Signed with their honour

UZBEKISTAN STATE UNIVERSITY OF WORLD LANGUAGES


THEORY AND PRACTICE OF TRANSLATION FACULTY


Course paper


Theme: JAMES ALDRIDGE`S SOCIAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL NOVEL “SIGNED WITH THEIR HONOUR”

Scientific advisor
Bannopova Zulxumor

Group: 1933
Name of the student:
Akhmedova Umida


Tashkent 2022

JAMES ALDRIDGE`S SOCIAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL NOVEL “SIGNED WITH THEIR HONOUR”

CONTENTS:

	Pages
INTRODUCTION	3
MAIN PART	6
Harold Edward James Aldridge, an Australian-British writer and journalist.	6
2. The creation of works of James Aldridge	11
3. Review about the novel “The diplomat”	17
4. About the masterpiece of “The last inch”	22
CONCLUSION	27
REFERENCES	29

INTRODUCTION
Aldridge was born in White Hills, a suburb of Bendigo, Victoria. In the mid-1920s, the Aldridge family moved to Swan Hill, and many of their Australian stories are based on their lives growing up there. He studied at the London School of Economics. He returned to Australia and worked for The Sun News-Pictorial in Melbourne from 1935 to 1938. In 1938, Aldridge moved to London, which remained his base until his death in 2015.
During World War II, Aldridge served in the Middle East as a war correspondent, covering the Axis invasions of Greece and Crete. Based on his experiences, he wrote his first novel Signed with Their Honour and the book was published in both Britain and the United States in 1942, becoming an immediate best-seller. The novel centred on a fictional young British Royal Air Force pilot named John Quayle who flies obsolete Gladiator biplanes for the true-life 80 Squadron against the larger and more powerful Axis air-forces over Greece, Crete and North Africa 1940–41. The novel received considerable praise from reviewers including the Miami News which said "...so graphic are the descriptive passages that the reader tastes the dust and feels the insect stings in the Egyptian heat". American critic Herbert Faulkner West stated that the book "showed real promise" and ranked it the best of his wartime novels. The book proved to be one of Aldridge's most successful, remaining in print until 1988. An attempt in 1943 to make a film based on the novel was abandoned when two Gloster Gladiator biplanes were destroyed in a mid-air collision during filming at an RAF base at Shropshire in the UK.
His second novel The Sea Eagle (1944), which centred on Australian soldiers during and after the fall of Crete in 1941, was also successful but received less favourable reviews than his first book. American critic N. L. Rothman, however, writing in the Saturday Review, praised the novel for its "timeless-ness" and the high quality of its prose. Aldridge's early novels were heavily influenced by the literary mannerisms of US author Ernest Hemingway. For The Sea Eagle, Aldridge won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize.
Aldridge's most successful and widely published novel, The Diplomat, was released in 1949. As a political and spy drama set in the midst of the Azerbaijani Revolution in Iran, the novel received many mixed opinions. Anglo-Soviet magazine called it fascinating and impressive. However, an American review of Kirkus, while acknowledging that the book's premise was promising and original, called it slow, repetitive, and cumbersome.
His 1950 novel The Hunter proved that Aldridge was willing to try a variety of genres and settings. A television series about fur hunters living in the wilderness of the Ontario bush in Canada, the novel, according to Walter O'Meara in the Saturday Review, is written in "frank prose, direct to So, as soon as you decide to get bored of you, straighten it out with a sharp, revealing word or phrase." He went on to say that it was "a sincere and sometimes profound study of man against eternal disadvantage".