THE ENGLISH PATIENT

A STORY BY: MICHAEL ONDAATJE

FEATURING THE DESERT AS SETTING AND THE WAR AS BACKGROUND

The Prologue of The English Patient
Introducing the cast and characters that add spice to the novel
The Plot of The English Patient
The Desert - It's background infomation and characteristics
 World War II - It's historical battles that set the setting for the novel
3 Essays commenting on the Literary, Geographical and Historical aspects of the novel		 A Gamebook and Quiz to test your knowledge on the novel
Introducing the team C001323
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Our Sources and Credits
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The English Patient is an exquisite novel about love and confusion set at the end of the Second World War. In descriptive prose of spectacular beauty, Ondaatje invents a desert world that is both physical and imaginative. Against this allure of early twentieth-century desert exploration is the unfolding of the inextricably complicated relationship between Count Almásy and Katharine Clifton who are at once compulsively drawn towards each other and yet each is fiercely reluctant to surrender to each other. Such a manipulation of emotions is stoking at fire, the blaze of which brings about destruction and death.

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