James Jones’s best-selling 1951 novel, which won the US National Book Award, drew on his wartime experience in the Hawaiian army base just before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour on 7 December 194 ...
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Emlyn Williams’s fame as a writer and actor rests on Night Must Fall, The Corn is Green and his impersonation of Charles Dickens giving readings from his novels The semi-autobiographical The Corn is G ...
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THE SERVANT (StudioCanal). This major 1963 film, a metaphor for British class-warfare, directed by Joseph Losey and scripted by Harold Pinter, is a key work, which arrived in the wake of the Profumo s ...
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For those who like a good ghost story Henry James’s chilling novella, published in 1898, is one of the very best. Oscar Wilde was greatly impressed by it and thought it “the most wonderful, lurid, poi ...
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