![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Everyday he greets his students at the door before they come into class. Herr Silverman is Leonard's Holocaust class teacher. He and Leonard typically use famous quotes from Bogart films in conversation. Walt is a father figure to Leonard and spends a lot of time watching old films with him. Walt is an elderly man who first introduced Leonard to Humphrey Bogart's films. She is not very attentive to Leonard's needs and often leaves him at home alone, as his father left them. She is a fashion designer who spends most of her time in New York City with her boyfriend, Jean-Luc. On his birthday, Leonard has decided to kill his former friend, Asher Beal, and then take his own life. He has very few friends and spends most of his free time watching old Humphrey Bogart films with Walt. Leonard is eccentric and has trouble connecting with his peers. Leonard is the main character of this novel and the novel is told in his perspective on his eighteenth birthday. Leonard Peacock is an eighteen year old senior in high school. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() First edition identificationĬhapman & Hall published the First Edition, First Printing in London, 1870. ![]() Charles Dickens passed before the novel could be completed, leaving a tantalizing mystery that will never be solved. The fantastical story intrigues the reader with the darkness the opium dens within the sleepy cathedral town of Cloisterham, and the sinister double life of Choirmaster Jasper, whose drug-fuelled fantasy life belies his respectable appearance. Shortly afterwards, in the middle of a storm on Christmas Eve, Edwin disappears, leaving nothing behind but some personal belongings and the suspicion that his killer was his jealous uncle John Jasper, or a fellow orphan Neville, who were both madly in love with Rosa. ![]() As they come to age there is recognition that their love has been replaced by friendship, and the engagement is soon broken off. 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