Best Selling Books by Howard Spring

An affectionate memoir using much material from his own autobiographies but also adding her own personal memories.

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Time and the Hour" by Howard Spring. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

What a place it was, that dark little house that was two rooms up and two down... I don''t remember to this day where we all slept, though there was a funeral now and then to thin us out. This is the powerful story of two hard-driven men – one a celebrated English novelist, the other a successful Irish entrepreneur – and of their sons, in whom are invested all their fathers'' hopes and ambitions. Oliver Essex and Rory O''Riorden grow up as friends, but in the years after the Great War their fathers'' lofty plans have unexpected consequences.

The story is set in Cornwall where the lead character, Maria Legassick, and her sisters Bella and Louisa, and brother, Roger, are the sons and daughters of a Cornish vicar.

Alice Openshaw is orphaned at age twelve, and goes into domestic service in Manchester. She struggles to get on in life.

Further developments in the life of an English newspaper publisher in the 1900''s.

In a celebrated essay, Macaulay sums up Bacon''s career as a "chequered spectacle of so much glory and so much shame." The words may fitly enough be applied not only to Bacon''s life but to most men''s lives and to most large experiments of human action. In 1942 I began to write a novel whose purpose was to trace the course of one such experiment from its beginnings in the eighties of last century up to our present time. I intended to call this novel, which would have been very long, So Much Glory: So Much Shame. It seemed to me as time went on that the war years, with the paper shortage, were not the best for the publication of so long a book as I had in mind. And, too, my writing during the war is so sporadic and occasional that progress was slow, and it might be years before the book as I conceived it (or at any rate as my conception worked out in practice) was finished. Things being thus, I decided that it would be better to publish the book piecemeal. In my plan, it was divided into three parts called Hard Facts, Dunkerley''s and The Banner. The first of these is the present volume, which makes, I think, a rounded and self-sufficient story. I hope that, in due course, the other volumes will do so, too; and that finally it may be possible to publish the three as one book bearing the title originally chosen for it.

First volume of autobiography covering childhood years.

Three generations of English people, through two great wars and a depression.

About romance and scandal at various social levels from days of Victoria''s splendor to the austerity of Attlee.

This is a new release of the original 1940 edition.

Howard Spring''s first book, written for his children. A story of John (Darkie) who runs away with his dog and has many adventures.