Critical Essay by Publishers Weekly
[In "Peace Breaks Out"] Pete Hallam—class of '37—returning to the Devon School in New Hampshire in the fall of 1945 as a teacher...
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Critical Essay by Peter S. Prescott
Despite several virtues—some good writing and good observations about how boys live at school—"Peace Breaks Out" suffers from its autho...
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Critical Essay by Dick Abrahamson
It has been twenty years since Knowles' classic A Separate Peace first appeared. Now the author returns to Devon, that same New Hampshire boys' school,...
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Critical Essay by M. Jean Greenlaw
Twenty-one years of real time have passed since John Knowles wrote his classic, A Separate Peace. Three years of novel time have passed with the emergence of the co...
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Critical Essay by The Virginia Quarterly Review
Knowles surely has been urged many times over the years to write a sequel to his most successful novel, the much admired A Separate Peace, set at the E...
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