Some Thoughts on a Forgotten Classic: ‘This is the Schoolroom’ by Nicholas Monsarrat.
I have just finished reading Nicholas Monsarrat’s ‘This is the Schoolroom.’ It’s just under 450 pages long in the version I read – no short
I have just finished reading Nicholas Monsarrat’s ‘This is the Schoolroom.’ It’s just under 450 pages long in the version I read – no short
I don’t know how much most authors base their characters on people they have known. I would guess that most combine various characteristics taken from
The literary critic Graham Handley writes of the difficulty of creating a character who is very good: ‘It is a strange but true fact that
Titles are always difficult to decide on. This is all the more of a challenge, as the conventional wisdom of innumerable writers websites says you
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Setting: Wuthering Heights, the dining room . The table is laid for three. Joseph clumps about in his heavy boots, slopping unappetising looking porridge into
Setting: Wuthering Heights: Heathcliff and Arthur Huntingdon now sit at the table in the great room with the ‘houseplace’ and the great fire, decidedly the
I finished re-reading Anne Bronte’s ‘The Tenant of Wildfell Hall’ yesterday. My impressions of it hadn’t radically changed that much since I first read it
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