Aids to Reading
F we think we are too busy to read many of the great or famous English books, radio versions do much to cvercome.our inertia. These BBC features are very well done down to the last detail. Take, for example, the slow dignified tones of the organ which over the past few weeks have ushered in that difficult man Mr. Crawley in 3YC’s presentation of The Last Chronicle of Barset. It was impossible, though, not to. wonder how a modern book with a similar theme would be received in our own country, remembering the Bishop, the Archdeacon and Mr. Thumble. It is also obvious that in being critical of the assumptions of any group in the community the novel written for a large population is more easily accepted because each person sees everyone but himself in the novel, whereas in the small country each person is forced to the conclusion that either he himself, or someone very like him, is being held up for examination.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 718, 17 April 1953, Page 10
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167Aids to Reading New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 718, 17 April 1953, Page 10
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