The Quiet Ear: Deafness in Literature

Brian Grant

A most enjoyable collection of writings by or about deaf people, in which the reader will be able to experience the passionate despair of Beethoven, or how the deaf countess of Orkney discovered she had a 'hearing' child, or Tom Sharpe's student hero bellowing his sexual problems to a deaf dean attracting interested listeners… Drawing on scores of authors including Jack Ashley, Geoffrey Chaucer, Catherine Cookson, Colin Dexter, Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy, Ernest Hemmingway, Mark Twain, Oscar Wilde and David Wright. This book is a treasure of some of the greatest writings on deafness.

Hardcover 247 pages 1987

£12.50