Riceyman Steps, first published in 1923, is set in ¿dingy and sordid¿ Clerkenwell, in central London, where ¿existence was a dangerous and difficult adventure in almost frantic quest of food, drink and shelter.¿ It¿s there that Henry Earlforward runs a gloomy, dusty store full of secondhand books. He eats less and less with every day, keeps his young servant Elsie working long hours for minimal pay, and never lights a candle when darkness will...
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