Jill
Published on 15. November 2012
256 pages
978-0-571-26811-5 (ISBN)
Description
Michaelmas term, 1940. 18-year-old John Kemp has come down from Lancashire to Oxford University to begin his scholarship studying English. But when he invents an imaginary sister to win the attention of a rich but unreliable 'friend', and then falls in love for real, undergraduate life becomes its own strange, complex world .
'The best-loved English poet of the past 100 years.' Sunday Times
'Absolutely contemporary - perhaps even prophetic.' Joyce Carol Oates
'Remarkable . A book about innocence.' Simon Garfield
'A cryptic literary manifesto [about] discovering a literary personality, and the consolation art can provide.' Andrew Motion
'The best-loved English poet of the past 100 years.' Sunday Times
'Absolutely contemporary - perhaps even prophetic.' Joyce Carol Oates
'Remarkable . A book about innocence.' Simon Garfield
'A cryptic literary manifesto [about] discovering a literary personality, and the consolation art can provide.' Andrew Motion
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Edition
Main
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
File size
1,01 MB
ISBN-13
978-0-571-26811-5 (9780571268115)
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Philip Larkin was an English novelist, librarian and celebrated poet, who has been awarded numerous honours including the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry. Born in Coventry in 1922, he was educated at King Henry VIII School and Oxford University. His first book of poetry, The North Ship, was published in 1945, followed by The Less Deceived (1955), The Whitsun Weddings (1964) and High Windows (1974). He also wrote two novels, Jill (1946) and A Girl in Winter (1947), as well as two books of collected journalism: All What Jazz: A Record Library and Required Writing: Miscellaneous Prose. Larkin worked as a librarian at the University of Hull from 1955 until his death in 1985. In 2003, he was chosen as Britain's best-loved poet of the previous 50 years by a Poetry Book Society Survey, while in 2008, The Times named him Britain's greatest post-war writer. In 2016, a memorial was unveiled at Poet's Corner in Westminster Abbey.
Content
- Intro
- Landing Page
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Introduction
- Note
- John Kemp sat in the corner of an empty compartment
- When the servant called them
- John saw little of Christopher the next morning
- John did not feel so happy the next morning
- The first thing John did after breakfast
- When he had finished it, it was a kind of short story
- But on reading it through a day later
- Two days after this, during which time John had seen no more of Jill
- For some reason this conversation gave John a sense of reprieve
- It seemed that the next few days passed quickly
- He did not wake up till after two
- Four days later John lay in bed with a fairly high temperature
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