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Patchwork
Beverley Nichols
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R917
Discovery Miles 9 170
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Verdict On India
Beverley_nichols Beverley_nichols
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R876
Discovery Miles 8 760
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Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the
1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly
expensive. Hesperides Press are republishing these classic works in
affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text
and artwork.
'I have read every word of it. It has life and good nature. It is
full of fun - written with an easy, vivid English' Somerset Maugham
in The Sunday Times
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the
1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly
expensive. Hesperides Press are republishing these classic works in
affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text
and artwork.
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Patchwork
Beverley Nichols
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R693
Discovery Miles 6 930
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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'An amazing book.' - "Sunday Times"
'With this book he establishes his claim to rank as a vastly
entertaining observer of human life. He has a very attractive
style, a frequently delicious humour, and a dramatic sense of
situation.' - Arthur Waugh, "The Daily Telegraph"
'Brilliantly original.' - "The Guardian"
'It is altogether a brilliant affair.' - "Bystander"
Brian Elme ekes out a livelihood making up stories about
celebrities for a tabloid gossip column. When an angry Lady Julia
Cressey spots one of Brian's stories about her, it looks like the
end of his journalism career - until she sees how young and
handsome he is. Overnight, Brian finds himself the star of society,
charming everyone with his beauty and ingenuousness and growing
accustomed to late night parties, decadent dinners, and eternal
cocktails. As Brian finds himself led down the path of depravity by
his new friends, will he be able to maintain his innocence?
Beverley Nichols (1898-1983) was one of the 'Bright Young People',
a group of socialites well-known in 1920s London for their
drinking, drug use, and elaborate parties, and in this novel he
satirized the set to which he belonged. Inspired in part by Wilde's
"The Picture of Dorian Gray" and an influence on Evelyn Waugh's
novels, "Crazy Pavements" (1927) was a bestseller in its day and
has lost none of its ferocious humour. This edition, the first in
more than seventy years, includes a new introduction by David
Deutsch discussing the novel's themes, including its gay subtexts.
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for
quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in
an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the
digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books
may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading
experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have
elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing
commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the
1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly
expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable,
high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such
as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages.
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the
1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly
expensive. Hesperides Press are republishing these classic works in
affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text
and artwork.
NEWS OF ENGLAND Or, A Country Pf ttkout A Hero By BEVERLEY NICHOLS
DOUBLEDAY, DORAN COMPANY, INC. New York 1938 CL COPYRIGHT, 1938 BY
BEVERIBY NICHOLS ALL RIGHTS RESERVED FIRST EDITION FOR FRANCIS
YEATS-BROWN Bengal Lancer Dear Y-B, There was a day when you
disagreed so strongly with one of my books that you honoured me by
writing a reply to it. Across the cover of that book was printed in
large letters, Beverley Nichols Refuted. I wish that on the cover
of this book I might return the compliment, and write Yeats-Brown
Refuted 9 . But News of England, far from being a refutation of
your philoso phy, is in some ways an endorsement of it. That, at
least, is how it seems to me. You are too generous a man to say
told you so. The fact remains that you did, and I am glad to have
the opportunity of here acknowledging it. As ever, B. N. Contents
CHAPTER PAGE I A COUNTRY WITHOUT A HERO ... i II TOWERS OF BABEL 17
III THE SOUND OF THE SIRENS .... 30 IV UP IN THE CLOUDS 45 V THE
GODDESS OF CHANCE .... 59 VI THE SOBER TRUTH 74 VII THE FLOCK AND
THE FATHERS ... 85 VIII STUDY IN RED 101 IX HOME OF LOST CAUSES 117
X PAGLIACCI 134 XI SOCIETY PAGEANT 143 XII FINE FEATHERS 157 XIII
DIVERTISSEMENT 168 XIV WAVE LENGTH 180 XV SOFTLY, SOFTLY, CATCHEE
MONKEY., 196 vii CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE XVI DISTRESSED AREA 213 XVII
BLACK DIAMONDS 227 XVIII DOWN THE MINE 237 XIX INTERLUDE AT LINCOLN
245 XX UNKNOWN QUANTITY 261 XXI THE BITTER END 284 mii NEWS OF
ENGLAND Or, A Country Without A Hero CHAPTER I A Country Without a
Hero A GREY CLOAK, a brace of greyhounds, a pair of gilt spurs, a
pound of cumin, a salmon spear, a pair of white gloves, a hundred
shillings and a pound of pepper, . . these are the gifts which,
inthe year 1938, are still presented to King George VI of England
on his visit to the Duchy of Cornwall. He travels from London by
one of the speediest trains in the world. It flies through a
country that even his father would hardly recognize, so quickly are
the old landmarks passing. As he receives these feudal dues, which
seem to have been brought not only from another civilization but
from another world, the fastest bombers in Europe dip in salute,
high above him. But still the ancient gifts are laid at his feet
... a grey cloak, a brace of greyhounds, a pair of gilt spurs. It
is not merely a picturesque anachronism. It is a highly significant
trait in the national character, that character which clings
steadfastly to ancient forms, long after the realities which
moulded them have been for NEWS OF ENGLAND gotten, and long after
the spirit which inspired them has died away. It is as significant
as the bunch of newly-cut flowers which the Recorder of London
always carries with him as, in his scarlet robe, he enters the
court of the Old Bailey to administer the law of the land. The
fragrance of those flowers drifts back through the centuries, to
the time when the stench of the wicked was so over powering that
the delicate nostrils of the court were offended, and sought
protection in the pinks and laven ders which might then be plucked
not so very far away, in the fields of Lincolns Inn, To-day, the
prisoner at the bar has had a bath, whether he likes it or not. The
court is air-conditioned and centrally heated. But the flowers
remain in the hand of the Recorder, apparently fadeless a symbol of
the unbroken continuity of English law. It is this almost
passionate adherence to the languageof the past, at the very moment
when we are thinking in the language of the future and often
determining the cadences of that language, this obstinate practice
of pouring our new wine into old bottles, which makes England the
despair of foreign observers. A country which so persistently says
one thing and does another is inexplicable. Worse than
inexplicable. Perfide. At the same time, it is exceedingly
interesting. More interesting to-day than at any time in history...
'I have read every word of it. It has life and good nature. It is
full of fun - written with an easy, vivid English' Somerset Maugham
in The Sunday Times
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the
1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly
expensive. Hesperides Press are republishing these classic works in
affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text
and artwork.
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