Harry Purvis

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Harry Purvis is the witty, often unreliable raconteur who narrates the tall, science-fictional barroom stories in Arthur C. Clarke’s collection "Tales from the White Hart."

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Harry Purvis canonical 14

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Predicate Object
instanceOf fictional character ⓘ
literary character ⓘ
narrator ⓘ
raconteur ⓘ
appearsIn Tales from the White Hart ⓘ
individual stories originally published in magazines and later collected in Tales from the White Hart ⓘ
appearsInForm short stories ⓘ
appearsInGenre comic science fiction ⓘ
appearsInWorkBy British author Arthur C. Clarke ⓘ
linked to: Arthur C. Clarke
associatedWith London pub culture ⓘ
White Hart ⓘ
audienceWithinFiction regulars at the White Hart pub ⓘ
characteristic humorous ⓘ
unreliable ⓘ
witty ⓘ
countryOfOriginInFiction United Kingdom ⓘ
createdBy Arthur C. Clarke ⓘ
fictionalUniverse Arthur C. Clarke’s White Hart milieu ⓘ
genre science fiction ⓘ
hasThemeInStories scientific experimentation ⓘ
speculative technology ⓘ
unexpected consequences ⓘ
knownFor elaborate barroom yarns ⓘ
pseudo-scientific explanations ⓘ
languageOfCharacter English ⓘ
literaryFunction linking device for story cycle ⓘ
literarySeries White Hart stories ⓘ
medium prose fiction ⓘ
narrativeDevice story-within-a-story ⓘ
narrativePerspective first-person ⓘ
narrativeRole frame narrator ⓘ
occupation storyteller ⓘ
publicationContext Tales from the White Hart story collection ⓘ
relationshipToAuthor author surrogate in some stories ⓘ
reliabilityOfNarration often questionable ⓘ
settingOfActivity White Hart pub ⓘ
linked to: The White Hart pub
storyType science-fictional anecdotes ⓘ
tall tales ⓘ
tellsStoriesIn barroom setting ⓘ
toneOfStories ironic ⓘ
light-hearted ⓘ

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