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    Ways of Sunlight

    Sam Selvon

    From the author of The Lonely Londoners, a short story collection of life in mid-century Trinidad and London, told with Selvon's unique wit and poetic sensibility

    With equal humour, sorrow…

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    Calypso in London

    Sam Selvon

    Describing life in the Caribbean and day-to-day adventures in London, this collection features many of Sam Selvon's most acclaimed stories

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    The Lonely Londoners

    Sam Selvon

    London will do for you for now... And I will do for London.

    London, 1956. Newly arrived from Trinidad, Henry 'Sir Galahad' Oliver is impatient to start his new life…

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    The Lonely Londoners

    Sam Selvon

    At Waterloo Station, hopeful new arrivals from the West Indies step off the boat train, ready to start afresh in 1950s London. There, homesick Moses Aloetta, who has already lived…

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    Those Who Eat the Cascadura

    Sam Selvon

    I see trouble. Plenty trouble.

    The village obeahman Manko foresees trouble when an Englishman Garry Johnson comes to stay in the cacao estate of his friend Roger Franklin in Trinidad…

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    An Island Is a World

    Sam Selvon

    In the post-war Caribbean colony, as an earlier generation thinks of returning to India, Foster, a young man, goes to England and Rufus his brother leaves for the United States…

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    The Housing Lark

    Sam Selvon

    First published in Great Britain by MacGibbon & Kee, London, 1965; published in the United States by Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc., 1990 –Copyright page.

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    Acculturation in Sam Selvon’s The Lonely Londoners

    Stefan Hinterholzer

    Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1, University of Innsbruck (Department of English), course: New Ways of Writing Englishness…

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    Moses Ascending

    Sam Selvon

    Moses, a Trinidadian who has been in England for some years represents immigrants who come from all corners of the world to seek a better life. Like many immigrants he…

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    The Lonely Londoners

    Sam Selvon

    At Waterloo Station, hopeful new arrivals from the West Indies step off the boat train, ready to start afresh in 1950s London. There, homesick Moses Aloetta, who has already lived…

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    The Housing Lark

    Sam Selvon

    First published in Great Britain by MacGibbon & Kee, London, 1965; published in the United States by Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc., 1990 –Copyright page.

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    Into the London Fog: Eerie Tales from the Weird City

    Charlotte Riddell,Rhoda Broughton,Sam Selvon,Claude McKay

    As the fog thickens and the smoky dark sweeps across the capital, strange stories emerge from all over the city. Waiting in the shadowy streets are tales from writers such…

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