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Five of the Best - Sir Richard Eyre

Catcher in the Rye by J D Salinger

Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

Sons and Lovers by D H Lawrence

Down with Skool! by Geoffrey Willans (author) with illustrations by Ronald Searle

Faber Book of Modern Verse ed. Michael Roberts published 1936

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Close Reading

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

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The enormous room on the ground floor faced towards the north.Ìý Cold for all the summer beyond the panes, for all the tropical heat of the room itself, a harsh thin light glared through the windows, hungrily seeking some draped lay figure, some pallid shape of academic goose-flesh, but finding only the glass and nickel and bleakly shining porcelain of a laboratory.Ìý Wintriness responded to wintriness.Ìý The overalls of the workers were white, their hands gloved with a pale corpse-coloured rubber.Ìý The light was frozen, dead, a ghost.Ìý Only from the yellow barrels of the microscopes did it borrow a certain rich and living substance, lying along the polished tubes like butter, streak after luscious streak in long recession down the work tables.

‘And this,’ said the Director opening the door, ‘is the Fertilizing Room.’