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The war has scarcely touched Otterbury, apart from one bomb which destroyed a few buildings near the centre, the site now known locally as "the incident" of the book's title. This is used for war-games by rival gangs from the local King's School.
The Otterbury Incident is a drily humorous tale of a group of schoolchildren in a small English town who must deal with some rather unsavory characters on their own, despite all the adults hurrying about. C. Day Lewis, a professor of poetry at Oxford, has a deft, understated way with words.
8 de ene. de 2023 · the otterbury incident. by. c. day lweis. Publication date. 1948. Publisher. penguin books, ltd. Collection. inlibrary; printdisabled; internetarchivebooks.
6 de jul. de 2017 · Books. The Otterbury Incident. C. Day Lewis. Penguin UK, Jul 6, 2017 - Juvenile Fiction - 240 pages. A reissue of a much-loved adventure which has stood the test of time and is as exciting...
The Otterbury Incident. Cecil Day Lewis. Putnam, 1948 - Children's stories, English - 148 pages. When a schoolboy kicks a football through the heasmaster's window, his friends decide to help...
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Cecil Day-Lewis, often written as C. Day-Lewis, was an Anglo-Irish poet and Poet Laureate from 1968 until his death in 1972. He also wrote mystery stories under the pseudonym of Nicholas Blake, most of which feature the fictional detective Nigel Strangeways. During World War II, Day-Lewis worked as a publications editor in the Ministry of Information for the U.K. government, and also served in ...
