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 Robert Westall Information
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 Robert Atkinson Westall (October 7, 1929 – April 15, 1993) is the author of many books, mostly fiction for children, though also for adults, and non-fiction. Many of his novels while supposedly aimed at a teenage audience deal with many complex,...
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Insurance Brokers' Monthly and Insurance Adviser Keelan Westall celebrates 30th
07/01/2006: 356 words, approx. 1 pages Commercial property insurance broker Keelan Westall enters its fourth decade in great shape, according to CEO Ashley Canning, with almost 100 employees and gross annual income of £30m, with ambition to grow to £70m by 2008 and become the UK's largest independent specialist commercial...
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 Critical Essay by Natalie Babbitt
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There are always problems with time travels which involve real histories, and The Devil on the Road does not escape them, though Westall handles the transitions with great subtlety and skill. But the writing is so charged and vigorous, the timing of the plot so carefully measured, that the customary difficulties are minimized. John Webster seems very real indeed, and likable; and even better, there is a young cat, deeply involved in the story and central to it, who is surely one of the best and most charmin... summary from source:
Critical Essay by R. Greggs
248 words, approx. 1 pages
Set in both today's England and Civil War England, [The Devil on the Road] describes the experiences of John Webster in each time period. The author attempts to develop the main character and to set the basis for the novel before he allows Webster to traipse back and forth in time. The results are useless…. What sustains the story is a fictionalized account of a witch hunt in Cromwell's England. Transported back to that era, Webster finds himself forced to decide whether to accept passi... summary from source:
Critical Essay by Margery Fisher
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At a first reading I felt that the historical sources for The Devil on the Road were too obtrusive in the narrative, but a second reading made the careful structure of the book and the skilful correlations of past with present a good deal more apparent. The infamous Witch-Finder General of the 1640's, Matthew Hopkins, and the sadistic false witness and greed he showed towards helpless victims in Suffolk, provide the basis for the story of a first-year student at London University who … is caug...
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