Dorothy L. Sayers (1893–1957)
Autor(a) de Gaudy Night
About the Author
Dorothy Sayers's impressive reputation as a contemporary master of the classic detective story is eclipsed only by Agatha Christie's. Sayers was born in Oxford and attended Somerville College, where she received a B.A. in 1915 and an M.A. in 1920. During that period, Sayers worked as an instructor mostrar mais of modern languages at Hull High School for Girls in Yorkshire and as a reader for a publisher in Oxford. Her early literary work was in poetry; she published several volumes and served as an editor for the journal Oxford Poetry from 1917 to 1919. Sayers also worked as a copywriter for a major advertising firm in London. She was president of the Modern Language Association from 1939 to 1945 and of the Detection Club in the 1950s. Around 1920 Sayers developed the idea for her detective hero Lord Peter Wimsey, and she soon published her first mystery, Whose Body? (1923), in which Lord Peter is introduced. For the next dozen or so years, Sayers wrote prolifically about Wimsey, creating in the process what many critics of the genre consider to be the finest detective novels in the English language. Perhaps her most famous Wimsey mystery was The Nine Tailors (1934). Although Sayers essentially followed the classic form in her detective fiction---a formula in which the plot assumes a greater importance than do the characters---Sayers maintained that a detective hero's greatness depended on how effectively the character was portrayed. All but one of Sayers's mysteries feature Lord Peter Wimsey. By the late 1930s, Sayers had apparently tired of writing detective fiction. She stated in 1947 that she would write no more mysteries, that she wrote detective fiction only when she was young and in need of money. Thus saying, Sayers turned her attention to her early loves, medieval and religious literature, spending her remaining years lecturing on and translating Dante (see Vol. 2). (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
Séries
Obras de Dorothy L. Sayers
Letters to a Diminished Church: Passionate Arguments for the Relevance of Christian Doctrine (2004) 374 cópias
The Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries: Whose Body?, Clouds of Witness, and Unnatural Death (1923) 190 cópias
On the Case with Lord Peter Wimsey: Three Complete Novels/Strong Poison/Have His Carcase/Unnatural Death (1991) 122 cópias
Three Complete Lord Peter Wimsey Novels: Whose Body?, Murder Must Advertise, Gaudy Night (1992) 104 cópias
The Gospel in Dorothy L. Sayers: Selections from Her Novels, Plays, Letters, and Essays (The Gospel in Great Writers) (2018) 53 cópias
The Dorothy L. Sayers Crime Collection: Murder Must Advertise, the Nine Tailors, Gaudy Night, Have His Carcass & Strong… (1997) 52 cópias
Lord Peter and Harriet: Part II (Gaudy Night and Busman's Honeymoon, Lost Classics Omnibus) (1937) 37 cópias
Omnibus: Containing Whose body? The unpleasantness at the Bellona club, Suspicious characters (1923) 31 cópias
The Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries Volume Two: The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club, Strong Poison, The Five Red… (2018) 31 cópias
Four Classic Dorothy L. Sayers Mysteries: Strong Poison/Have His Carcase/Gaudy Night/Busman's Honeymoon (1990) 26 cópias
The Lord Peter Wimsey Short Story Collection: Lord Peter Views the Body / Hangman's Holiday / In the Teeth of the… (2018) 24 cópias
Five Red Herrings: Starring Ian Carmichael as Lord Peter Wimsey (BBC Radio Collection) (1978) 24 cópias
Lord Peter Wimsey: BBC Radio Drama Collection Volume 1: Three classic full-cast dramatisations (2017) 23 cópias
Taking Detective Stories Seriously: The Collected Crime Reviews of Dorothy L. Sayers (2017) 17 cópias
The Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries Volume Three: Murder Must Advertise, The Nine Tailors, Gaudy Night, and Busman's… (2018) 16 cópias
