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SAI INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL
LESSON NOTES – STD 7
MODULE:26
LITERATURE: FACE ON THE WALL

LESSON NOTES

THE STORY:

• A little man with an anxious face joins the
discussion at Dabney's, about incidents that cannot
1. be explained by natural causes.

• The man narrates a most extraordinary event that
happened to him,and stangely enough completed
2. itself only that afternoon.

• The plot revolves around the narrator and a famous
gentleman nammed Mr.Ormond Wall and the

3. stange connection that they shared.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: EDWARD VERRALL LUCAS (1868 - 1938)

Edward Verrall Lucas,(June 1868 – June 1938) was an English humourist, essayist, playwright,
biographer, publisher, poet, novelist, short story writer and editor.
Born to a Quaker family in Eltham, on the fringes of London, Lucas began work at the age of sixteen,
apprenticed to a bookseller. After that he turned to journalismand worked on a local paper.
Lucas joined the staff of the humorous magazine Punch in 1904, and remained there for the rest of
his life. He was a prolific writer, most celebrated for his short essays, but he also produced verses,
novels and plays.
Lucas had a great appetite for the curious, the human, and the ridiculous. If he were offered a story,
an incident or an absurdity, his mind instantly shaped it with wit and form. He read a character with
wisdom, and gravely turned it to fun. He versified a fancyor concentrated in an anecdote or instance
all that a vaguer mind might stagger for an hour to express.
Some of his famous works are:

 The Face on the Wall
 Sparks from a Flint: Odd Rhymes for Odd Times (1891)