2. Alexander Baron
Alexander Baron (1917-1999) was a commanding author of post-war
London, renowned above all for The Lowlife, and also one of the most
compelling novelists of the infantry man's experience of the Second
World War. His first novel, From the City, From the Plough, sold
massively on its publication in 1948. It was based on his own war
service, fighting across France from the Normandy D-Day beaches, and
won acclaim for depicting both the boredom and the brutality of the
battlefield, and for its account of the strong sense of camaraderie
among those brought together by combat. Baron's London novels - and
click here for more about London in fiction - were similarly based
largely on personal experience and observation. The Lowlife harked
back to the street where he grew up on the cusp of Stoke Newington
and Dalston - Rosie Hogarth is a compassionate evocation of a working
class back street near Chapel Market in Islington - and King Dido, set
in the early years of last century, recalled visits to grandparents in
Spitalfields and Bethnal Green.
5. The Man Who Knew Too Much
Teacher’s Version
Onomatopoeic Words and Meaning
The naming of a thing or action by a vocal imitation of the sound
associated with it (as buzz, hiss) 2. : the use of words whose sound
suggests the sense.
Hiss – make a sound like a long’s
Ding - Dong – sound of bells striking again and again
Click – sight sharp sound as that of a key turning in lock
Boom – deep hollow resonant sound
