Penguin Main Seris 385. 1st Edition, published 1942.
This is a novel of English society as 1900 approaches. A divorce is being threatened in the Pendyce family, whose members are of the landed gentry. Such an event would be an enormous scandal. There is little action. The story paints, in exquisite language, the feelings of each of the six or so main characters. These feelings concern the necessity for family honor and the horror of scandal; the stifling effect of the social mores of the time; the ridiculous complications of the law; and, the threat of the many changes in the social order which seem to be coming.
Condition grading: Fair. Pen name and date to title page. Seciton missing from bottom of spine and bottom left corner of front cover. Top right corner tip missing from front cover. 1cm tear to right edge of front cover. Some creases to bottom left corner of rear cover. Binding tight. The photographs form part of the description.
Penguin Main Seris 385. 1st Edition, published 1942.
This is a novel of English society as 1900 approaches. A divorce is being threatened in the Pendyce family, whose members are of the landed gentry. Such an event would be an enormous scandal. There is little action. The story paints, in exquisite language, the feelings of each of the six or so main characters. These feelings concern the necessity for family honor and the horror of scandal; the stifling effect of the social mores of the time; the ridiculous complications of the law; and, the threat of the many changes in the social order which seem to be coming.
Condition grading: Fair. Pen name and date to title page. Seciton missing from bottom of spine and bottom left corner of front cover. Top right corner tip missing from front cover. 1cm tear to right edge of front cover. Some creases to bottom left corner of rear cover. Binding tight. The photographs form part of the description.
