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12 Novels Considered the “Greatest Book Ever Written”

John Rowe Townsend

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contribution to children’s literature

  • Lewis Carroll: Through the Looking-Glass
    In children’s literature: Contemporary times

    Such novels as John Rowe Townsend’s Gumble’s Yard (1961); Widdershins Crescent (1965); Pirate’s Island (1968); Eve Garnett’s Further Adventures of the Family from One End Street (1956); and Leila Berg’s Box for Benny (1958) represented a new realistic school, restrained in England, less so in the United States,…

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