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The Dover Road is a three-act comedy by A. A. Milne, seen on Broadway in 1921–22 and in the West End in 1922–23. It depicts the dampening effect of close proximity on the ardour of eloping couples when they are forced into sustained exposure to each other's habits and idiosyncrasies.
Blackheath, five miles from the origin of the Dover Road, is the station on the road most immediately preceding Shooter’s Hill, about 3.25 miles back in the direction of London (Harper, “The Road to Dover”).
Charles Dickens. Track 2 on A Tale of Two Cities. 1 viewer 6.9K views. 10 Contributors. A Tale of Two Cities (Chap 1.2) Lyrics. The Mail. It was the Dover road that lay, on a Friday night late...
American Notes, indeed, contains a fascinating moment of autobiography that seems to confirm the overall hypothesis advanced here, that from childhood onwards Dickens thought in quasi-allegorical terms about life as a ‘progress’ along roads and paths (exemplified by the Dover Road) towards death.
Aug 17, 2012 · Anne and Leonard are eloping together, heading for the coast along the Dover Road. When they encounter car troubles, they find themselves seeking refuge at a house along the road where the inhabitants are strangely prepared for their arrival. It sounds like the beginning of a horror story but nothing could be farther from the truth.
The Dover Road features ‘a sort of hotel’, run by the mysterious and witty Mr Latimer, outside which Leonard and Anne find themselves when their car breaks down. They have no choice but to seek shelter, but it is almost immediately obvious that the hotel is unconventional, and that Latimer knows more about them than he should – he knows ...
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Jul 3, 2011 · For the Dover Road is actually the initial limb of the Watling Street: that prehistoric British trackway adopted by the Romans and by them engineered into a road; and it would seem that those Roman engineers, instructed by the Imperial authorities, considered rather the military and strategic needs of those times than those of Londinium; for ...
