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Philip Oakes
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Philip Barlow Oakes (31 January 1928 – 18 December 2005) was a British journalist, poet and novelist.
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Education raged through my family like strong drink. It was the key to success, synonymous with respectability and clean living.
"At the Orphanage", in The Spectator, vol. 201, no. 6,808 (19 December 1958), p. 884
A splendid work of imagination... His vision is true, sad and superbly conveyed.
Review of The Inheritors in Truth (1955) by William Golding, quoted in John Carey, William Golding: The Man who Wrote Lord of the Flies (London: Faber and Faber, 2009; 2010), p. 185
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