Quartermaine's Terms
By Simon Gray
1981
First Published
3.33
Average Rating
79
Number of Pages
Never has the celebrated author of Butley and Otherwise Engaged been more amusing and more touching than in this thoroughly delightful portrait of a mediocre but lovable English schoolteacher named St. John Quartermaine and his fellow faculty at a small school in Cambridge which teaches English to foreigners.|2 women, 5 men
Avg Rating
3.33
Number of Ratings
49
5 STARS
18%
4 STARS
18%
3 STARS
45%
2 STARS
14%
1 STARS
4%
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Author
Simon Gray
Author · 11 books
Librarian Note: There is more than one author by this name in the Goodreads database. Simon James Holliday Gray, CBE (21 October 1936 – 7 August 2008) was an English playwright and memoirist who also had a career as a university lecturer in English literature at Queen Mary, University of London, for 20 years. While teaching at Queen Mary, Gray began his writing career as a novelist in 1963 and, during the next 45 years, in addition to 5 published novels, wrote 40 original stage plays, screenplays, and screen adaptations of his own and others' works for stage, film, and television and became well known for the self-deprecating wit characteristic of several volumes of memoirs or diaries
