Jill

Philip Larkin

• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Year: 2012
• eBook ISBN: 9780571268115
• Edition: 0
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Literature General
• Index: Literature

Michaelmas term, 1940. 18-year-old John Kemp has come down from Lancashire to Oxford University to begin his scholarship studying English. But when he invents an imaginary sister to win the attention of a rich but unreliable 'friend', and then falls in love for real, undergraduate life becomes its own strange, complex world .

'The best-loved English poet of the past 100 years.' Sunday Times
'Absolutely contemporary - perhaps even prophetic.' Joyce Carol Oates
'Remarkable . A book about innocence.' Simon Garfield
'A cryptic literary manifesto [about] discovering a literary personality, and the consolation art can provide.' Andrew Motion

Table of contents

• Landing Page
• Title Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• Introduction
• Note
• John Kemp sat in the corner of an empty compartment
• When the servant called them
• John saw little of Christopher the next morning
• John did not feel so happy the next morning
• The first thing John did after breakfast
• When he had finished it, it was a kind of short story
• But on reading it through a day later
• Two days after this, during which time John had seen no more of Jill
• For some reason this conversation gave John a sense of reprieve
• It seemed that the next few days passed quickly
• He did not wake up till after two
• Four days later John lay in bed with a fairly high temperature
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