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|  | | Barfield School A young French teacher dreams of wiping the slate of his past and present clean by escaping to a new life in France.
'Would this loathsome creature which had poisoned his past and was now infecting the present leave its slimy traces on his future?'
Disappointing academic results, an unfortunate first love and a negative first job experience all go to make Michael Morgan deeply disillusioned with the path his life has taken. He decides to train to be a French teacher. But at home the atmosphere is vitiated, his work becomes tedious, and his disastrous management of relations with two female colleagues leads to disturbing repercussions. And then tragedy strikes. He longs to wipe the slate of his pas | |  | | Barry's Frenglish Folies A potpourri of serious, humorous and seriously humorous reflections on the French and English viewed through the eyes of a split-identity and occasionally demented Frenglishman.
Dreaming of moving to France? Planning to spend a holiday there? Or would you simply like to know more about French customs and lifestyle? In this book you'll find more than 100 articles to help you understand the French. They're based on the author's own experiences, observations (and mistakes) during more than 4( years of cohabitation.
| |  | | François Théodore Thistlethwaite's FRENGLISH THOUGHTS A seriously humorous (or humorously serious) look at the French, the English and living here below through the eyes of a split-identity 'Frenglishman'.
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