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This Above All
This Above All Publication date 1941
This Above All (1941) is a novel by Eric Knight. It was
adapted into an Academy Award winning movie in 1942.
Title
The title of the novel is derived from a quote by Polonius
in William Shakespeare’s Hamlet (Act 1, scene 3): "This
above all: to thine own self be true,/ And it must follow, as the
night the day,/ Thou canst not then be false to any man."
Plot
Characters
• Clive Briggs
1st edition • Prudence Cathaway
Author(s) Eric Knight
Country United Kingdom Adaptations
Language English The novel has been adapted to a movie of the same name
in 1942 directed by Anatole Litvak and starring Tyrone
Genre(s) War novel Power and Joan Fontaine. It won the Academy Award for
Romance
Best Art Direction, Black-and-White.
Publisher Cassell
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Categories:
• 1941 novels
• World War II novels
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