The Lord Peter Wimsey Collection: Whose Body?, The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club, The Five Red Herrings, Nine… (1990) 16 cópias
Have His Carcase: BBC Radio 4 Full-cast Dramatisation. Starring Ian Carmichael & Maria Aitken (BBC Radio Collection) (1981) 15 cópias
Striding Folly [short story] 14 cópias
Lord Peter Wimsey: BBC Radio Drama Collection, Volume 3: Four BBC Radio 4 Full-Cast Dramatisations (2018) 14 cópias
Mystery (The Case of the Perfect Maid, The Third-Floor Flat, The Image in the Mirror, The Red-Headed League) (1989) 13 cópias
Lord Peter Wimsey Investigates: Selected Short Stories (Macmillan Collector's Library) (2018) 13 cópias
Lord Peter Wimsey: BBC Radio Drama Collection Volume 2: Four BBC Radio 4 Full-Cast Dramatisations (2018) 12 cópias
Three Great Lord Peter Novels: "Strong Poison", "Murder Must Advertise" and "Nine Tailors" (1978) 10 cópias
The Christ of the Creeds: And Other Broadcast Messages to the British People During World War II (2008) 8 cópias
The mysterious English 8 cópias
Early Works of Dorothy Sayers 6 cópias
God, Hitler and Lord Peter Wimsey: Selected Essays, Speeches and Articles by Dorothy L. Sayers (2019) 5 cópias
The Sayers holiday book 5 cópias
The other six deadly sins: An address given to the Public Morality Council at Caxton Hall, Westminster, on October… (1943) 4 cópias
Beyond Schooling: Building Communities Where Learning Really Matters — Contribuinte — 4 cópias
Mitt namn är Wimsey 4 cópias
Kriminalhistorier 4 cópias
Peter Wimsey historier 4 cópias
Clouds of Witness / Murder Must Advertise / Strong Poison / Unnatural Death / Busman's Honeymoon (1982) 3 cópias
Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery, and Horror: Volume VI — Editor — 3 cópias
The Lord Peter Wimsey Collection 3: Murder Must Advertise / The Nine Tailors / Busman's Honeymoon (2004) 3 cópias
Have his carcase 3 cópias
OBRAS ESCOGIDAS. EL MISTERIO DE RIDDLESDALE LODGE. LORD PETER DESCUBRE EL DELITO. CINTO PISTAS FALSAS. EL CASO DEL… (1964) 2 cópias
Peter Wimsey Omnibus - Whose Body? Clouds of Witness, Murder Must Advertise, Busman's Honeymoon (Unabridged) (2012) 2 cópias
Les Origines du Roman Policier: A Wartime Wireless Talk to the French. The Original French Text with an English… (2003) 2 cópias
Lord Peter Wimsey 2 cópias
Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery, and Horror: Volume IV — Editor — 2 cópias
The Poetry of Search and Poetry of Statement 1 exemplar(es)
Complete Works of Dorothy L Sayers (Grapevine Press) 1 exemplar(es)
Gaudy Nights 1 exemplar(es)
Strong Poison a Peter Wimsey Novel 1 exemplar(es)
Set of 2 Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries (In the Teeth of the Evidence, The Nine Tailors) 1 exemplar(es)
Bu Kimin Cesedi? 1 exemplar(es)
Şüphe Bulutları 1 exemplar(es)
Selected Poems 1 exemplar(es)
Complete Novels of Dorothy L Sayers (Grapevine Press) 1 exemplar(es)
Onrust in Oxford & Moord op de ijzeren trap 1 exemplar(es)
The Murder of Julia Wallace [essay] 1 exemplar(es)
The greatest single defect of my own Latin education 1 exemplar(es)
A "caixa" 1 exemplar(es)
Backgrounds to World Literature. Classics for Christians Volume I (1980) — Contribuinte — 1 exemplar(es)
The Omnibus of Crime 1 exemplar(es)
Dorothy L. Sayers Set (6 novels) 1 exemplar(es)
Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery, and Horror: Volume V — Editor — 1 exemplar(es)
Masterpieces Of Mystery And Detection 1 exemplar(es)
The House Of The Soul Lay 1 exemplar(es)
The Story of Adam and Christ 1 exemplar(es)
OBRA SELECTA 1 exemplar(es)
Let's Choose Executors 1 exemplar(es)
The Story of Noah's Ark 1 exemplar(es)
strong poison 1 exemplar(es)
I always have a quotation for everything - it saves original thinking (a collection of quotable quotes) (2010) 1 exemplar(es)
The Dorothy L. Sayers Crime Collection: Strong Poison (v.1); Have His Carcase (v.2); Murder Must Advertise (v.3); The… 1 exemplar(es)
Dorothy Sayers bedste Lord Peter-Historier 1 exemplar(es)
