Charles Duff
For the cricketer, see Charles Duff (cricketer).
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. He resigned from the Foreign Office in the 1930s, claiming it was solidly supportive of fascism in Spain and ready to back a similar system in Britain.[1]
After he retired, he taught linguistics and languages in London and Singapore while writing travel guides, histories, satires, and a series of text books for the active self-learner [2]
Works
- A Handbook on Hanging, the book also covers electrocution, decapitations, gassings, innocent men executed and botched executions.
- A New Handbook on Hanging
- Anthropological Report on a London Suburb (satire), 1935
- 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, 1940 (second edition)
- The Basis and Essentials of German (with Richerd Freund)
- The Basis and Essentials of Spanish
- The Basis and Essentials of Italian
- The Basis and Essentials of Russian (with Anissime Krougliakoff)
- The Basis and Essentials of Portuguese and reader
- 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, 1936
- Handrail and the Wampus; three segments of a polyphonic biogriad, 1931
- James Joyce and the Plain Reader, 1932
Short story
- "The Haunted Bungalow", London: Associated Newspapers 1936
Notes
- ↑ I couldn't paint golden angels - Chapter II
- ↑ "A Handbook for Hanging" Web page of the New York Review of Books Classics Collection Web site, accessed February 26, 2007
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