Fortnight’s anger / Roger Scruton
| dc.contributor | Gilliver, Peter Oxford Dictionaries Oxford University Press Oxford |
| dc.contributor.author | Scruton, Roger |
| dc.coverage.placeName | Manchester |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-07-27 |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2022-08-21T16:20:08Z |
| dc.date.available | 2022-08-21T16:20:08Z |
| dc.date.created | 1981 |
| dc.identifier | ota:0533 |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14106/0533 |
| dc.description.abstract | Resource deposited with the Oxford Text Archive. |
| dc.format.extent | Text data (1 file : ca. 537 KB) |
| dc.format.medium | Digital bitstream |
| dc.language | English |
| dc.language.iso | eng |
| dc.publisher | University of Oxford |
| dc.relation.ispartof | Oxford Text Archive Legacy Collection |
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| dc.rights.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14106/licence-ota |
| dc.rights.label | ACA |
| dc.subject.lcsh | English fiction -- 20th century |
| dc.subject.other | Novels |
| dc.title | Fortnight’s anger / Roger Scruton |
| dc.type | Text |
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| branding | Oxford Text Archive |
| files.size | 549316 |
| files.count | 1 |
| otaterms.date.range | 1900-1999 |
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Chapter One KENNETH FORTNIGHT felt that he was dedicating himself, not to his mother's death, but to the Kid's. It was his mission, every- thing that had, by right or stealth, come down to him. Yet he loved the Kid, just as he loved in a queer way the whole arrangement that had thrown them together in that house, where he was always escaping, always returning, always lingering or moving on. The mission began with the Kid's illness: he was seven at the time, and Kenneth fourteen. The Kid did not consult his brother, but took on complete responsibility for his derangements. He went alone to the headmaster of St Stephen's School to complain of the throbbing in Kenneth's head. He took it upon himself to upset the house-warming party by appearing in pyjamas and firing the Colonel's Colt 45 at the claret jugs. No one responded; he adopted more radical methods. Lord Gilroy came to dinner: the Kid asked him whether his ancestors were distinguished by anything other than treason to the King and . . .
