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Eric Birling is the son of Arthur and Sybil Birling and the younger brother of Sheila. Eric is presented as a "Jack the Lad" character with a drinking habit, who forced himself on Eva and made her pregnant. He is distanced from the rest of the family and feels he cannot talk to them about his problems.
Room 13 is a Gothic-horror children's novel written by the acclaimed award-winning children's author Robert Swindells. Published in 1989, it was awarded the Red House Children's Book Award . [ 2 ] The novel centres around a group of friends on a school trip, who stay in a creepy guest house on Whitby's West Cliff.
On "Birling Day", the crew toady to Birling in the hope that he will give them all large tips. Every Birling Day, Douglas attempts to steal the prized 25-year-old Talisker single malt whisky intended for Mr Birling and sell it on while Carolyn and the rest of the crew try to stop him. In addition, Douglas and Martin, despite their personal ...
The annual "Birling Day" is always accompanied by Douglas trying to steal the expensive 25-year-old Talisker single malt whisky intended for Mr Birling. In the third and fourth series, the crew encounter Gordon Shappey ( Timothy West ), who is Carolyn's ex-husband, Arthur's father, a very shady scrap merchant , businessman, pilot, and Gerti's ...
Mr. Britling Sees It Through tells the story of a renowned writer, Mr. Britling, a protagonist who is quite evidently an alter ego of the author. The garrulous, easy-going Mr. Britling lives with family and friends in the fictional village of Matching's Easy, located in the county of Essex, northeast of London. The novel is divided into three ...
Eva has poisoned herself. She left a diary. Eva was one of Mr Birling's workers in his factory. In a flashback to 1910, Eva is seen working in the machine shop in his factory. She goes with a group of women to demand a pay increase from 22/6 to 25/- per week. Birling refuses and tells them to find another job if they are unhappy.
This Property Is Condemned is a 1966 American drama film directed by Sydney Pollack and starring Natalie Wood, Robert Redford, Kate Reid, Charles Bronson, Robert Blake and Mary Badham. The screenplay, inspired by the 1946 one-act play of the same name by Tennessee Williams , was written by Francis Ford Coppola , Fred Coe and Edith Sommer .
Come Rack! Come Rope! is a historical novel published in 1912 by the English priest and writer Robert Hugh Benson (1871–1914), a convert to Catholicism from Anglicanism.Set in Derbyshire at the time of the Elizabethan persecution of Catholics, when being or harbouring a priest was considered treason and was punishable with death, it tells the story of two young lovers who give up their ...