Hello All - this is one of my favourite ways of spending August Bank Holiday. Messages 4. the poem in question is 'How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix' (Robert Browning) but the question seems to be asking who "I" is. Does anyone know?
Not a contribution I'm afraid ... just to say that I was privileged to have William Golding as an English tutor during my time at Grammar School in the late 1950's.
I think the answer to War 4 is more likely to be He Fell Among Thieves by Sir Henry Newbolt.
With regard to Messages 4, Browning did not name the third and only rider to reach Aix. So the answer is The Narrator of How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix.
Message 3: Stella Bradshaw (An Awfully Big Adventure by Beryl Bainbridge)
Fraud 1: Augustus Melmotte (The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope)
Curses 5: V.S. Naipaul (A Half Life)
Injuries 1: Razumov ( Under Western Eyes by Joseph Conrad)
Injuries 4: The Siege of Krishnapur (J.G. Farrell)
Deaths 4: Anton Chekhov, Raymond Carver (Errand)
Hey All
War 5 is Owen Meaney in A Prayer For Owen Meaney by John Irving
Could Shops 2 be Winston Smith & Julia in Nineteen Eighty Four? Or is it way off? Will check it when I get home.