Summary and reviews of Engleby by Sebastian Faulks.
Faulks' first novel since the extraordinary success of Birdsong is written with the same passion, power and breadth of vision. Set in England and France during the darkest days of World War II, Charlotte Gray, like Birdsong, depicts a complex love affair that is both shaped and thwarted by war.
The author of Birdsong and Engleby also claimed that, compared to the Bible, the Islamic holy scripture is 'barren'. Faulks, who turned to the Koran while researching his latest novel, said: 'It.
ESSAYS ON ENGLEBY Sebastian Faulks's ambitious new novel, Engelby, probes the wayward mind of a Cambridge student in the s.
Faulks is a master of dark humour, coupled with throwaway dry, wry comments. What you get is tightly-woven and impeccable storytelling where nothing is quite as it seems. On the surface ENGLEBY is a clever character study of an enigmatic character who never quite fits in anywhere he goes.
Faulks' first novel since the extraordinary success of Birdsong is written with the same passion, power and breadth of vision. Set in England and France during the darkest days of World War II, Charlotte Gray, like Birdsong, depicts a complex love affair that is both shaped and thwarted by war. It is 1942.
Mike Engleby says things that others dare not even think. When the novel opens in the 1970s, he is a university student, having survived a 'traditional' school. A man devoid of scruple or self-pity, Engleby provides a disarmingly frank account of English education. Yet beneath the disturbing surface of his observations lies an unfolding mystery of gripping power. One of his contemporaries.
FreeBookNotes found 7 important quotes from 5 key chapters of Engleby by Sebastian Faulks. For your reference, we provided these Engleby quotes with page numbers using the following version of the book: Engleby, Random House LLC, 2008 (342 pages).