Best of
British-Literature

1928

Money for Nothing


P.G. Wodehouse - 1928
    Following a contretemps with Colonel Wyvern, what could be better than a sojourn at Healthward Ho? Quite a lot, as it turns out, when Lester Carmody of Rudge Hall puts himself into the hands of Dr Twist, the aptly named owner of the establishment, and pursues a devious money-making scheme.

Sorrell and Son


Warwick Deeping - 1928
    His son returns this complete devotion, and as he grows to manhood and faces despair and triumph, the memory of his father is always with him.

Two Forsyte Interludes: A Silent Wooing and Passers by


John Galsworthy - 1928
    English novelist and playwright, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1932, Galsworthy became known for his portrayal of the British upper middle class and for his social satire. He is most famous for The Forsyte Saga, which consists of a sequence of three novels and these two interludes. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.

Parade's End


Ford Madox Ford - 1928
    . . The 'subject' was the world as it culminated in the war. Published in four parts between 1924 and 1928, his extraordinary novel centers on Christopher Tietjens, an officer and gentleman- the last English Tory-and follows him from the secure, orderly world of Edwardian England into the chaotic madness of the First World War. Against the backdrop of a world at war, Ford recounts the complex sexual warfare between Tietjens and his faithless wife Sylvia. A work of truly amazing subtlety and profundity, Parade's End affirms Graham Greene's prediction: There is no novelist of this century more likely to live than Ford Madox Ford.

Point Counter Point


Aldous Huxley - 1928
    By presenting a vision of life in which diverse aspects of experience are observed simultaneously, Huxley characterizes the symptoms of "the disease of the modern man" in the manner of a composer--themes and characters are repeated, altered slightly, and played off one another in a tone that is at once critical and sympathetic.First published in 1928, Huxley's satiric view of intellectual life in the '20s is populated with characters based on such celebrities as D.H. Lawrence, Katherine Mansfield, Nancy Cunard, and John Middleton Murry, as well as Huxley himself.

Happy Days


A.A. Milne - 1928
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The Marloe Mansions Murder


Adam Gordon Macleod - 1928
    It is in the latter capacity that Sir William, together with his nephew Bobby, sets off to see a man about a stamp. But when they reach the chic London apartment block where resides the strangely-named collector Ganthony Slyne, they are shocked to discover the man's dead body awaiting them in the lift. Foul play is indicated and while Sir William assists Inspector Brett with the murder investigation, Bobby becomes fascinated with a beautiful young woman seen leaving the scene of the crime...

Second Plays by A.A. Milne


A.A. Milne - 1928
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Felicity - Stands By


Richmal Crompton - 1928
    Having finished school, Felicity returns to the family seat to live with her grandfather Sir Digby, sufferer of the infamous Harborough gout and the Harborough temper. Always well-meaning and often hapless, Felicity sets about to organise and matchmake those around her: including rescuing her friend Sheila from the affections (and affectations) of local poet Marmaduke Eltham; joining travelling band ‘The Oranges’; and saving some rather important political papers from the clutches of a thief. Her escapades are a series of witty, warm and entertaining vignettes, sure to enchant anyone who loved the bestselling Just William series.

A History of Elizabethan Literature


George Saintsbury - 1928
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