It is a social panorama of the city of London, seen largely through the eyes of the employees of the firm Twigg & Dersingham, at No. 8, Angel Pavement. Their lives are changed after the arrival of a mysterious Mr. Golspie, who assures the future of their veneer-and-inlay company through imports from the Baltic. The story has as a backdrop the high levels of unemployment and economic insecurity of late 1920s London, immediately before the Great Depression
This novel is a gripping story of a girl in desperate circumstances, who finds herself in the hands of a criminal organization, to whom she herself is a source of danger. On a fast train to London, Arthur Crook meets trouble with a capital T. During the journey one passenger disappears and is subsequently found dead beside the line. The killer has killed before and is preparing to kill again
In Smith of Wootton Major, Tolkien explores the gift of fantasy, and what it means to the life and character of the man who receives it. And FARMER GILES OF HAM tells a delightfully ribald mock-heroic tale, where a dragon who invades a town refuses to fight, and a farmer is chosen to slay him
The Thirty-Nine Steps was written by John Buchan and published in the year 1915. The novel begins as Richard Hannay has just arrived back in London after an extensive stay in South Africa. Hannay is accustomed to a fast-paced lifestyle and quickly tires of the London scene. Shortly after his return home, he meets a secret agent who believes that Great Britain is on the verge of a war with Germany and warns Hannay to be on the lookout for a group of assassins, collectively known as The Black Stone. The man hides in Hannay's apartment for a while
This book is a magnificent portriat of English Literatry life from the twenties to the present. To do so with the grace and genius that characterized Anthony Powell—whose twelve-volume, A Dance to the Music of Time is possibly the only English-language work to match the majestic scope of Proust's Remembrance of Things Past—is nothing short of spectacular
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