List of works by H. C. McNeile

H. C. McNeile
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Novels↙15
Articles↙1
Stories↙20
Collections↙1
Plays↙3
Scripts↙1
Books edited↙1
References and footnotes

Cyril McNeile, MC (born Herman Cyril McNeile; 1888–1937) was a British soldier and author.[1] During the First World War he wrote short stories based on his experiences in the trenches with the Royal Engineers.[2] These were published in the Daily Mail under the pseudonym Sapper, the nickname of his regiment,[3] and were later published as collections through Hodder & Stoughton.[4] McNeile also wrote a series of articles titled The Making of an Officer, which appeared under the initials C. N., in five issues of The Times between 8 and 14 June 1916;[5][6] these were also subsequently collected together and published.[5] During the course of the war, McNeile wrote more than 80 collected and uncollected stories.[7]

McNeile continued writing after he left the army in 1919, although he stopped writing war stories and began to publish thrillers.[8] In 1920 he published Bulldog Drummond, whose eponymous hero became his best-known creation.[9] The character was based on McNeile himself, his idea of an English gentleman and his friend Gerard Fairlie.[8][a] McNeile wrote ten Bulldog Drummond novels, as well as three plays and a screenplay.[11][12]

McNeile interspersed his Drummond work with other novels and story collections, including two characters who appeared as protagonists in their own works, Jim Maitland and Ronald Standish.[13][14] McNeile was one of the most successful British popular authors of the inter-war period,[15] before his death in 1937 from throat cancer, which has been attributed to being caught in a gas attack in the war.[1]

  1. ^ a b Green 2004.
  2. ^ Treadwell 2001, p. 111.
  3. ^ Bourn 1990, p. 25.
  4. ^ Jaillant 2011, p. 140.
  5. ^ a b Jaillant 2011, p. 150.
  6. ^ Cite error: The named reference Times: Making Officer was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  7. ^ Bertens 1990, p. 51.
  8. ^ a b DelFattore 1988, p. 223.
  9. ^ Jaillant 2011, p. 137.
  10. ^ Bourn 1990, p. 31.
  11. ^ DelFattore 1988, p. 226.
  12. ^ Neuburg 1983, p. 41.
  13. ^ Treadwell 2001, p. 152.
  14. ^ Usborne 1983, p. 178.
  15. ^ Cite error: The named reference Indie: Fowler was invoked but never defined (see the help page).


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