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Complete and unabridged, with 57 full-page plates by Thomas Hill, John Kelt Edwards and Benjamin Williams Leader. London in the first summer after the war: a young man comes down from the north with a scarlet feather in his hat and a certainty that life is about to begin, and the city obliges him unevenly. Hugh Walpole was at the height of his fame when he wrote it and put his own literary London into it barely disguised. The enchantment of the title is real and so is the hangover. Fifty-five plates of Victorian and Edwardian portraiture, among them faces by Edward Burne-Jones and Frederic Leighton, give the novel's London its gallery of remembered faces.
Complete and unabridged, with 57 full-page plates by Thomas Hill, John Kelt Edwards and Benjamin Williams Leader. London in the first summer after the war: a young man comes down from the north with a scarlet feather in his hat and a certainty that life is about to begin, and the city obliges him...
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Hugh Walpole (1884–1941) was a New Zealand-born English novelist, immensely successful and famously anxious about it, who served with the Russian Red Cross in the war and afterwards wrote the Herries chronicle of the Lake District. Henry James called him dear boy; Somerset Maugham put him in a novel unkindly.
Hugh Walpole (1884–1941) was a New Zealand-born English novelist, immensely successful and famously anxious about it, who served with the Russian Red Cross in the war and afterwards wrote the Herries chronicle of the Lake District. Henry James called him dear boy; Somerset Maugham put him in a no...
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