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Book of the Week: Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome

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Three Men in a Boat, published in 1889, is a humorous account by English writer Jerome K. Jerome of a boating holiday on the Thames between Kingston and Oxford.

The book was initially intended to be a serious travel guide with accounts of local history along the route, but the humorous elements took over to the point where the serious and somewhat sentimental passages seem out of place in the mostly comic novel. One of the most praised things about Three Men in a Boat is how current it seems to modern readers – the jokes seem fresh and witty even today.

The three men are based on Jerome himself and two real-life friends, George Wingrave and Carl Hentschel, with whom he often took boating trips. The dog, Montmorency, is entirely fictional but, as Jerome admits, “developed out of that area of inner consciousness which, in all Englishmen, contains an element of the dog.” The trip is a typical boating holiday of the time in a Thames camping skiff. This was just after commercial boat traffic on the Upper Thames had died out, replaced by the 1880s craze for boating as a leisure activity.

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Book of the Week: Franny And Zooey by J.D. Salinger

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Author: J.D. Salinger

ISBN: 9780241950449

Pages: 131

Publisher: Penguin Fiction

Synopsis:

Though brilliantly sunny, Saturday morning was overcoat weather again, not just topcoat weather, as it had been all week and as everyone had hoped it would stay for the big weekend- the weekend of the Yale game. Of the twenty-some young men who were waiting at the station for their dates to arrive on the ten- fifty-two, no more than six or seven were out on the cold, open platform. The rest were standing around in hatless, smoky little groups of twos and threes and fours inside the heated waiting room, talking in voices that, almost without exception, sounded collegiately dogmatic, as though each young man, in his strident, conversational turn, was clearing up, once and for all, some highly controversial issue, one that the outside, non-matriculating world had been bungling, provocatively or not, for centuries.

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Book of the Week: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

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1846- The Mississippi River, North America. Huck Finn is fourteen years old. He lives in the town of ST Petersburg. He lives in Mrs Douglas’ house. She is a kind woman. But Huck is not happy there. Everything in his life is boring. He does not want to go to school. He does not want to sleep in a soft bed every night. Then, one day, Huck’s father comes back to the town. He wants Huck’s money. He has been drinking whisky. He is very drunk. He hits Huck. He will kill me soon. Huck thinks. I must escape. I must leave ST Petersburg.

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Book of the Week: Pygmalion by Bernard Shaw

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Pygmalion both delighted and scandalized its first audiences in 1914. A brilliantly witty reworking of the classical tale of the sculptor who falls in love with his perfect female statue, it is also a barbed attack on the British class system and a statement of Shaw’s feminist views. In Shaw’s hands, the phoneticist Henry Higgins is the Pygmalion figure who believes he can transform Eliza Dolittle, a cockney flower girl, into a duchess at ease in polite society. The one thing he overlooks is that his creation has a mind of her own. This is the definitive text produced under the editorial supervision of Dan H.Laurence, with an illuminating introduction by Nicholas Grene, discussing the language and politics of the play. Also included in this volume is Shaw’s preface, as well as his sequel written for the first publication in 1916, to rebut public demand for a more conventionally romantic ending.

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Book of the Week: Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup

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An official tie-in edition of this eloquent and powerful slave narrative, to accompany Steve McQueen’s major new film starring Brad Pitt, Michael Fassbender, Benedict Cumberbatch, Paul Giamatti, Chiwetel Ejiofor and Quvenzhané Wallis.

Perhaps the best written of all the slave narratives, Twelve Years a Slave is a harrowing memoir about one of the darkest periods in American history. It recounts how Solomon Northup, born a free man in New York, was lured to Washington, D.C., in 1841 with the promise of fast money, then drugged and beaten and sold into slavery. He spent the next twelve years of his life in captivity on a Louisiana cotton plantation.

After his rescue, Northup published this exceptionally vivid and detailed account of slave life. It became an immediate bestseller and today is recognized for its unusual insight and eloquence as one of the very few portraits of American slavery produced by someone as educated as Solomon Northup, or by someone with the dual perspective of having been both a free man and a slave.

A moving, vital testament to one of slavery’s “many thousands gone” who retained his humanity in the bowels of degradation’ – Saturday Review.


Solomon Northup was a free man kidnapped into slavery in Washington, D.C. in 1841. Shortly after his escape, he published his memoirs to great acclaim and brought legal action against his
abductors, though they were never prosecuted. The details of his life thereafter are unknown, but he is believed to have died in Glen Falls, New York, around 1863.

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Book of the Week: The Time Machine by H.G. Wells

time-machine-400x400-imad9ghvguxhmvsqA chilling, prophetic take on mankind’s possible future, The Time Machine sees a Victorian scientist propelled into the year AD 802,701, where he is delighted to find that suffering has been replaced by beauty and contentment in the form of the eloi, an elfin species descended from man. But he soon realizes that they are simply remnats of a once-great culture – now weak and living in terror of the sinister Morlocks lurking in the deep tunnels, who threaten his very return. H.G. Wells defined much of modern science fiction with this 1895 tale of time travel, which questions humanity, society, and our place on Earth.

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