阿佛列·爱德嘉·柯伯德

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阿佛列·爱德嘉·柯伯德（Alfred Edgar Coppard，1878年1月4日 - 1957年1月13日）是一位英国作家、诗人。

故事集

• Adam & Eve & Pinch Me (1921)
• Clorinda Walks in Heaven (1922)
• The Black Dog and Other Stories (1923)
• Fishmonger's Fiddle: Tales (1925)
• The Field of Mustard (1926)
• Silver Circus (1928)
• Count Stefan (1928)
• The Higgler (1930)
• Nixey's Harlequin (1931)
• Fares Please! (1931)
• Crotty Shinkwin and The Beauty Spot (1932)
• Dunky Fitlow (1933)
• Ring the Bells of Heaven (1933)
• Emergency Exit (1934)
• Pink Furniture (1935)
• Polly Oliver (1935)
• Ninepenny Flute (1937)
• You Never Know, Do You? (1939)
• Ugly Anna (1944)
• Fearful Pleasures (1946)
• Selected Tales (1946)
• The Dark Eyed Lady – Fourteen Tales (1947)
• Collected Tales (1948)
• Lucy in Her Pink Coat (1954)
• Selected Stories (1972)
• The Collected Tales of A. E. Coppard (1976)
• The Higgler and Other Stories (1991)
• The Man from the Caravan and Other Stories (1999)
• Father Raven and Other Tales (2006)
• Weep not my wanton : selected short stories (2013)

诗集

• Hips and Haws (1922)
• Yokohoma Garland & Other Poems (1926)
• Pelaga and Other Poems (1926)
• The Collected Poems of A. E. Coppard (1928)
• Cherry Ripe: Poems (1935)
• Simple Day: Selected Poems (1978)

诗歌故事

• The Hundredth Story of A. E. Coppard (1930)
• Cheefoo (1932)
• Good Samaritans (1934)
• These Hopes of Heaven (1934)
• Tapster's Tapestry :A Tale (1938)

非小说

• Rummy: that noble game expounded in prose, poetry, diagram and engraving (1932)

编辑

• Songs from Robert Burns. Selected by A. E. Coppard, with wood engravings by Mabel M. Annesley (1925)

Contributor

• Consequences, a complete story in the manner of the old parlour game, in nine chapters, each by a different author (1932)
• The Fairies Return, or New Tales for Old (1934)

自传

• It's Me, O Lord! (1957)

目录

延伸阅读

• Fabes, Gilbert H., The First Editions of A. E. Coppard, A. P. Herbert and Charles Morgan, 1933 London: Myers.
• Saul, George Brandon, A.E. Coppard: His Life and Poetry,1932, University of Pennsylvania, Ph.D. dissertation.
• Schwartz, Jacob with foreword and notes by A. E. Coppard, A Bibliography of A. E. Coppard - The Writings of Alfred Edgar Coppard, 1931.
• Jehin, A. Remarks on the Style of A.E. Coppard. Buenos Aires, 1944.

生平

阿佛列·爱德嘉·柯伯德出生于福克斯通（Folkestone），双亲是裁缝和女佣。柯伯德在贫困的情况下长大，后来将他的童年描述为“惊人的贫穷”，而弗兰克·奥康纳（Frank O'Connor）将柯伯德的童年描绘成“残酷”。

在1920年代初，他认识理查德·休斯（Richard Hughes）和埃德盖尔·里克斯（Edgell Rickword）等人。

阿佛列·爱德嘉·柯伯德是独立工党的成员，小说受到托马斯·哈代的影响，最初的作品比贝茨（Herbert Ernest Bates）更受欢迎。