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  • Chaos Is Come Again (Valancourt 20th Century Classics)
    Claude Houghton
    England, 1932. The nation had just begun to recover from the wounds of the First World War when economic catastrophe struck with the Great Depression. It is against this background that Vernon Dexter arrives at the old manor house at Greystones, home of the notorious philanderer Sir Keith Petersley and his eccentric wife Lady Isabelle, to tutor their disabled son Eric. As he me...
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    25,12 €

  • A Hair Divides (Valancourt 20th Century Classics)
    Claude Houghton
    Gordon Rutherford, a young writer, finds himself in a dangerous dilemma when he is the only witness to the accidental death of an acquaintance. Because of the strange circumstances of the case, Rutherford knows that if he goes to the police he will almost certainly be accused of murder. But if he disposes of the body and conceals the accident, he will destroy any chance of prov...
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    22,70 €

  • Julian Grant Loses His Way (Valancourt 20th Century Classics)
    Claude Houghton
    'Claude Houghton’s novels are always interesting . . . Julian Grant Loses His Way is the best book of his that I have read . . . Houghton’s talent is at its best.' - Graham Greene, The Spectator'Fascinating, absorbing reading . . . an arresting book.' - Kirkus Reviews'He is an extremely interesting novelist, and a genuinely original one.' - J. B. PriestleyShortly after dawn, Ju...
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    25,00 €

  • Neighbours
    Claude Houghton
    '[G]rew upon me with every page, until I came to the dramatic climax . . . often brilliant . . . [with] the brilliance of fever, almost of delirium.' - Punch'It is very shocking . . . [Houghton] has proved himself to possess considerable talent.' - Spectator'Neighbours is a novel about ideas concerning life. It is full of dialogue, and good dialogue. It has beautiful moments. I...
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    22,80 €

  • I Am Jonathan Scrivener
    Claude Houghton
    'So remarkable in truth is this novel that I cannot understand why it is not universally known and admired.' - Hugh Walpole'I Am Jonathan Scrivener remains a tantalizing, highly diverting philosophical novel of rare elegance and wit.' - Michael DirdaJames Wrexham is thirty-nine, lonely, and stuck in a dead-end job when he comes upon an advertisement for a position as secretary ...
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    25,03 €

  • This Was Ivor Trent
    Claude Houghton
    'An extremely interesting novelist, and a genuinely original one.' - J. B. Priestley'One of the most interesting and one of the most important novelists now writing in England.' - Hugh Walpole'At his best, he writes as well as any living man.' - L.A.G. StrongOne dark, foggy night, the eminent novelist Ivor Trent is on his way to a flat in a sordid London lodging house where he ...
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    21,26 €