Robin Jenkins (1) (1912–2005)
Auteur van The Cone-Gatherers
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Over de Auteur
Fotografie: Robin Jenkins, author of "The Cone-Gatherers" and "Dust on the Paw". Photo by Graham Clark
Werken van Robin Jenkins
The Expatriates 4 exemplaren
The tiger of gold 2 exemplaren
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Algemene kennis
- Officiële naam
- Jenkins, John Robin
- Geboortedatum
- 1912-09-11
- Overlijdensdatum
- 2005-02-24
- Geslacht
- male
- Nationaliteit
- UK
- Geboorteplaats
- Cambuslang, Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK
- Opleiding
- Hamilton Academy
Glasgow University - Beroepen
- schoolmaster
forester
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- 598
- Populariteit
- #42,016
- Waardering
- 3.9
- Besprekingen
- 16
- ISBNs
- 94
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- 1
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Charles Forbes is a middle-aged teacher in Glasgow. He's a well-meaning and kindly fool, mocked behind his back and protected at home by his tolerant wife Mary and his children Gillian and Alistair. And when he takes it into his head to Do a Good Deed for one of the slum children he teaches, he compares himself to the Good Samaritan.
His benevolent intentions are prompted by an essay by Tom Curdie. A bright child, whose academic ability transcends the appalling circumstances of his home life in the slums of Donaldson St, Tom has written a beautiful essay about the sea, and Mr Forbes is transfixed when Tom tells him that he has never seen the sea.
And from this scene the reader gets a first intimation of the complexity of this child character. When he says that he just made up his composition, and the disdainful class sneers at him like so many little Columbuses with the marvels and avarice of oceans in their eyes...he had lied. And he lied because he knew that they, and the teacher, were greedy for it. (p.2)
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