Riceyman Steps: James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction 1923
The story takes place in 1919-1920 and deals with the final year in the life of its main character, Henry Earlforward, a miser, who keeps a second-hand bookshop in the Clerkenwell area of London. Henry marries Violet Arb, a widow who keeps a neighbouring shop, and who sees in Henry a financially secure future. Henry's parsimony drives them into an increasingly wretched existence. Their lives are contrasted to that of their maid servant Elsie Sprickett and it is she, despite her extreme poverty, who brings life and a future to the bittersweet tale.
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Riceyman Steps: James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction 1923
The story takes place in 1919-1920 and deals with the final year in the life of its main character, Henry Earlforward, a miser, who keeps a second-hand bookshop in the Clerkenwell area of London. Henry marries Violet Arb, a widow who keeps a neighbouring shop, and who sees in Henry a financially secure future. Henry's parsimony drives them into an increasingly wretched existence. Their lives are contrasted to that of their maid servant Elsie Sprickett and it is she, despite her extreme poverty, who brings life and a future to the bittersweet tale.
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Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781536811414 |
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| Publisher: | CreateSpace Publishing |
| Publication date: | 07/31/2016 |
| Pages: | 288 |
| Product dimensions: | 8.50(w) x 11.02(h) x 0.60(d) |
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