Author: Compton MackenziePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 66
Book Description
Sinister Street
Author: Compton MackenzieSinister Street
Author: Compton MackenziePublisher: Standard Ebooks
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1164
Book Description
Michael Fane arrives in the thin red house in Carlington Road to his new family of Nurse, Cook, Annie the housemaid, his younger sister Stella, and the occasional presence of Mother. From here, the novel follows the next twenty years of his life as he tries to find his place in the upper echelons of Edwardian society, through prep school, studies at Oxford, and his emergence into the wide world. The setting is rich in period detail, and the characters portrayed are vivid and more nuanced in their actions and stories than first impressions imply. Sinister Street was an immediate critical success on publication, although not without some worry for its openness to discuss less salubrious scenes, and it was a favourite of George Orwell and John Betjeman. Compton Mackenzie had attended both St. James’ school and St. Mary’s College at Oxford and the novel is at least partly autobiographical, but for the same measure was praised as an accurate portrayal of that experience; Max Beerbohm said “There is no book on Oxford like it. It gives you the actual Oxford experience.” Although originally published in two volumes (in 1913 and 1914) for commercial reasons, the two form a single novel and have been brought back together again for this edition. This book is part of the Standard Ebooks project, which produces free public domain ebooks.
Sinister Street (the Complete Two Volumes)
Author: Compton MackenziePublisher:
ISBN: 9781721755035
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 828
Book Description
It is a novel about growing up, and concerns two children, Michael Fane and his sister Stella. Both of them are born out of wedlock, something which was frowned upon at the time, but from rich parents. The book(s) had several sequels, which continue until Michael Fane's marriage. -1917 - Guy and Pauline (published in the United States as Plashers Mead)1918 - The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett (made into the 1935 romantic comedy film Sylvia Scarlett starring Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant)1919 - Sylvia and Michael
Sinister Street (Vol. 1&2)
Author: Compton MacKenziePublisher: e-artnow
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 940
Book Description
Sinister Street is a novel about growing up, and concerns two children, Michael Fane and his sister Stella have throught their young life. Both of them are born out of wedlock, something which was frowned upon at the time, but from rich parents. The novel had several sequels, which continue until Michael Fane's marriage.
Sinister Street
Author: Compton MackenziePublisher:
ISBN: 9781620127605
Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Sinister Street
Author: Compton MackenzieSinister Street
Author: Compton MackenzieSinister Street (Complete)
Author: Compton MackenziePublisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465521690
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1513
Book Description
From a world of daisies as big as moons and of mountainous green hillocks Michael Fane came by some unrealized method of transport to the thin red house, that as yet for his mind could not claim an individual existence amid the uniformity of a long line of fellows. His arrival coincided with a confusion of furniture, with the tramp of men backwards and forwards from a cavernous vehicle very dry and dusty. He found himself continually being lifted out of the way of washstands and skeleton chests of drawers. He was invited to sit down and keep quiet, and almost in the same breath to walk about and avoid hindrance. Finally, Nurse led him up many resonant stairs to the night-nursery which at present consisted of two square cots that with japanned iron bars stood gauntly in a wilderness of oilcloth surrounded by four walls patterned with a prolific vegetation. Michael was dumped down upon a grey pillow and invited to see how well his sister Stella was behaving. Nurse’s observation was true enough: Stella was rosily asleep in an undulation of blankets, and Michael, threatened by many whispers and bony finger-shakes, was not at all inclined to wake her up. Nurse retired in an aura of importance, and Michael set out to establish an intimacy with the various iron bars of his cage. For a grown-up person these would certainly have seemed much more alike than even the houses of Carlington Road, West Kensington: for Michael each bar possessed a personality. Minute scratches unnoticed by the heedless adult world lent variety of expression: slight irregularities infused certain groups with an air of deliberate consultation. From the four corners royal bars, crowned with brass, dominated their subjects. Passions, intrigues, rumours, ambitions, revenges were perceived by Michael to be seething below the rigid exterior of these iron bars: even military operations were sometimes discernible. This cot was guarded by a romantic population, with one or two of whose units Michael could willingly have dispensed: one bar in particular, set very much askew, seemed sly and malignant. Michael disliked being looked at by anybody or anything, and this bar had a persistent inquisitiveness which already worried him. ‘Why does he look at me?’ Michael would presently ask, and ‘Nobody wants to look at such an ugly little boy,’ Nurse would presently reply. So one more intolerable question would overshadow his peace of mind. Meanwhile, far below, the tramp of men continued, until suddenly an immense roar filled the room. Some of the bars shivered and clinked, and Michael’s heart nearly stopped. The roar died away only to be succeeded by another roar from the opposite direction. Stella woke up crying. Michael was too deeply frightened so to soothe himself, as he sat clutching the pointed ears of the grey pillow. Stella, feeling that the fretful tears of a sudden awakening were insufficient, set up a bellow of dismay. Michael was motionless, only aware of a gigantic heart that shook him horribly. At last the footsteps of Nurse could be heard, and over them, the quick ‘tut-tut-tuts’ that voiced her irritation.
Sinister Street
Author: Compton MackenziePublisher:
ISBN: 9781620127599
Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
SINISTER STREET,.
Author: COMPTON. MACKENZIEPublisher:
ISBN: 9781033247280
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description