... sustained that tradition. THE KAILYARD SCHOOL In the 1890s there was a flowering of the Scottish provincial novel in a highly sentimental and romanticised form which came to be known as the Kailyard School. The kailyard was the cabbage patch at the back of a village house, and it designates the small-town preoccupations with which the novelists dealt. Barrie's A Window in Thrums (1889), based on his home town of Kirriemuir in Angus (the Thrums of the title), remains the best known of this short-lived ... Man (1897), and The War of the Worlds (1898). Yet, though radical in his social vis...

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... 3 Line 10-13: The Power of the Enemy The Council has been given inconsistent reports on the number and the course of the Turks to invade Cyprus that the Duke doesn't feel safe because of the inconsistency although he has a basic idea of what is going to happen, he is frightened. "Nay, it is possible enough to judgment. I do not so secure me in the error, but the main article I do approve in fearful sense " Line 37 ... bring more bad. However, Brabantio doesn't let it go, hence everyone dies in the end. Line 219-226 - Written in Pro This part is written in prose and not in verse like the...

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