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General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1914 Original Publisher: H. Holt and Company Subjects: Fiction / General Fiction / Classics Fiction / Historical Fiction / Literary Fiction / Westerns Literary Criticism / American / General Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER V ENTER PETER AND GLORY Barrington did everything on a large scale -- he knew he was going to be a big man. He arranged his surroundings with an eye to his expanding future. It was so when he bought his house at Topbury. It had more rooms than he could furnish -- more than a young married couple could comfortably occupy. But he intended to spend his entire life there, hanging the walls with memories and associations of affection. It would be none too large for a growing family. That was Barring- ton all over; he planned and looked ahead. The house stood high in the north of London; it was one of twenty in a terrace -- all with porches and areas in front, and long walled gardens at the back. To-day the octopus suburbs, throwing out tentacles of small mean dwellings, have crept across the broad views and strangled the rural aspect. But when Nan and Barrington went to live there, they looked out from their back-windows uninterrupted across the Vale of Holloway to Gospel Oak and the Heath at Hampstead. The approach to Topbury Terrace was through quiet fields where sheep were grazing. The oldest inhabitants still talked of a group of shops as Top- bury Village. Many of the roads were private; traffic was kept back by gates or posts planted across them. The house was a hundred years old, spacious and lofty. It had the sturdy look of Eighteenth Century handiwork. Though standing in a terrace, it retained it...


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780548996423
  • Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
  • Publisher Imprint: Kessinger Publishing
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 488
  • Series Title: English
  • Weight: 933 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0548996423
  • Publisher Date: 02 Jun 2008
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 32 mm
  • Width: 152 mm

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