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But this is no ordinary story. It tells the tale of an orphan girl wrenched from a life of luxury to live in a 'smuggler's den'. Marguerite's discovery of a family she never knew exsisted is a richly interwoven with schoolday escapades, childhood games and squabbles, the warmth of family love and the dawning realisation of hardships ahead.
Sheila Williams lives in St. Maarten in the Dutch Antilles and is also the author of Safety at Home in the Read Awhile series.
Key features:
Objectives at the beginning of each chapter aid planning, focus learning and confirm syllabus coverage
Key terms are highlighted to develop students vocabulary throughout the course
A wide variety of exercises develops students knowledge, application and ability in all areas of the syllabus
Worked solutions throughout the text provide students with easy-to-follow examples of new concepts
Graded excercises at the end of each section can be used to check students understanding and monitor progress
Checklists and at-a-glance summaries at the end of each chapter encourage students to review their understanding and go back over areas of weakness
Examination-style questions at the end of each module give students plenty of practice in the types of questions theyll meet in the examinations
Both devastating and funny, The Lonely Londoners is an unforgettable account of immigrant experience - and one of the great twentieth-century London novels. This Penguin Modern Classics edition includes an introduction by Susheila Nasta.
At Waterloo Station, hopeful new arrivals from the West Indies step off the boat train, ready to start afresh in 1950s London. There, homesick Moses Aloetta, who has already lived in the city for years, meets Henry 'Sir Galahad' Oliver and shows him the ropes. In this strange, cold and foggy city where the natives can be less than friendly at the sight of a black face, has Galahad met his Waterloo? But the irrepressible newcomer cannot be cast down. He and all the other lonely new Londoners - from shiftless Cap to Tolroy, whose family has descended on him from Jamaica - must try to create a new life for themselves. As pessimistic 'old veteran' Moses watches their attempts, they gradually learn to survive and come to love the heady excitements of London.
Sam Selvon (b. 1923) was born in San Fernando, Trinidad. In 1950 Selvon left Trinidad for the UK where after hard times of survival he established himself as a writer with A Brighter Sun (1952), An Island is a World (1955), The Lonely Londoners (1956), Ways of Sunlight (1957), Turn Again Tiger (1958), I Hear Thunder (1963), The Housing Lark (1965), The Plains of Caroni (1970), Moses Ascending (1975) and Moses Migrating (1983).
If you enjoyed The Lonely Londoners, you might like Jean Rhys's Voyage in the Dark or Shiva Naipaul's Fireflies, also available in Penguin Modern Classics.
'His Lonely Londoners has acquired a classics status since it appeared in 1956 as the definitive novel about London's West Indians'
Financial Times
'The unforgettable picaresque ... a vernacular comedy of pathos'
Guardian