Hangover Square: A Story of Darkest Earl's Court (Penguin Modern Classics)

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Robinson, Judy (May 5, 2012). "George's 'bad boy' antics behind the scene" . Retrieved May 16, 2015. Nothing so benign occurs at the climax of Hangover Square. Published in 1941 and later hailed in the press as “one of the great books of the 20th century”, Hangover Square, like Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky, is written in a drolly detached style and explores the shabby crevices of London life and the dark, despairing alleys of the human heart. In series four Sara Cox talks to the guests about their favourite books as well as a new release and a ‘Big Jubilee Read’.

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Such was the novel's success that it was rapidly adapted for a film which was released in 1945. Starring Laird Cregar, Linda Darnell, and George Sanders, significant changes to the novel were made, most notably the plot's re-location to the Edwardian era. Hosted by the lovely Sara Cox, Between the Covers is shown on Tuesday nights on BBC2 and the episodes can also be found on BBC iPlayer.

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Whereas Orwell extrapolates from world events and envisages future torture chambers in Nineteen Eighty-Four, Hamilton achieves a queasy comedy of distress by showing that our capacity to torture each other needs no state intervention.

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Yes, obsession is an important theme in this one. Love that is gradually turned into something sinister and finally love as a fully blown obsession. Not just love/ hate type of relationship but the kind of obsession that can drive one mad, that is at its root is mad. Written in third person narration, it feels somewhat like a diary because there is so much focus put on the inner state of the protagonist. I wanted to call it a diary of obsession but I realized it is more than that. It is a diary of an individual, a diary that captures wonderfully all the awful desperation that is to be found in his soul. If I’m making it sound like a marvellously depressive read, it is because it really is. She sang, “I Love the Moon …” At the end of her song she said, “Thank you, Mr BBC. Good night and God bless you …” Miss Fields will leave for Capri today. It is expected …It’s possible, I suppose, to interpret Bone’s response to Chamberlain’s words as prompted by King Street (the CP headquarters) which, following the signing of the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact on 23rd August, took the line that the war against Hitler was an Imperialist one and should be ignored by Marxists. But in his biography, Nigel Jones says that Hamilton never accepted this line and was, for all his Communist sympathies, Churchillian in his patriotism. Not that Jones has anything to say about this moment. My own view is that Bone is understandably irked by Chamberlain’s routine piety. Anyway, by his double murder he has brought speedy destruction on the basically rotten life of which he had for too long been a part and which now requires his own death. For suddenly death is everywhere. Most readers (including yours truly) tend to sympathise with Bone, because deep down inside, he is a ‘nice guy’, while Netta is an evil femme fatale. Additionally, it’s a motif that repeats itself in many of Hamilton’s books and is heavily autobiographical, so obviously it’s presented in a way to make us feel sorry for Bone.