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Shakespeare’s words and phrases have become so familiar to us that it is sometimes with a start that we realize we have been speaking Shakespeare when we utter a cliché such as “one fell swoop” or “not a mouse stirring.” Never mind that many of the expressions we hear most often “to the manner born,” or from the same speech in Hamlet “more honored in the breach than the observance” are misapplied at ...
A House for Mr. Biswas” portrays through a series of homes he had and fairly brief life of a poor journalist turned civil servant in Port of Sapin, Trinidad, in the years before and after World War II. Born into an Indian family whose father worked in the sugar cane estates, Mr. Biswas, as he is called by the author from infancy on, becomes a sigh painter, and at the age of sixteen, is tricked into marrying Shama, the daughter of the large and powerful ...