Pamela Hansford Johnson is one of the most successful and acclaimed novelists of our time.
Johnson's works, with which the present generation seems more particularly delighted, are such as true life in its true state, diverified only by accidents that daily happen in the world, and influenced by passions and qualities which are really to be found in conversing with mankind.
The task of our present writers is very different. It requires, together, with that learning which is to be gained from books, that experience which can never be attained by solitary diligence, but must arise from general converse and accurate observation of the living world.
In the Pamela Johnson's novels, every transaction and sentiment was so remote from all that passes among men, that the reader was in very little danger of making any applications himself. The novels were equally beyond sphere of activity and she amused herself with heroes and with traitors, deliverers and persecutors, as with beings of another species, whose actions were regulated upon motives of her own.
Her last novel was "The Holiday Friend". And earlier this year the appearance of "A Summer to Decide" completed the reissue of her classic Helena trilogy. In 1974 Macmillan published her widely praised "Important to Me: Personalia".
In this work we must consider the main idea of the novel of Pamela Hansford Johnson "The Good Listener". It will be the aim of our work.
The task of the work is the main problem of this novel; and so characters of main heroes. We must uncover the main problem, describe and judge.
The topic, attached in the novel, is quite rare - the author tells about the life of English youth, their problems in association of democratic society formation in the country. Pamela Hansford Johnson regards development of her heroes in conditions of some kind of "social epoch" chan
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