Uzbekistan state university of world languages english language faculty №2 Course paper Theme: Sid Chaplin his life and work

party and some of the leaders, such as Kazens, are honest with their duties and
understand the interests of the country. It was they who held the resolution on nuclear disarmament of great Britain a conference in Scarborough in 1960, contrary to the opportunist right wing of the party, led by the recently deceased Gateskall. But formany, labor is just a means of pushing into the “feeding trough”. This includes Uncle George, a genuine “Western slave of democracy”. No wonder Arthur fails again in his search for work. But maybe he will be able
to achieve something at least in his personal life? But Arthur’s two years of youth is the story of an endless search for something reliable, loyal, truthful, something to which on could “stick with one’s heart”. And he finds only dirt, venality and cruelty. There is no one to help Arthur: in life, he meets only such lonely losers as himself.
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Sid Chaplin worked at the Dean and Chapter Colliery in Ferryhill until 1948 when he was offered a post as a writer on the National Coal Board's publication Coal. In 1957 he was offered a new post as Public Relations Officer for the National Coal Board. His early writing career was established by publication during the Second World War of poems and stories in contemporary literary magazines, principally Penguin New Writing.
Sid Chaplin’s first book was a collection of short stories, The Leaping Lad (1946), which won an Atlantic Award for Literature in 1946. This was shortly followed by Chaplin’s first novels My Fate Cries Out (1949) and The Thin Seam (1950). In 1960 he published the novel The Big Room, followed by two critically acclaimed novels about working class life in the city by the Tyne, The Day Of The Sardine (1961) and The Watchers And The Watched (1962). The novels Sam In The Morning (1965) and The Mines Of Alabaster (1972) followed, and in the early 70s two books of essays based on weekly columns written for The Guardian in the 1960s, The Smell Of Sunday Dinner and A Tree With Rosy Apples.
Towards the end of his life, Sid Chaplin wrote two final books of short stories, On Christmas Day In The Morning (1978) and The Bachelor Uncle (1980). In the 1970s he contributed to the successful BBC drama When The Boat Comes In and the series Funny Man for Thames Television and The Paper Lads for Tyne Tees Television. Sid Chaplin was a regular and accomplished broadcaster and was a contributor to local and national newspapers and other publications throughout his life.