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     fiction

This page highlights some fictional accounts of bullying, albeit often drawn closely from the experience of the authors.

It covers -

• schools and childhood
• floating hells
• factory life

     schools and childhood

Fictional treatments of childhood and college bullying by peers and elders include -

• Margaret Atwood - Cat's Eye
• Robert Musil - Young Torless
• Robert Cormier - The Chocolate War
• Charles Dickens - Oliver Twist
• William Golding - Lord of the Flies
• John Lindqvist - Let The Right One In
• Martin Flanagan - In Sunshine or in Shadow
• Thomas Hughes - Tom Brown's Schooldays
• Orson Card - Ender's Game
• Mark Taylor - Dogs Are Barking

     floating hells

Fictional treatments of life in the armed forces and merchant marine include -

• James Hanley - Boy
• Herman Melville - Billy Budd
• Charles Wheeler - The Gunroom
• FRederick Marryat - Mr Midshipman Easy
• Nicholas Monsarrat - The Cruel Sea

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