LoginSinister Street (Penguin Modern Classics)
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Initially banned by the powerful circulating libraries, this large, confident record of a young man's upbringin and education at the start of the century was reckoned by Henry James to be the most remarkable book written by a young author during his lifetime. Critic after Critic has agreed with him.
'This has always seemed to me one of the best novels of the best period in English novel writing - the Edwardian age' (John Betjeman)
Compton Mackenzie was born in West Hartlepool in 1883. He was educated at St.Paul's School and Magdalen College, Oxford. His two hobbies he says are the gramophone and Siamese cats - he founded a
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Manufacturer: Penguin Books Ltd
Release date: 31 December 1969
ISBN-10 : 014001490X |
Release date: 31 December 1969
ISBN-10 : 014001490X |
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