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Quartermaine'sTerms,the only play ever awarded the presti-gious Cheltenham Prize for Literature inEngland.With much humor and anundercurrent of pathos,Quartermaine'sTerms looks at the lives and relationships ofsix teachers who gravitate between classes tothe faculty common room of their small Brit-ish school for foreigners.  \nIn the sheltered atmosphere of theschool,the teachers consider themselves\"members of a family,\"and the faculty roomis the place where they seek refuge from theemotional burdens of their personal lives.Anita suffers with a philandering husband;Mark's longing for a literary career nearlybreaks him;Henry's happy home life crum-bles as his daughter suffers a breakdown;Melanie copes with a cruelly bitter,bedrid-den mother and an unrequited love forHenry,whom she spurned years ago.Butmost tragic of all is St.John Quartermaine,an affable,well-bred bachelor who seems tohave no existence outside the little facultyroom.Impassive,seemingly undisturbed byhis loneliness,Quartermaine has \"an amaz-ing ability not to let the world impinge”onhim—until,at the play's end,it finallydoes,sadly and cruelly.  \nBook Club  \nEdition  \n1C  \n# QUARTERMAINESTERMS\n\nM9  \nQUARTERMAINESTERMS  \nby Simon Gray  \nMETHUEN,INC.LONDON●NEW YORK  \n8                     4(  \n四C  \n# For BERYL\n\nY248","cbCaiclbKZ26oHJx","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiclbKZ26oHJx","pdf",4005068,126,"English","# Introduction to Quartermaine's Terms\n## Characters and Setting\n## Synopsis of the Plot\n## Themes and Dramaturgy","[{\"question\":\"What is the central setting of the play Quartermaine's Terms?\",\"answer\":\"The play is set primarily in the faculty common room of a small British school designed for foreigners, where the teachers congregate between classes.\"},{\"question\":\"Who is St. John Quartermaine?\",\"answer\":\"St. John Quartermaine is an affable, well-bred, and lonely bachelor who possesses a unique ability to distance himself from the world, until his 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