JillA young man from Northern England struggles to find a sense of belonging at Oxford University during WWII in this “brilliant” novel by a literary icon (The Times). John, who’s never traveled far from his northern town of Huddleston, finds himself an undergraduate at Oxford University in 1940. A shy, insecure working-class young man, he is awed by his confident, careless roommate and yearns to fit in, clumsily pursuing a girl from a wealthy family. But as his efforts fail, he retreats further into a dream world in this early novel by Philip Larkin, who would go on to become one of the most celebrated poetic voices of postwar Britain. “Provides a revealing portrait of Oxford and the English class system as it existed during World War II . . . Mr. Larkin’s gift for using landscape as a mirror of an individual’s emotions is very much in evidence.” —The New York Times Includes an introduction by the author |
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... Street New York , NY 10012 Copyright © 1976 by Philip Larkin All rights reserved . No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means , electronic or mechanical , including photocopy , recording ...
... Street New York , NY 10012 Copyright © 1976 by Philip Larkin All rights reserved . No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means , electronic or mechanical , including photocopy , recording ...
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... Street between Naked and Unashamed and High-Heeled Yvonne. On looking through it again in 1963 I have made a number of minor deletions but have added nothing and rewritten nothing, with the exception of a word here and there, and the ...
... Street between Naked and Unashamed and High-Heeled Yvonne. On looking through it again in 1963 I have made a number of minor deletions but have added nothing and rewritten nothing, with the exception of a word here and there, and the ...
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... Street shop . Reginald Ashley Caton , mysterious and elusive proprietor of the Fortune Press throughout the Thirties and Forties , divided his publishing activity between poetry and what then passed for pornography , often of a ...
... Street shop . Reginald Ashley Caton , mysterious and elusive proprietor of the Fortune Press throughout the Thirties and Forties , divided his publishing activity between poetry and what then passed for pornography , often of a ...
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... Street, Huddlesford, Lancashire. He stamped it with a blue stamp. The room was quite silent apart from the flapping of the flame among the coals, and as he tried to sit reading the quietness rang in his ears, making him grow tense for ...
... Street, Huddlesford, Lancashire. He stamped it with a blue stamp. The room was quite silent apart from the flapping of the flame among the coals, and as he tried to sit reading the quietness rang in his ears, making him grow tense for ...
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... Street as far as the river and stood on the broad bridge . From there he could see trees on the river banks and the water running quickly under stone walls . Farther up , a swan plunged its neck deep into the weeds , and , lingering by ...
... Street as far as the river and stood on the broad bridge . From there he could see trees on the river banks and the water running quickly under stone walls . Farther up , a swan plunged its neck deep into the weeds , and , lingering by ...
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