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 · Waugh, Alec, Title: The Loom of Youth Language: English: LoC Class: PR: Language and Literatures: English literature: Subject: Boarding schools -- England -- Fiction Category: Text: EBook-No. Release Date: : Copyright Status: Public domain in the USA. Downloads: 81 downloads in the last 30 days. Price: $Author: Waugh, Alec,  · From his confusion and isolation, through rebellious school escapades and relationships with fellow students, Alec Waugh reveals his own deep criticism of a system forcing pupils to conform to flawed ideals, and the inevitable consequences of thrusting thirteen year old children and eighteen year old adolescents together.  · The Loom of Youth by Alec Waugh. Click here for the lowest price! Paperback, ,

Read "The Loom of Youth" by Alec Waugh available from Rakuten Kobo. First published in , this semi-autobiographical work tells the story of Gordon Caruthers' schooldays at the English. The Loom Of Youth|Alec Waugh, Das Werk Beethovens, Thematisch-Bibliographisches Verzeichnis seiner Saemtlichen Vollendeten Kompositionen.|George Kinsky, Combat Boots Reunions (Volume 2)|Tammy Godfrey, For the Good of the Order: Essays in Honor of Edward G. Holley (Foundations in Library and Information Science)|Delmus E. Williams. Biography. Waugh was born in London to Arthur Waugh and Catherine Charlotte Raban, and educated at Sherborne School, a public school in Dorset. The result of his experiences was his first, semi-autobiographical novel, The Loom of Youth (), in which he dramatised his schooldays. The book was inspired by Arnold Lunn's The Harrovians, published in and discussed at some length in The Loom.

Waugh was born in London to Arthur Waugh and Catherine Charlotte Raban, and educated at Sherborne School, a public school in Dorset. The result of his experiences was his first, semi-autobiographical novel, The Loom of Youth (), in which he dramatised his schooldays. The book was inspired by Arnold Lunn 's The Harrovians, published in and discussed at some length in The Loom of Youth. In a fit of nostalgia and rebellion, Alec wrote The Loom of Youth over two months in early when he was 17 1/2 years old and training with the Army O.T.C. The Loom of Youth was published by his father's firm in just as Alec was shipped to France in The Great War. (Happily, Arthur Waugh was a writer and publisher in his own right.). Unlike Tom Brown, The Loom of Youth contains several pointed criticisms of the public school system. It was controversial at the time for those criticisms, and also for Alec Waugh (older brother of the more famous Evelyn) wrote this semi-autobiographical novel about a fictional British public school over a six week period when he was 17 years old and doing military training during World War I.