O Mistério de Battersea 1 exemplar(es)
Dorothy L Sayers Mysteries 1 exemplar(es)
Sayers, Dorothy L 1 exemplar(es)
Scoop: "The Final Scoop" (in The Scoop & Behind the Screen) 1 exemplar(es)
Třikrát lord Petr 1 exemplar(es)
Behind the Screen: III (in The Scoop & Behind the Screen) 1 exemplar(es)
The Man Born to be King [abridged] [sound recording] 1 exemplar(es)
Das Spiegelbild 1 exemplar(es)
The Dorothy L. Sayers Omnibus: The Five Red herrings, Strong Poison, Lord Peter Views the Body (1933) 1 exemplar(es)
And Telling You a Story 1 exemplar(es)
anything that she writes 1 exemplar(es)
Dorothy Sayers Box Set (Four Mystery Classics Featuring the Inimitable Lord Peter Wimsey, Box Set: Whose Body?; Strong… (1968) 1 exemplar(es)
Detective omnibus 1 exemplar(es)
Ein unheimlicher Kunde 1 exemplar(es)
The Emperor Constantine 1 exemplar(es)
Strong poison and Have his carcase, 1 exemplar(es)
The Lord Peter Wimsey MEGAPACK® 1 exemplar(es)
Tales of Detection and Mystery from The Ominbus of Crime 1 exemplar(es)
Wimsey papers : being war-time letters and documents of the Wimsey family [anthology] [ebook] 1 exemplar(es)
The Classic Collection of Dorothy L. Sayers. Novels and short stories. Illustrated: Whose Body?, Clouds of Witness,… 1 exemplar(es)
The second omnibus of crime 1 exemplar(es)
The lost tools of learning Symposium on Education 1 exemplar(es)
Tales of Detection. Everyman's Library No. 928 1 exemplar(es)
Dante papers trilogy. 1 exemplar(es)
Strong Poison: A Lord Peter Wimsey Novel 5 1 exemplar(es)
Dorothy L. Sayers 4 Book Set - The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club - Strong Poison - Murder Must Advertise -… (1963) 1 exemplar(es)
Premium Lord Wimsey 7 Novel Collection: Whose Body? / Clouds of Witness / Unnatural Death / The Unpleasantness at the… 1 exemplar(es)
The 2nd Omnibus of Crime 1 exemplar(es)
Busman's holiday 1 exemplar(es)
The Art of the Actor 1 exemplar(es)
Unnatural Death; the Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club; Have His Carcase; in the Teeth of Evidence; Whose Body;… 1 exemplar(es)
THE LORD PETER WIMSEY COLLECTION 1 exemplar(es)
Two Lord Peter Wimsey Stories 1 exemplar(es)
Her Oxford 1 exemplar(es)
Dorothy L. Sayers: Starkes Gift "Strong Poison" 1 exemplar(es)
Associated Works
Great Detectives: A Century of the Best Mysteries from England and America (1984) — Contribuinte — 356 cópias
Wise Women: Over Two Thousand Years of Spiritual Writing by Women (1996) — Contribuinte — 201 cópias
Miraculous Mysteries: Locked Room Mysteries and Impossible Crimes (2017) — Contribuinte — 103 cópias
Permanent Things: Toward the Recovery of a More Human Scale at the End of the Twentieth Century (1995) — Contribuinte — 88 cópias
Bodies from the Library 2: Forgotten Stories of Mystery and Suspense by the Queens of Crime and other Masters of Golden… (2019) — Contribuinte — 67 cópias
Murder by the Book: Literary Mysteries from Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine and Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine (1995) — Contribuinte — 67 cópias
The Web She Weaves: An Anthology of Mystery and Suspense Stories by Women (1983) — Contribuinte — 52 cópias
Dorothy L. Sayers Mysteries: Harriet Vane Collection (Strong Poison / Have His Carcase / Gaudy Night) (2013) — Original book — 44 cópias
Ghosts from the Library: Lost Tales of Terror and the Supernatural (2023) — Contribuinte — 44 cópias
The Edge of the Chair: A Superlative Collection, Some Fact, Some Fiction, All Suspense (1967) — Contribuinte — 42 cópias
Grande Dames of Detection: Two Centuries of Sleuthing Stories by the Gentle Sex (1973) — Contribuinte — 32 cópias
Sisters of Sorcery: Two Centuries of Witchcraft Stories by the Gentle Sex (1976) — Contribuinte — 30 cópias
Bodies from the Library 5: Forgotten Stories of Mystery and Suspense from the Golden Age of Detection (2022) — Contribuinte — 28 cópias
Mistresses of Mystery: Two Centuries of Suspense Stories by the Gentle Sex (1973) — Contribuinte — 27 cópias
