society of Literature award. Faber Finds is reissuing his three novels: Boys and Girls Come Out to Play, The Cards of Identity and A House in Order.