Ebook {Epub PDF} The Otterbury Incident by C. Day-Lewis

The Otterbury Incident. by. Day Lewis, C. (Cecil), Publication date. Topics. Detective and mystery stories. Publisher. New York, Viking www.doorway.ru Interaction Count:  · 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/5(27). The writer, C. Day Lewis, has an elegant and understated way with words, which is understandable, seeing that he was a professor of poetry at Oxford. In this era of ebooks, The Otterbury Incident is a book that should be owned in hard copy. Your children will /5(29).

The Otterbury Incident by C. Day Lewis () It all begins when Nick breaks the classroom window with his football, and the Headmaster says Nick has to pay for the damage. Find many great new used options and get the best deals for The Otterbury Incident by C. Day Lewis (Paperback, ) at the best online prices at eBay! Free delivery for many products! Cecil Day-Lewis (father of actor Daniel Day-Lewis) was primarily a poet (and indeed was Poet Laureate from until his death in ) but he also wrote mystery stories under the pseudonym Nicholas Blake. He only ever wrote two books for children (the other is 's Dick Willoughby), but The Otterbury Incident is pitched perfectly for.

The writer, C. Day Lewis, has an elegant and understated way with words, which is understandable, seeing that he was a professor of poetry at Oxford. In this era of ebooks, The Otterbury Incident is a book that should be owned in hard copy. Your children will enjoy it and adults, if not too thick-witted, will enjoy it as well. by Benjamin Bisset. I’ve just finished reading The Otterbury Incident by Cecil Day-Lewis. I don’t think I’d heard of the author before someone at work recommended and lent me the book, but he was Poet Laureate from until his death in ’72, and he also wrote under the pseudonym of Nicholas Blake. The Otterbury Incident was published in , and is set in a small town in England shortly after the Second World War, written from the perspective of a schoolboy named George. The Otterbury Incident is a novel for children by Cecil Day-Lewis first published in the UK in with illustrations by Edward Ardizzone, and in the USA in Day-Lewis's second and final children's book, the novel is an adaptation of a French screenplay, Nous les gosses (Us Kids), that was filmed in