The World's Greatest Detective Stories: Intriguing Mysteries from the Greatest Writers of Crime Fiction (1978) — Contribuinte — 26 cópias
Academy Mystery Novellas: Women Sleuths, Police Procedurals, Locked Room Puzzles, Great British Detectives ( BOX Set) (1985) — Contribuinte — 14 cópias
Masters of the Macabre: An Anthology of Mystery, Horror, and Detection (1975) — Contribuinte — 13 cópias
Sleuths: Twenty-Three Great Detectives of Fiction and Their Best Stories (1931) — Contribuinte — 6 cópias
Great Mystery Books, 10 Volumes (Journey into Fear, The 39 Steps, And Then There Were None, Maltese Falcon, The Nine… (1967) — Contribuinte — 5 cópias
Detektivhistorier fra Sherlock Holmes til Hercule Poirot — Contribuinte — 3 cópias
Great Mystery Series: Eight of the Best Mysteries by the Top Women Writers [audiobook] (2000) — Contribuinte — 3 cópias
The Fourth Mystery Bedside Book — Contribuinte — 3 cópias
Crime and Detection (Second Series) — Contribuinte — 2 cópias
Stories for girls — Contribuinte — 1 exemplar(es)
Murder Mixture: An Anthology of Crime Stories — Contribuinte — 1 exemplar(es)
Ellery Queen's 1966 Anthology — Contribuinte — 1 exemplar(es)
Mystery and Suspense — Contribuinte — 1 exemplar(es)
Hånden i sandet og andre virkelige kriminalsager skildret af berømte kriminalforfattere (1974) 1 exemplar(es)
Verdens beste kriminalhistorier — Contribuinte — 1 exemplar(es)
The great detectives — Contribuinte — 1 exemplar(es)
No Flowers by Request — Contribuinte — 1 exemplar(es)
Tchnienie Grozy — Contribuinte — 1 exemplar(es)
The Case of the Rolling Bones | Witness for the Prosecution [and] The Under Dog | Lord Peter Views the Body 1 exemplar(es)
Best Crime Stories 2 — Contribuinte — 1 exemplar(es)
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome de batismo
- Sayers, Dorothy Leigh
- Outros nomes
- Fleming, Dorothy Leigh
Flemming, Dorothy Leigh Sayers - Data de nascimento
- 1893-06-13
- Data de falecimento
- 1957-12-17
- Local de enterro
- St. Anne's Church, London, England, UK
- Sexo
- female
- Nacionalidade
- UK
- País (para mapa)
- England, UK
- Local de nascimento
- Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK
- Local de falecimento
- Witham, England, UK
- Causa da morte
- coronary thrombosis
- Locais de residência
- Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK
London, England, UK
Witham, England, UK - Educação
- Oxford University (MA|1920|Somerville College)
Godolphin School, Salisbury - Ocupação
- copywriter
playwright
translator
mystery writer
essayist
The Detection Club, president - Relacionamentos
- Reynolds, Barbara (goddaughter)
- Organizações
- Detection Club
- Premiações
- Archie Goodwin Award (2007)
Blue Plaque - Pequena biografia
- Although best known as a writer of Golden Age British mystery novels featuring amateur sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey, Dorothy L. Sayers also was a student of classical and modern languages, a playwright, and an essayist. Her translation of Dante's Divine Comedy is still considered a classic.
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name suggestion: Dorothy Sayers em Legacy Libraries (Março 2021)
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Talking Piffle Message Board em Talking Piffle (Julho 2019)
NOVEMBER READ - SPOILERS - The Nine Tailors em The Green Dragon (Fevereiro 2014)
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— Dorothy Sayers
“O diagnóstico de Dorothy Sayers é demolidor — e, como é evidente, aplica-se de modo preciso à situação da educação no Brasil: repetimos frases sobre a importância da educação, gastamos dinheiro, sobrecarregamos os professores, sem percebermos que deixamos de lado o mais importante: o ensino das ferramentas de aprendizagem. Aquilo a que chamamos ‘educação’ não passa de escolarização — uma educação imperfeita, e muitas vezes uma verdadeira deseducação.”
— Gustavo Bertoche, na introdução… (mais)