211. London: People (Part 3)

“C.L.R. James obsessed about cricket and wrote a book called Beyond the Boundary, which is widely held to be not just the best book on cricket, but one of the best books on sport ever written.”

“James writes Beyond a Boundary, seen as one of the great books about sport, which explores cricket and the relationship of the Caribbean to Britain, and is a significant work of post-colonial literature.”

“At the end of the decade ends with him writing his masterpiece, Tom Jones. It's an absolutely uproarious, rambunctious, really fun book.”

“James ends up writing a very famous book called the Black Jacobins, about Toussaint Louverture and the revolution in Haiti, which is considered a definitive account of the Haitian revolution.”

“In a Kingsley Amis novel, the plot slightly revolves around the fact that the character, a thinly veiled version of Kingsley Amis, has been invited to Lisbon to deliver some sort of Henry Fielding lecture.”

“The big book of the day is a book called Pamela. Sort of a pistolry novel. One of the first, if not the first, novels in English.”

“Henry Fielding writes a spoof of it, a parody called Shamala. And that's very successful.”

“He does one about supposedly her cousin, doesn't he? Joseph Andrews.”