Author: Margaret KennedyPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1946022306
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
"Originally published in 1953 by Macmillan and Co., Ltd., London"--Title page verso.
Troy Chimneys
Author: Margaret KennedyPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1946022365
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
“Tense, touching, human, dire, and funny” (Elizabeth Bowen): a Regency novel like none before or since. Troy Chimneys purports to be the private memoirs of Miles Lufton, a minor politician of Regency-era Britain. In them he recounts, with tongue partially in cheek, the battle between the two sides of his personality: the man of sensibility versus the ruthless social climber. But as he charms his way into love and power, the duel threatens to destroy him. In Margaret Kennedy’s later novels, Anita Brookner observed, “virtue does not triumph, patience is not rewarded, people do not receive . . . their just deserts.” A tragicomic confession, by a hero worthy of Jane Austen, Troy Chimneys is the apogee of Kennedy’s late style.
Troy Chimneys
Author: Margaret KennedyPublisher: Random House
ISBN: 1473513057
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 247
Book Description
A Victorian gentleman is forced by illness to entertain himself with the family archive, and he uncovers the Regency-era correspondence and diaries of one Miles Lufton, MP - apparently a black sheep of the family, connected with a scandal long buried. But through the pieced-together artefacts from the past, a fuller picture emerges of a man torn between two personalities - Miles, serious, studious and penniless, and 'Pronto', flirt, political mover and eternal 'extra man'. Miles longs to dispose of his disreputable alter ego, but that way lies calamity...
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