Charles Duff

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Charles Duff (1894-1966) was a British author of books on language learning and other subjects.

Duff served as an officer in the British Merchant Navy in World War I and then in the intelligence division of the Foreign Office and Diplomatic Service. After he retired, he taught linguistics and languages in London and Singapore while writing travel guides, histories, satires, and a series of text books.[1]

Contents

[edit] Works

  • A Handbook on Hanging, the book also covers electrocution, decapitations, gassings, innocent men executed and botched executions.
  • A New Handbook on Hanging
  • Russian For Beginners,
  • Spanish For Beginners,
  • French For Beginners,
  • Italian For Beginners,
  • How to Learn a Language, 1947
  • French For Home Study
  • England and the English
  • The Basis and Essentials of French
  • The Basis and Essentials of German
  • The Basis and Essentials of Spanish
  • All Purpose Russian for Adults
  • Six Days to Shake an Empire
  • Italian for Adults
  • Mysterious People: An Introduction to the Gypsie, 1965
  • The Truth about Columbus and the Discovery of America, 1957

[edit] Short story

  • "The Haunted Bungalow", London: Associated Newspapers 1936

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ [1]"A Handbook for Hanging" Web page of the New York Review of Books Classics Collection Web site, accessed February 26, 2007

[edit] External links

  • [2] Information on Duff at LanguageHat.com
  • [3] Library Thing Web site, page on Charles Duff books
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