This Is The Schoolroom - Softcover

'A brilliant and deft storyteller'--Los Angeles Times

'A brilliant and deft storyteller'

'Nicholas Monsarrat's first great novel, the quintessential novel of its time and an indictment of an age, stands today as a modern classic.'

'A brilliant and deft storyteller', Los Angeles Times--Los Angeles Times

'Nicholas Monsarrat's first great novel, the quintessential novel of its time and an indictment of an age, stands today as a modern classic.', Los Angeles Times--Los Angeles Times

'A brilliant and deft storyteller'

, Los Angeles Times--Los Angeles Times

'Nicholas Monsarrat's first great novel, the quintessential novel of its time and an indictment of an age, stands today as a modern classic.'

, Los Angeles Times--Los Angeles Times

A brilliant and deft storyteller.--Los Angeles Times

Nicholas Monsarrat's first great novel, the quintessential novel of its time and an indictment of an age, stands today as a modern classic.--Los Angeles Times

The turbulent Thirties, and all across Europe cry the discordant voices of hunger and death, most notably in Spain, where a civil war threatens to destroy the country. Aspiring writer, Marcus Hendrycks, has toyed with life for twenty-one years. His illusions, developed within a safe, cloistered existence in Cambridge, are shattered forever when he joins the fight against the fascists and is exposed to a harsh reality. As the war takes hold, he discovers that life itself is the real schoolroom.