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The Haunting of Chas McGill and Other Stories Study Guide

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by Robert Westall
About 12 pages (3,703 words)
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Literary Qualities

One of the most impressive aspects of Westall's work as a whole and of this collection in particular is the variety both of story type and character.

Early in his career, Westall was often thought to be primarily a realist because of the success of his World War II realistic novel The Machine-Gunners.

If anything, however, Westall has made an even greater impact in the world of fantasy writing. He returned to World War II as a setting regularly over the years, but even those stories have not always been realistic. The Promise, for instance, uses the World War II setting as the backdrop for a ghostly love story. Even within fantasy, however, Westall's work is amazingly varied.

The stories in this collection, as do his novels, explore the realms of time travel,.....

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The Haunting of Chas McGill and Other Stories from Beacham's Encyclopedia of Popular Fiction and Beacham's Guide to Literature for Young Adults. ©2005-2006 Thomson Gale, a part of the Thomson Corporation. All rights reserved.



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