Britská literatura
Fowles, John. The Collector.
Summary
The butterfly collector, Frederick Clegg, an ordinary young man around 30, wins in a lottery. He sends his aunt, by whom he has grown up, to Australy together with her invalid daughter. They should...
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Galloway, Janice. "Not Flu".
Summary
- an investigation into the relationship of Rachel and Peter
- Peter invites a Dutch friend to their home to practise the language
- Rachel fails not only in communication with the Dutchman because she...
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Galloway, Janice. "Someone Had To"
Summary
- a desperate account of the uncle Frank in the role of a father to the problematic child Kimberley and probably a partner to her mother Linda
- the child gets out of control, ceases communicating and...
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Galloway, Janice. "Valentine".
Summary
- a woman protagonist's account of an embarassing Valentine day with her partner
- the woman does not like the fuss about Valentine and fails to enjoy the atmosphere
- she is nervous so that her...
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Galsworthy, John. The Patrician.
Summary
The family of the Valleys, an ancient noble stock of landowners, is disturbed to learn about the relationship of their son Miltoun with Mrs Audrey Noel, a supposedly divorced woman. The family...
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Gay, John. The Beggar's Opera.
Historical Background
(by Bryan Loughrey and T. O. Treadwell)
Slums: At Gay's time London society was radically divided between the extremes of poverty and wealth. In the early part of the eighteenth century...
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Gibbon, Lewis Grassic. Sunset Song.
"Prelude: The Unfurrowed Field"
Summary
- the rise and fall, due to historical political conflicts, of the Kinraddie land from middle ages to 1911
- the individual idiosyncratic tenants of the nine...
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Goldsmith, Oliver. The Vicar of Wakefield.
Summary
The Family of Wakefield: The author prefaces the novel with an "Advertisement" pointing out that the protagonist possesses the three best qualities in a man: that is being a priest, a husband, and a...
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Gray, Alasdair. Lanark.
Summary
"Book Three"
Lanark spends a month going to the café Elite, sitting alone at the balcony and watching in vain for the sun to appear. He then joins one of the cliques in the café, the one centered...
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Greene, Graham. "The Destructors".
Summary
- the children gang: the original leader Blackie replaced by the mysterious Trevor (15) called T. for his funny name; met at the site of the last bomb of the 1st blitz, now a car-park,...
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Hardy, Thomas. "During Wind and Rain".
Summary
- general description of an unspecific family's progress from life to death
- the family sings songs, keeps their garden, builds a garden seat, changes to a new house, etc.
- spend their lives by...
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Hardy, Thomas. "Hap".
Summary
- the speaker expresses his profound sense of general unfulfilment, emptiness, and meaninglessness
- contrasts two opposing situations: a graphic and brutal description of a malevolent God punishing...
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Hardy, Thomas. "Neutral Tones".
Summary
- set in a bleak and barren winter landscape with a pond, "white sun", and grey leaves
- the sterile setting = the end of the relationship by meaningless phrases, feelings of bitterness, and...
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Hardy, Thomas. "The Darkling Thrush".
Summary
- the lonely speaker finds himself in a completely desolate winter landscape at twilight: no colours (except for grey), no people or animals, no moon or stars
- the interrupting old thrush is the...
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Hardy, Thomas. "The Man he Killed".
Summary
- the speaker muses about the unexplainable irony in the nature of war
- contrasts two situations: the meeting with a stranger in a pub results in a friendly talk x the meeting with the same man...
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