Hugh Walpole
1) Judith Paris
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
An impetuous character, Judith Paris arouses feelings of both tenderness and despair in those around her and excites the passions of two very different men: the sturdy, affectionate Reuben, her half-cousin; and Georges, a Frenchman, whose wilful nature seems to respond to her own.The old woman, Mrs. Henny, had finished her washing and laying-out of the bodies of the child's father and of the child's mother. She had done it alone because
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Publisher
MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED ST. MARTIN'S STREET
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
"The Wooden Horse is the story of the Trojans, a family which accepted as tranquility the belief that they were the people for whom the world was created. But when Harry Trojan came home after twenty years in New Zealand, with the democracy learned by working his hands, he was the "wooden horse" who boldly carried into the Trojan walls a whole army of alien ideals, which made of that egotistic family a group of human beings content to be human.
"Interesting...
Author
Publisher
MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED ST. MARTIN'S STREET
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
"The Wooden Horse is the story of the Trojans, a family which accepted as tranquility the belief that they were the people for whom the world was created. But when Harry Trojan came home after twenty years in New Zealand, with the democracy learned by working his hands, he was the "wooden horse" who boldly carried into the Trojan walls a whole army of alien ideals, which made of that egotistic family a group of human beings content to be human.
"Interesting...
Author
Publisher
George H. Doran Company
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Sir Hugh Seymour Walpole, CBE (13 March 1884 – 1 June 1941) was an English novelist. He was the son of an Anglican clergyman, intended for a career in the church but drawn instead to writing. Among those who encouraged him were the authors Henry James and Arnold Bennett. His skill at scene-setting and vivid plots, as well as his high profile as a lecturer, brought him a large readership in the United Kingdom and North America. He was a best-selling...
Author
Series
Rising city ; 1
Publisher
George H. Doran Company
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sir Hugh Seymour Walpole, CBE (13 March 1884 – 1 June 1941) was an English novelist. He was the son of an Anglican clergyman, intended for a career in the church but drawn instead to writing. Among those who encouraged him were the authors Henry James and Arnold Bennett. His skill at scene-setting and vivid plots, as well as his high profile as a lecturer, brought him a large readership in the United Kingdom and North America. He was a best-selling...
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Rogue Herries / Hugh Walpole
"The first in the Herries Chronicle saga by Hugh Walpole.
The tale of Francis Herries, the "rogue" of the title. A violent and impetuous man, a faithless husband and a capricious father, the Borrowdale valley (his home for 40 years) and his unrequited love for gypsy Mirabell Starr are the two forces which drive him." (Goodreads)
Author
Series
Publisher
Macmillan and Co., Limited
Pub. Date
1930.
Language
English
Description
"Rogue Herries" is the first in the series of four novels about a Cumbrian family set in the 18th century. Francis Herries is an eccentric, larger-than-life man tortured by a strong romantic streak. He uproots his entire family from Doncaster, and takes them to live in a crumbling manor-house in the wilds of Borrowdale. A violent and impetuous man, a faithless husband and a capricious father, the Borrowdale valley (his home for 40 years) and his unrequited...
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Language
English
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Description
Dolittle is an English gentleman who finds himself in the wrong occupation, a doctor of people, and gradually withdraws from society becoming a poor down and out town recluse. One day his English speaking pet parrot Polynesia lets him in on a secret that animals have a language of their own. Dolittle, now able to understand the complaints of animals, becomes a successful and world-renowned doctor of animals. Animal language is the central device of...
Author
Language
English
Description
In the city of Polchester there was an old rickety building on the rock above an old grass-grown square. The house was a windy, creaky, rain-bitten place where three old ladies lived as tenants, including Miss Beringer, who moved in the day before.
Although Miss Beringer has a rather nervous personality, she is befriended by a kindly neighbour named Mrs. Amorest. Soon, however, she meets the third tenant, a strange woman who takes an interest in her...
10) The cathedral
Author
Language
English
Description
The fight for power between an archdeacon and a canon in an English cathedral town.
11) The fortress
Author
Series
Publisher
Macmillan
Pub. Date
1932.
Language
English
Description
This third volume of the Herries Chronicles, traces the rich and romantic history of an English Lake District family through fifty years - from the summer fair at Keswich to the coronation of Queen Victoria.
Author
Series
Rising city ; II
Publisher
George H. Doran
Pub. Date
[1917]
Language
English
Description
Sounding a favorite theme the power of the elderly, especially the power of elderly ladies this early (1917) novel shows the influence of the author's mentor, Henry James. It encapsulates Walpole's gift for lighting on the small, telling detail and also his surprising humor. Second in the Rising City sequence, after The Duchess of Wrexe.
17) Vanessa
Author
Pub. Date
1933.
Language
English
Description
Follows the family fortunes of the Herries from 1875 into the 20th century.
18) Hans Frost
Author
Publisher
Macmillan and Co., Limited
Pub. Date
1929.
Language
English
Description
Hans Frost is a great figure for his fans. The protagonist is the greatest writer. Hans Frost received his guests and graciously accepted the wonderful gift that his fans combined to buy for him. His books do not bring such a large income, and the wealth of his wife provides the luxury that he possessed from the time of their marriage. Natalie's entry into his world is the catalyst that Hans needs to wake him from recession.
