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Hugh Conway, the pen name of Frederick John Fargus (26 December 1847 – 15 May 1885), was an English novelist born in Bristol, the son of an auctioneer. He had success with his fiction in the early 1880s.
Fiction. edit data. Hugh Conway, the pen name of Frederick John Fargus, was an English novelist born in Bristol, the son of an auctioneer. Combine Editions. Hugh Conway’s books. Average rating: 3.33 · 135 ratings · 24 reviews · 58 distinct works • Similar authors. More books by Hugh Conway… Quotes by Hugh Conway (?)
78 ratings10 reviews. The first in a new series of classic detective stories from the vaults of HarperCollins involves a blind man who stumbles across a murder. As he has not seen anything, the assassins let him go, but he finds it is impossible to walk away from murder.
Hugh Conway may refer to: Hugh Conway (novelist) (1847–1885), English novelist. Sir Hugh Conway (Lord Treasurer) (1440–1518), member of the royal household of king Henry VII. Hugh Conway (bishop) (1819–1893), Irish prelate.
Lost Horizon, novel by James Hilton, published in 1933. Hugh Conway, a veteran member of the British diplomatic service, finds inner peace, love, and a sense of purpose in Shangri-La, a utopian lamasery high in the Himalayas in Tibet.
Hugh Conway saw humanity at its worst while fighting in the trenches of the First World War. Now, more than a decade later, Conway is a British diplomat serving in Afghanistan and facing war yet again—this time, a civil conflict forces him to flee the country by plane.
HUGH CONWAY, the nom-de-plume of FREDERICK JOHN FARGUS (1847-1885), English novelist, who was born at Bristol on the 26th of December 1847, the son of an auctioneer. He was intended for his father's business, but at the age of thirteen joined the training-ship "Conway" in the Mersey.
