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Excerpt from Winged VictoryFour Sundials I. The Orthodox II. The Rebel III. The Sentimentalist IV. Disillusioned Night Song Prayer for a Sudden Death The Battlefields Revisited: I. The Happy Warrior ll. Arras III. Vimy hill'vision Decision.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books u...

Alla fine di un pomeriggio di lavoro intenso ma fruttuoso, il giovane agente di cambio londinese Malcolm Warren può finalmente lasciare il suo ufficio e godersi le festività natalizie. La sua famiglia è in vacanza in Francia, e a lui non resta che accettare l'invito a trascorrere la vigilia di Natale a Beresford Lodge, la lussuosa residenza di Axel Quisberg, uno dei suoi migliori clienti. Il padrone di casa passerà la notte fuori per via di un...

Mr Kitchin is an enjoyably ruthless writer.' - Punch 'Ten Pollitt Place is written in another language. It is another world. . . . [T]he observation is delightful. It is beautifully done.' - The Observer 'Mr Kitchin is still writing the traditional, well-bred, upper-English-middle-class novel. He does it finely, with a loving art.' - The Spectator 'Before the end of this year someone in this house is going to die.' This is the terribl...

There we were, all gathered together for a Christmas party, and plunged suddenly into gloom.' It's Christmas at Hampstead's Beresford Lodge. A group of relatives and intimate friends gather to celebrate the festive season, but their party is rudely interrupted by a violent death. It isn't long before a second body is discovered. Can the murderer be one of those in the great house? The stockbroker sleuth Malcolm Warren investigates, in this br...

Malcolm Warren, a young but valetudinarian stockbroker, is looking forward to a dull weekend when a telegram summons him to stay with his capricious old Aunt Catherine, who has shocked the family by marrying Hannibal Cartwright, a muscular garage owner many years her junior.

One must admire the perfectly done thing, and this evocation of the late Edwardian age, told with ironic grace and subtlety, is the best thing of its kind since L. P. Hartley's The Go-Between.' - Vogue 'Worldly, wise, mild, funny, and tender, written in constantly felicitous prose.' - Manchester Guardian '[A]n exciting story as well as an evocation of feeling, time, and place which completely fascinates. The author plays the reader w...

A writer who deserves to be admired and cherished." - Francis King "[O]ne of the most original novelists of his generation. His delicate, witty prose ably evokes the atmosphere of south London in which the story is set." - British Book News "[I]ntriguing . . . Short, firmly written, and agreeably unpretentious." - The Guardian Francis Norton is an elderly bachelor who enjoys nothing better than spending a warm day outside in one...

[A] first-class psychological study . . . the character drawing, although a little cruel, is admirably done and the writing is consistently excellent." - Times Literary Supplement "It is original, it is strangely exciting, and the logic of its plan is repeated in the behaviour of its characters." - L. P. Hartley "It is really a detective story in which the clues, instead of being actual, are psychological. The reader is made to feel ...

Mr. Kitchin has achieved a very considerable feat . . . written with amazing economy . . . in short, it is a work of art." - Spectator "A writer who deserves to be admired and cherished." - Francis King "Mr. Kitchin is one of the cleverest, most intellectual, and most challenging of our novelists, and he has the rare merit of giving these qualities the flavour of a personality: they humanise and refresh his story instead of drying it...

Excerpt from Winged VictoryFour Sundials I. The Orthodox II. The Rebel III. The Sentimentalist IV. Disillusioned Night Song Prayer for a Sudden Death The Battlefields Revisited: I. The Happy Warrior ll. Arras III. Vimy hill'vision Decision.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books u...