At school, we had to listen to J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings being read. I never liked the book much. It was a bit unusual and strange with its epic themes somehow devoid of reality and a cast of strange characters of elves, hobbits, and conjurers. The Lord of the Rings is now […]
Based on Charles Dickens reportedly satirical novel about the poor and rich in Victorian society and one which is sympathetic towards the poor, which for me, was an agreeable sympathy, whatever the politics involved in Dicken’s treatise. It got me thinking. The mere presence of a ‘debtor’s prison’, for people who cannot afford to pay […]
