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Lucky Jim is considered the first British campus novel, setting a trend for fiction that satirises the quirks and policies of academic life. The narrative follows Jim Dixon, a lecturer at a provincial ...


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Swimming Chenango Lake by Charles Tomlinson

Winter will bar the swimmer soon.

    He reads the water’s autumnal hesitations

A wea...


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 Almost I can recall where I was born: 

The hot verandas where the chauffeurs drowse,

Backyard dominion of the raged thorn,

And nameless servants in ...


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