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Leonard Arthur Magnus

1879 – 1924

British scholar, translator, and utopian fiction writer

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Lived 1879 – 1924 (aged 44). Leonard Arthur Magnus was a British science fiction writer and translator.

Leonard Arthur Magnus, LL.B. (December 12, 1879 – September 11, 1924) was a British scholar and translator, with interests in Russian literature, as well as the author of a novel of utopian fiction.

Biography Leonard A. Magnus was son of Sir Philip Magnus, Bt. and Lady Magnus. He was the editor of Respublica for the Early English Text Society, a translator from Russian, and an author of his own works.

Works

A Japanese Utopia (1905) A Japanese protagonist finds a utopian lost world north of Japan. Roumania's Cause & Ideals (1917) Pros and Cons of the Great War: A Record of Foreign Opinion, with a Register of Fact (1917) "a collection of brief extracts and quotations from various foreign writings and speeches, principally German; as references to sources are given the compilation can be made to serve some of the uses of a bibliography." The Heroic Ballads of Russia (1921) Russian Folk-Tales by Alexander Afanasyev translation, with introduction The Tale of the Armament of Igor (1915) translation of The Tale of Igor's Campaign from Russian, editing, with introduction, notes, and glossary Three plays by Anatoly Lunacharsky Translation with collaboration with K. Walter for Broadway Translations

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Who was Leonard Arthur Magnus?

British scholar, translator, and utopian fiction writer

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Leonard Arthur Magnus was born on 12 December 1879.

When did Leonard Arthur Magnus die?

Leonard Arthur Magnus died on 11 September 1924 in Moscow.

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Leonard Arthur Magnus was a science fiction writer and translator.

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Leonard Arthur Magnus was British.

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· Wikipedia: Leonard Arthur Magnus

· Wikidata: Q23719265

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