Name: Plashers Mead
Price: 36.55 CAD
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Author: Compton Mackenzie
ISBN: 9780548798621

Plashers Mead

By Compton Mackenzie 30 Apr, 2020

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Originally published in the U.K as "Guy and Pauline", "Plashers Mead" is a 1915 novel by the British writer Compton Mackenzie. It was begun on Capri and written in three and a half months and remained Mackenzie's favourite of his own works.......... The slow train puffed away into the unadventurous country, and the bees buzzing round the wine-dark dahlias along the platform were once again audible. The last farewell that Guy Hazlewood flung over his shoulder to a parting friend was more casual than it would have been had he not at the same moment been turning to ask the solitary porter how many cases of books awaited his disposition. They were very heavy, it seemed; and the porter, as he led the way towards the small and obscure purgatory through which every package for Shipcot must pass, declared he was surprised to hear these cases contained merely books. He would not go so far as to suggest that hitherto he had never faced the existence of books in such quantity, for the admission might have impugned official omniscience; yet there was in his attitude just as much incredulity mingled with disdain of useless learning as would preserve his dignity without jeopardizing the financial compliment his services were owed. Less

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