Leslie Paul

Leslie Allen Paul (30 April 1905 – 8 July 1985) was an Anglo-Irish writer and co-founder of the Woodcraft Folk. Quotes The Spire That Stayed out in the Cold (1964) "The Spire That Stayed out in the Cold", The Kenyon Review, vol. 26, no. 3 (Summer 1964) William Golding has as profound a sense of human wretchedness as any novelist living. There are moments of a poignancy almost beyond bearing in most of his novels. p. 568 One of the cliches of reviewing is still, "I could not put the book down." The Spire was a book I had to put down many times. Its tension was unbearable. It kept me awake at night, too. Golding's power to haunt the reader springs, it seems to me, not from the fine quality of the writing only but from the novel structures the author instinctively chooses. In these, the tensions between man and his potentially destructive environment are at least as high as the tensions between one man and another. One cannot read on without resting and releasing one's mind. Then again, the author himself writes at fever pitch and communicates his personal tensions. p. 570 External links Category:1905 births Category:1985 deaths