Jill
A 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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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
Jill
A 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
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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Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781590209622 |
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| Publisher: | The Overlook Press |
| Publication date: | 08/22/1984 |
| Sold by: | OPEN ROAD INTEGRATED - EBKS |
| Format: | eBook |
| Pages: | 256 |
| File size: | 1 MB |
| Age Range: | 18 Years |
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