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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.

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

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.

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.

Sequel to Shabby Tiger. Beautiful and calculating, the heartless social climber Rachel Rosing''s story of her marriage, career as an actress and near fame until a final disaster.

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

Mr Menheniot had an obsession about the old family house, and after many years he is able to go and live there.

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

Un grande romanzo multigenerazionale dal sapore dickensiano William Essex cresce negli slums di Manchester e riesce a sfuggire a un destino di miseria grazie a un benefattore che ne intuisce il talento letterario. Il suo migliore amico è Dermot O’Riordan falegname irlandese e sostenitore della causa repubblicana. William e Dermot seguono strade parallele ed entrambi riescono a realizzare i propri sogni: William si afferma come scrittore mentre Dermot diventa un industriale di successo. Si sposano entrambi e hanno due figli maschi nati nello stesso giorno: Oliver e Rory. E su di loro investono tutte le speranze che i padri investono sui figli. «Vorrei realizzare per mio figlio ciò che ho mancato io. Voglio che abbia tutto! Voglio dargli una vita splendida!». Ma la vita, quella vita evocata, deciderà diversamente. I progetti che i due amici fanno sui loro figli non andranno esattamente come avevano sognato una sera, al «fumo delle pipe, gli occhi velati dalle incerte nebbie del futuro». Oliver e Rory cresceranno ma, contro le aspettative paterne, non perpetueranno l’amicizia tra le due famiglie, anzi, per ragioni sentimentali, si ritroveranno acerrimi nemici, mentre sul loro destino e quello dei loro genitori, si stende l’ombra tragica della Grande Guerra. Narrata da William, questa storia di genitori e figli, amici e rivali, ragazzi e soldati, è incalzante come le canzoni popolari, la rivista, i canti tradizionali che accompagnavano i giovani in guerra e che battono il tempo facendo da sfondo e restituendo il sapore di un’epoca intera. Howard Spring, romanziere oggi ingiustamente dimenticato, si fece conoscere al mondo intero proprio con questo romanzo, pubblicato nel 1938 (e uscito in Italia nel 1940 grazie all’intuito di Gian Dauli, direttore della collana degli Scrittori di tutto il mondo) che ne mette in risalto la straordinaria capacità di costruire trame complesse e appassionanti con un ritmo narrativo travolgente, capace però di sciogliersi in un largo adagio quando descrive i paesaggi che assistono imperturbabili, nei loro cicli vitali, al muoversi dei tanti personaggi che affrontano la vita in modi così diversi.

Jo und Jack sind „sozusagen Zwillinge‟, wachsen sie doch gemeinsam in einem Haus am Meer in dem idyllischen Dorf Salthaven in England auf. Doch während Jo der Sohn einer bekannten Schriftstellerin ist, ist Jack das Kind einer Frau, die es auf der Flucht vor den Schrecken des Ersten Weltkrieges nach Salthaven verschlug, wo sie aus Kummer und gebrochenem Herzen starb. Da er offensichtlich keine Verwandte gab, blieb er im Haus von Jo Mutter, und Jo und Jack sind wie Brüder. Als sie zu ihrem Geburtstag einen eigenen Wohnwagen geschenkt bekommen, ziehen sie in den Ferien zur großen Abenteuerfahrt quer durchs Land los und schließen sich unterwegs „Sampsons Super Zirkus‟ an. Es sollten die schönsten Ferien ihres Lebens werden . . . Doch wer ist der geheimnisvolle Herr Niemand, der plötzlich überall dort auftaucht, wo die beiden Jungs sind? Und warum zeigt er ein so auffälliges Interesse geraden an Jack? Dann wird die abenteuerliche Urlaubsfahrt zu einem gefährlichen Kampf auf Leben und Tod.

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.