England, Their England

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It has already faded a lot in the six weeks since I read it, but the one large thing I am taking away from it is an introduction to the work of J. The village cricket match is the most celebrated episode in the novel, and a reason cited for its enduring appeal. I've worked on the land all my life, and the least I've ever earned is four and six a week and the most is twenty nine shillings. For younger bookworms – and nostalgic older ones too – there’s the Slightly Foxed Cubs series, in which we’ve reissued a number of classic nature and historical novels. To become a subscriber to Slightly Foxed: The Real Reader’s Quarterly Magazine, please visit our subscriptions page.

Given that Winchester was founded in 1382, 70 or 80 years does count as recent in terms of its history. The joy found in reading this book is heartfelt and merits being kept on hand for the gloomy time when one needs a lift of spirit, well done MacDonell. England, Their England by Archibald Gordon Macdonell is included among The 1,000 Novels Everyone Must Read https://www. He also glances disapprovingly at colonialism, both internal and external, as he berates a nation that has lost its sense of diplomatic purpose. He was a keen sportsman and a first-rate golfer, representing the Old Wykehamists on a number of occasions.The Hogarth Press where I’m working, is in the heart of the literary world, with authors coming in all the time. It's well known for the description of the village cricket match, and deservedly so, but there are plenty of other wonderful chapters: the country-house stay where an eccentric English friend of the hero "helps" him by ringing up and pretending to be various important people leaving messages for him with people who'll be impressed that he knows those important people, leading to conversations which poor Donald finds either incomprehensible or deeply embarrassing; the hotel fire, in which the English partygoers trapped on the roof behave with complete calm under the command of the Major-General; the fox-hunting chapter already mentioned; the episode at the League of Nations, an organization the author worked for at one time, where the English delegate gives speeches that are so careful to say nothing that they get attached to the wrong issues and nobody notices. Slightly Foxed introduces its readers to books that are no longer new and fashionable but have lasting appeal. I went to a school founded 5 years before I started there, so by the time I left I had witnessed half its history to that point, and the country I was born in was only founded in 1840, so it's hard to imagine what it would be like to go to a school with such a depth of history. Macdonell was a regular contributor to The Observer, and was also a well-known broadcaster for the BBC Empire Service.

Here you will find options to view and activate subscriptions, manage institutional settings and access options, access usage statistics, and more. G. Macdonell and you will usually get a blank look, though occasionally you get the response: ‘Oh yes, I’ve heard of England, Their England. Banished from his native Scotland by a curious clause in his father’s will, Donald Cameron moves to London and decides to conduct a study of the English people; a strange race who, he is told, have built an entire national identity around a reverence for team spirit and the memory of Lord Nelson . A lot of the time, he has no idea what is going on, what his English acquaintances are talking about, or why they are doing what they're doing, but he struggles on as best he can. Shakespeare Pollock sprang into the vortex with a last ear-splitting howl of victory and grabbed it off the seat of the wicket-keeper's trousers.I do think the English would enjoy this more than I did, particularly those with a sense of pride and nostalgia for a lost Olde England. Slightly Foxed brings back forgotten voices through its Slightly Foxed and Plain Foxed Editions, a series of beautifully produced little pocket hardback reissues of classic memoirs, all of them absorbing and highly individual. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Subversively, against this Macdonnell places “bright young things” who are still partying, still determinedly having fun as a reaction to the deaths of the Great War.