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Oxfam bookshop wallingford balliol college has existed as a community of scholars on its present site without interruption since aboutballiol men were prominent in the collection of humanist literature in the fifteenth century, and the college was notorious in the century after that for adherence to romeballiol blazed the trail in the early nineteenth century by introducing a competitive entrance examination, becoming a dominant influence throughout the british empire in victorian and edwardian timessee oxfam website for delivery information read morethe revised second edition has been brought up to in the extended epiloguethe college's sometime members include many poets and men of letters, heads of government, heads of state, and religious leadersthe second edition included new detail throughout, a greatly increased number of illustrations, and it brought coverage up to in an extended epiloguethe first edition () which used much fresh material and was revisionist in its conclusions, ended with the outbreak of war ineven the relative obscurity of the next two hundred years was occasionally illuminated by famous members such as john evelyn the diarist () and james stirling the mathematician ()by this token it is the oldest college in oxford or cambridge
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Leslie poles hartley () was born in whittlesey, cambridgeshire, and educated at harrow and balliol college, oxfordhartley's moving exploration of a young boy's loss of innocence the go-between is edited with an introduction and notes by douglas brooks-davies in penguin modern classicsoxfam bookshop hertford lif you enjoyed the go-between, you might like barry hines's a kestrel for a knave, also available in penguin modern classics'magical and disturbing'independent 'on a first reading, it is a beautifully wrought description of a small boy's loss of innocence long agohe becomes drawn deeper and deeper into their dangerous game of deceit and desire, until his role brings him to a shocking and premature revelationhis first book, night fears () was a collection of short stories; but it was not until the publication of eustace and hilda (), which won the james tait black prize, that hartley gained widespread recognition as an authorhis other novels include the go-between (), which was adapted into an internationally-successful film starring julie christie and alan bates, and the hireling (), the film version of which won the palme d'or at the cannes film festival'the past is a foreign country: they do things differently there'when one long, hot summer, young leo is staying with a school-friend at brandham hall, he begins to act as a messenger between ted, the farmer, and marian, the beautiful young woman up at the hallthe haunting story of a young boy's awakening into the secrets of the adult world, the go-between is also an unforgettable evocation of the boundaries of edwardian societybut, visited a second time, the knowledge of approaching, unavoidable tragedy makes it far more poignant and painful'express see oxfam website for delivery information read morefor more than thirty years from he was an indefatigable fiction reviewer for periodicals including the spectator and saturday review
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