Literary Works
Alington wrote more than 50 books including works on religion, biography, history, poetry, and a series of detective novels. He also wrote several popular hymns including The Lord of Hosts Our King Shall Be. This hymn is used as the epigraph to Nevil Shute's novel "In the Wet" (NS Norway was a pupil at Shrewsbury; Alington and Shrewsbury feature in his autobiography "Slide Rule")
His works of fiction include:
- Mr Evans - A Cricketo-Detective Story (1922)
- Through the Shadows (1922)
- Strained Relations (1922)
- The Count in Kensington (1926)
- King Harrison & Others (1923)
- The Abbot's Cup (1930)
- Crime on the Kennet (1939)
- Ten Crowded Hours (1944)
- Archdeacons Afloat (1946)
- Midnight Wireless (1947)
- Archdeacons Ashore (1947)
- Blackmail in Blankshire (1949)
- Gold and Gaiters (1950)
- The Nabob's Jewel (1953)
- Blessed Blunders (1954).
His non-fiction works include:
- A Schoolmaster's Apology (1914)
- Shrewsbury Fables (1917)
- Eton Fables (1921)
- Twenty Years: Being a Study of the Party System, 1815–1835 (1921)
- Virgil Aeneid IV-VI (1922 - translation of Virgil)
- Why We Read the Old Testament (1924)
- An Eton Poetry Book (1925 - an anthology co-edited with George Lyttelton)
- More Eton Fables (1927)
- Elementary Christianity (1927)
- Doubts and Difficulties (1929)
- Cautionary Catches (1931 - verses in Latin and English)
- Christian Outlines: An Introduction to Religion (1932)
- Final Eton Fables (1933)
- Eton Faces Old and Young (1933)
- Lionel Ford (1934)
- The Fool Hath Said (1933)
- Can We Believe in God? (1936)
- Things Ancient and Modern (1936 - autobiographical book on English public schools)
- The New Testament: A Reader's Guide (1938)
- The Last Crusade (1940)
- Christianity in England: An Historical Sketch (1942)
- Poets at Play (1942)
- In Shabby Streets and Other Verses (1942)
- Edward Lyttelton: An Appreciation (1943)
- Good News (1945);
- Europe: A Personal and Political Survey (1946)
- The Life Everlasting (1947)
- Durham Cathedral: The Story of a Thousand Years (1948)
- Sense and Non-sense (1949)
- The Kingdom of God (1950)
- A Dean's Apology: A Semi-religious Autobiography (1952).
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