I'm already annoyed by this Vanity Fair adaptation.

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Originally Posted by Viva Prat Vegas

'Twas in Middle English
Given the book to read over the Summer Holidays in preparation for the start of A Level English Lit
Fretted over failing to comprehend the text whilst on a 2 week trip abroad and was then told in September that it didn't matter whether none of us had even looked at the book
Choc full of apostrophes, I seem to recall

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If you weren't taught the pronunciation, it was criminal to give you it to read, since you can't appreciate the meter and rhymes of the poetry without them. How to put kids off great literature in one easy lesson. :rolleyes:

Much better to give you the very accessible Neville Coghill translation first and then give you the original.

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Originally Posted by Burney

I think 'lives' may be pushing it. As that other underrated Victorian man of letters Chesterton put it:

"For there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen,
Before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green."

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Rests.

Not far from WH Smith and Winston Churchill's young child, ISTR. the latter was quite hard to find.

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Originally Posted by Ash

Rests.

Not far from WH Smith and Winston Churchill's young child, ISTR. the latter was quite hard to find.

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Funny name to give a kid.

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Originally Posted by WES

He's an ex-colonoial numpty, 71. Or 'rebel numpty' should you prefer. :nod:

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Right. We sorted you lot out at the Battle of Yorktown!

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Originally Posted by Burney

There would be if they did an adaptation today. Some of the characters would simply turn up as black as your boot and there'd be not a hint of an explanation of how they got to late 19th Century rural Oxfordshire or why none of the other characters ever makes any reference to their pigmentation.

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I was about to say above, fine to have a black person in the cast, just as long as every new character they met was completely shocked by their presence. I suspect this wasn't the case.