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To sir, with love; with commentary and notes by R.B. Heath

This classic schoolroom drama of a black teacher in London's tough East End who triumphs over bigotry and ignorance to change the lives of his students forever was hailed by the New York Times as "a book that the reader devours quickly, ponders slowly, and forgets not at all"With opportunities for black men limited in post-World War II London, Rick Braithwaite, a former Royal Air Force pilot and Cambridge-educated engineer, accepts a teaching position that puts him in charge of a class of angry, unmotivated, bigoted white teenagers whom the system has mostly abandoned. When his efforts to reac.

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  • "To Sir With Love"
  • "To sir with love"
  • "To Sir, With Love"
  • "Guru taruva obayi"

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  • "This classic schoolroom drama of a black teacher in London's tough East End who triumphs over bigotry and ignorance to change the lives of his students forever was hailed by the New York Times as "a book that the reader devours quickly, ponders slowly, and forgets not at all"With opportunities for black men limited in post-World War II London, Rick Braithwaite, a former Royal Air Force pilot and Cambridge-educated engineer, accepts a teaching position that puts him in charge of a class of angry, unmotivated, bigoted white teenagers whom the system has mostly abandoned. When his efforts to reac."@en
  • "In this account of his experiences as a teacher shortly after the second world war, the author highlights the difficulties he encountered in his attempts to tame a class of unruly East End teenagers. As a black man, he had to overcome their prejudices."@en
  • "The author's experience as a teacher in the slums of London."@en
  • "A black teacher from British Guiana describes how he overcame the hostility and prejudices of his students in a London slum school."
  • "The story of a teacher who turned troubled kids around and taught them to learn and respect others."@en
  • "The author's experiences as a teacher in the slums of London."
  • "The author's experiences as a teacher in the slums of London."@en
  • "An apparently fictionalized account, based on the author's experiences as a teacher in the slums of London."@en
  • "In the late 1950's a black teacher (author E.R. Braithwaite) from British Guiana describes how he overcame the hostility and prejudices of his students in a London slum, instilling in them a belief in themselves and respect for one another."@en
  • "Novel Based on the author's experiences as a teacher in the slums of London."
  • "First published by the Bodley Head in 1959. Original Ace cover of 1961."@en
  • "Author's experiences as a teacher in the slums of London."@en
  • "Author's experiences as a teacher in the slums of London."
  • "A negro teacher takes a position at a difficult school in London's East End ; This title is also availble as a film___"
  • "Een werkloze zwarte ingenieur vindt een tijdelijke werkkring op een school in een Londense arbeiderswijk. Hij weigert om zich net als zijn voorganger te laten wegtreiteren en tracht het vertrouwen van de leerlingen te winnen."
  • ""Ricky Braithwaite, an ex-RAF fighter pilot and Cambridge graduate, arrives in London in 1948. Despite his First Class degree in electronic engineering he is turned down for job after job in his chosen profession and discovers the reality of life as a black man in post-war England. Taking the only job he can get, Ricky begins his first teaching post in a tough but progressive East End school. Supported by an enlightened headmaster, the determined teacher turns teenage rebelliousness into self-respect, contempt into consideration and hate into love, and on the way, Ricky himself learns that he has more in common with his students than he had realised."--Page [4] of cover."@en
  • "A black teacher from British Guiana describes how he overcame the hostility and prejudices of his students in a London slum."
  • "A black teacher from British Guiana describes how he overcame the hostility and prejudices of his students in a London slum."@en

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  • "Vertalingen (vorm)"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Drama"@en
  • "Large type books"@en
  • "Biography"
  • "Biography"@en
  • "Romans (teksten)"
  • "Autobiographical fiction"
  • "Autobiographical fiction"@en
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  • "Juvenile works"@en

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  • "Le chahut : roman"
  • "To sir, with love; with commentary and notes by R.B. Heath"@en
  • "To sir, with love[LP]"@en
  • "To Sir, with love : E.R. Braithwaite"@en
  • "To sir, with love. [An account of the author's experiences as a coloured schoolmaster teaching in the East End of London.]"@en
  • "TO SIR, WITH LOVE"
  • "Ṭū sara, vitha lavha : śāḷecyā dainandina jīvanāta kshaṇokshaṇī ghaḍāṇāryā nāṭyāvara ādhārita eka abhijāta sāhityakr̥tī, agadī yā kāḷāśīhī susaṅgata vāṭaṇārī, ājacyā ṭhaḷaka bātamyāitakīca!"
  • "To sir with love"
  • "To sir with love"@en
  • "To Sir, with love. [Reminiscences of a negro teacher in London.]"@en
  • "To Sir, with love. [Reminiscences of a negro teacher in London.]"
  • "En skole i London : (Overs. fra engelsk efter "To Sir, with love ")"@da
  • "To Sir, with love"@en
  • "To Sir, with love"
  • "To Sir, with Love"
  • "Xian gei lao shi de ai"
  • "Voor mijnheer- van ons allemaal"
  • "Ādaraṇīya gurutumani"
  • "Mit Liebe : Erlebnisroman um junge Menschen"
  • "To sir, with love"
  • "To sir, with love"@en
  • "To Sir, With Love"@en
  • "To Sir, With Love"
  • "En skole i London"@da
  • "En skole i London"
  • "To Sir : with love"@en
  • "Voor mijnheer - van ons allemaal"
  • "To Sir with love"@en
  • "To Sir with love"
  • "獻給老師的愛"
  • "Le chahut"
  • "Gurutaruva obayi"

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