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Hugo Charteris

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Description:'In the four novels that he has published in the last ten years Hugo Charteris has established himself as one of the best comic and one of the most impressive serious writers to emerge since the war. His last novel, The Lifeline, was praised for its wit and exuberance; his first, A Share of the World, won instant recognition (Evelyn Waugh selected it as the best first novel of the year) for its originality and power. As Elizabeth Bowen has written: "He is not only one of the most brilliant but one of the most incalculable of our post-war novelists."His new novel takes for its subject the strange, isolated life of a Detention Centre. It is almost a convention that such a theme should be treated exclusively from the prisoner's point of view. Here, however, the central character is the Warden, a man who is in his way as much of an odd man out as the boys in his charge. Although deeply attached to his wife and children, he feels himself to be a solitary; unable to obtain or even desire the satisfactions offered by the age he lives in, yet separated by a deep gulf from the traditions that shaped his life and once gave it meaning.As in all Mr. Charteris' work, comic or serious, the scenes and characters belong unmistakably to our own day. Only in the freshness and truth with which he evokes a landscape or describes a walk at night does he show himself as much a master of the unchanging world of nature as he is of contemporary humanity.' [from the front flap]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 Pictures on the Wall. To get started finding Pictures on the Wall, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 255

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Collins

Release: 1963

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Description: 'In the four novels that he has published in the last ten years Hugo Charteris has established himself as one of the best comic and one of the most impressive serious writers to emerge since the war. His last novel, The Lifeline, was praised for its wit and exuberance; his first, A Share of the World, won instant recognition (Evelyn Waugh selected it as the best first novel of the year) for its originality and power. As Elizabeth Bowen has written: "He is not only one of the most brilliant but one of the most incalculable of our post-war novelists."His new novel takes for its subject the strange, isolated life of a Detention Centre. It is almost a convention that such a theme should be treated exclusively from the prisoner's point of view. Here, however, the central character is the Warden, a man who is in his way as much of an odd man out as the boys in his charge. Although deeply attached to his wife and children, he feels himself to be a solitary; unable to obtain or even desire the satisfactions offered by the age he lives in, yet separated by a deep gulf from the traditions that shaped his life and once gave it meaning.As in all Mr. Charteris' work, comic or serious, the scenes and characters belong unmistakably to our own day. Only in the freshness and truth with which he evokes a landscape or describes a walk at night does he show himself as much a master of the unchanging world of nature as he is of contemporary humanity.' [from the front flap]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 Pictures on the Wall. To get started finding Pictures on the Wall, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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