Hamilton (1904–1962) captures the edgy, obsessive and eventually murderous mindset of a romantically frustrated British man in this WWII-era novel published in the U.S. as a separate volume for the first time. As the story opens, 34-year-old George Harvey Bone—a heavyset, good-hearted failure—is ...
The Twenty Thousand Streets Under The Sky trilogy is an amazing achievement, originally published as three separate books: The Midnight Bell (1929), The Siege of Pleasure (1932) and The Plains of Cement (1934). In 1935, these books were first collected in one volume as Twenty Thousand Streets U...
Because it did this, this dawn bore no more resemblance to a peace-time dawn than the aspect of nature on a Sunday bears a resemblance to the aspect of nature on a weekday. Thus it seemed that dawn itself had been grimly harnessed to the war effort, made to alter its normal mode of existence, had...
and when she was at Liverpool, and on her twentieth birthday, that Jackie had news of the death of Lady Perrin. She had been corresponding with the old lady a week before this, and it was a great blow, and sickened her very much. From Lady Perrin’s death she received the s...