Engleby - Sebastian Faulks
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Title: Engleby
Author: Sebastian Faulks
Publisher: Vintage Books
Year: 2008
Number of pages: 342
ISBN: 9780099458272
Synopsis: Sebastian Faulks is the author of seven previous novels, includingBirdsong(1993),The Girl at the Lion d￢ﾀﾙOr(1989),Charlotte Gray(1998),On Green Dolphin Street(2001) andHuman Traces(2005). He is also the author of a biographical study,The Fatal Englishman(1996).From the Hardcover edition.OneMy name is Mike Engleby, and I￢ﾀﾙm in my second year at an ancient university. My college was founded in 1662, which means it￢ﾀﾙs viewed here as modern. Its chapel was designed by Hawksmoor, or possibly Wren; its gardens were laid out by someone else whose name is familiar. The choir stalls were carved by the only woodcarver you￢ﾀﾙve ever heard of. The captain of the Boat Club won a gold medal at an international games last year. (I think he ￢ﾀﾙs studying physical education.) The captain of cricket has played for Pakistan, though he talks like the Prince of Wales. The teachers, or ￢ﾀﾘdons￢ﾀﾙ, include three university professors, one of whom was on the radio recently talking about lizards. He￢ﾀﾙs known as the Iguanodon.Tonight I won￢ﾀﾙt study in my room because there￢ﾀﾙs the weekly meeting of the Folk Club. Almost all the boys in my college go to this, not for the music, though it￢ﾀﾙs normally quite good, but because lots of girl students come here for the evening. The only boys who don￢ﾀﾙt go are those with a work compulsion, or the ones who think folk music died when Bob Dylan went electric.There￢ﾀﾙs someone I￢ﾀﾙve seen a few times, called Jennifer Arkland. I discovered her name because she stood for election to the committee of a society. On the posters, the candidates had small pictures of themselves and, under their names and colleges, a few personal details. Hers said: ￢ﾀﾘSecond-year History exhibitioner. Previously educated at Lymington High School and Sorbonne. Hobbies: music, dance, film-making, cooking. Would like to make the society more democratic with more women members and have more outings.￢ﾀﾙI￢ﾀﾙd seen her in the tea room of the University Library, where she was usually with two other girls from her college, a fat one called Molly and a severe dark one, whose name I hadn￢ﾀﾙt caught. There was often Steve from Christ￢ﾀﾙs or Dave from Jesus sniffing round them.I think I￢ﾀﾙll join this society of hers. It doesn￢ﾀﾙt matter what it￢ﾀﾙs for because they￢ﾀﾙre all the same. They￢ﾀﾙre all called something Soc, short for Society. Lab Soc, Lit Soc, Geog Soc. There ￢ﾀﾙs probably a knitting group called Sock Soc.I￢ﾀﾙll find out about Jen Soc, then go along so I can get to know her better.I won a prize to come to my college and it pays my fees; my family￢ﾀﾙs poor. I took a train from school one day after I￢ﾀﾙd sat the exams and had been called for interview. I must have stayed in London on the way, but I have no memory of it. My memory￢ﾀﾙs odd like that. I￢ﾀﾙm big on detail, but there are holes in the fabric. I do remember that I took a bus from the station, though I didn￢ﾀﾙt know then what my college looked like. I went round the whole city and ended up back at the station, having made the round trip. Then I took a taxi and had to borrow some money from the porter to pay for it. I still had a pound note in my wallet for emergencies.They gave me a key to a bedroom; it was in a courtyard that I reached by a tunnel under the road. I imagined what kind of student lived there normally. I pictured someone called Tony with a beard and a duffel coat. I tried really hard to like the room and the college that was going to be mine. I imagined bicycling off to lectures in the early morning with my books balanced on a rack over the back wheel. I￢ﾀﾙd be shouting out to the other guys, ￢ﾀﾘSee you there!￢ﾀﾙ I￢ﾀﾙd probably smoke a pipe. I￢ﾀﾙd also probably have a girlfriend ￢ﾀﾓ so
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