This is the text of the original handwritten notes taken down by the late Professor Roy Holland in the course of attending the tutorials given by F.R. Leavis, while he was a student at Cambridge University studying for the English Tripos examinations (1954-1957). These notes comprise a rich vein of ore, of gems, or nuggets, for the scholar to pick up at will. Roy Holland attended Leavis's tutorials for about three days a week. They were held i...
This interview with Alan Paton by Roy Holland has never, until now, been published. The interview took place on June 19 and June 20, 1973, when Holland was a guest in Paton's home, Lintrose, at Bothas Hill, Kloof, Natal. It provides many insights into Paton's life, his political involvement as the founder of the Liberal party in South Africa, and his writings.
It was during his illness, in 1887, when Gauguin was 39 years old, that the battle dramatised in this play - a battle imagined in his body, and in his mind, and in his moral nature - could have taken place.
A young man in Birmingham, in the sixties, escapes the humdrum mundanity of life through fantasies, tries to find himself, and finally escapes his dead-end lifestyle by gaining a place at a university.
In this third book of the 'Jonathan Three', the experiences conveyed by the protagonist's stream-of-consciousness place the reader in the mind of the young man who eventually finds real love and meaning in a fulfilling relationship.
A hilarious evocation of life as a student at Cambridge University in the sixties, shortly after the time of such notable figures as F. R. Leavis, C.S. Lewis and E.M. Forster.
