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Frank Tilsley

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Description:I'd Do It AgainFrank Tilsley (1936)"In the deperession of the thirties, low wages and their only legitimate alternative, the dole, were no basis for marriage. This is the moral impasse which was defied by the young clerk of Frank Tilsley's story. For, desiring only a decent home, which was to him a necessity, he resorted to petty theft, with the conscious conviction that 'Honesty isn't a virtue. It's a luxury'."Spectator - 28 MAY 1936BOOKS with lower-class heroes are often distorted by snobbery, (witness in their very different ways Mr. Vells and D. H. Lawrence). Mr. Frank Tilsley's hero, who speaks in the first person, does not suffer from this. In spite of his first person he is palpably, and all the time; a human being and not a faulty gramophone record which jams on a catchword. This hero is a clerk who earns three pounds a week and is in love with his wife. These two conditions being incompatible, his love for his wife wins. Ile asks his odious employer for a two-pound rise, does not get it, and calmly decides to make enough periodical thefts from the firm to bring his income up to the five pounds A week which he thinks he deserves. He steals Ingeniously, so that there is only a chance in a thousand of detection, but the odd chances tend to turn up ; this makes the book a good deal more exciting than the average detective novel. Apart from excitement, I would say that this book had sociological interest were it not that one thinks of sociology as a kind of foul sauce poured over a story in pints and killing all flavours.- Mr. Tilsley has the knack of making commonplace detail interesting. This is because, as in Defoe, the detail is in the first place interesting to the characters of the book themselves and is not stuck on in an academic attempt- at -objectivity. Hence our pleasure in learning how the clerk has to move his kettle sideways to get it under the bathtap, how he lays out his suburban garden and builds a shed with four-inch posts, how he cheats on the Underground and economises over his lunch 'and the tutiourit his wife's clothes cost. His thoughts and reactions are throughout_ in chanuter, whether he is being sensual, hard-headed, contemplative or lyrical. Such a clerk successfully cheating such ifti mould indeed be one of the few people in our world with a right to be lyrical. This is about the best novel out of seventy which I have read.Spectator28 MAY 1936, Page 30http://archive.spectator.co.uk/articl...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with I'D Do It Again. To get started finding I'D Do It Again, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Publisher: MARTIN SECKER

Release: 1936

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Description: I'd Do It AgainFrank Tilsley (1936)"In the deperession of the thirties, low wages and their only legitimate alternative, the dole, were no basis for marriage. This is the moral impasse which was defied by the young clerk of Frank Tilsley's story. For, desiring only a decent home, which was to him a necessity, he resorted to petty theft, with the conscious conviction that 'Honesty isn't a virtue. It's a luxury'."Spectator - 28 MAY 1936BOOKS with lower-class heroes are often distorted by snobbery, (witness in their very different ways Mr. Vells and D. H. Lawrence). Mr. Frank Tilsley's hero, who speaks in the first person, does not suffer from this. In spite of his first person he is palpably, and all the time; a human being and not a faulty gramophone record which jams on a catchword. This hero is a clerk who earns three pounds a week and is in love with his wife. These two conditions being incompatible, his love for his wife wins. Ile asks his odious employer for a two-pound rise, does not get it, and calmly decides to make enough periodical thefts from the firm to bring his income up to the five pounds A week which he thinks he deserves. He steals Ingeniously, so that there is only a chance in a thousand of detection, but the odd chances tend to turn up ; this makes the book a good deal more exciting than the average detective novel. Apart from excitement, I would say that this book had sociological interest were it not that one thinks of sociology as a kind of foul sauce poured over a story in pints and killing all flavours.- Mr. Tilsley has the knack of making commonplace detail interesting. This is because, as in Defoe, the detail is in the first place interesting to the characters of the book themselves and is not stuck on in an academic attempt- at -objectivity. Hence our pleasure in learning how the clerk has to move his kettle sideways to get it under the bathtap, how he lays out his suburban garden and builds a shed with four-inch posts, how he cheats on the Underground and economises over his lunch 'and the tutiourit his wife's clothes cost. His thoughts and reactions are throughout_ in chanuter, whether he is being sensual, hard-headed, contemplative or lyrical. Such a clerk successfully cheating such ifti mould indeed be one of the few people in our world with a right to be lyrical. This is about the best novel out of seventy which I have read.Spectator28 MAY 1936, Page 30http://archive.spectator.co.uk/articl...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with I'D Do It Again. To get started finding I'D Do It Again, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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