- Fiction, teachers, education in England, London (england), fiction
How a young Negro from British Guiana battled defiant teen-agers in London's slums, to teach them lessons of courtesy, and brotherhood, and human dignity.
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Earnest, classical in form, grave and resolved.
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- resolvedopen-ended
- intimateepic
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About the book
- Author
- Edward R. Braithwaite
- First published
- 2005
- Pages
- 192
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Editions
- 2
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780099483694
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First sentence
“THE CROWDED RED DOUBLE-DECKER BUS inched its way through the snarl of traffic in Aldgate.”
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