Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky
10 best books like Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky (Patrick Hamilton): The Way We Live Now, The House in Paris, London Belongs to Me, Under the Volcano, Parade's End, New Grub Street, Of Love and Hunger, The Long Week-End: A Social History of Great Britain, 1918-39, An Ice-Cream War, First Light
| Author | Anthony Trollope |
| ISBN | 1853262552 |
”There are a thousand little silly softnesses which are pretty and endearing between acknowledged lovers, with which no woman would like to dispense, to which even men who are in love submit sometimes with delight; but which in other circumstances would be vulgar,— and to the woman distasteful....
| Author | Elizabeth Bowen |
| ISBN | 0385721250 |
One of Elizabeth Bowen’s most artful and psychologically acute novels, The House in Paris is a timeless masterpiece of nuance and construction, and represents the very best of Bowen’s celebrated work.
When eleven-year-old Henrietta arrives at the Fishers’ well-appointed house...
| Author | Norman Collins |
| ISBN | 0141442336 |
Also known as Dulcimer Street, Norman Collins's London Belongs to Me is a Dickensian romp through working-class London on the eve of the Second World War. This Penguin Modern Classics edition includes an introduction by Ed Glinert, author of The London Compendium.
It is 1938 and the prospect...
| Author | Malcolm Lowry |
| ISBN | 0060955228 |
Geoffrey Firmin, a former British consul, has come to Quauhnahuac, Mexico. His debilitating malaise is drinking, an activity that has overshadowed his life. On the most fateful day of the consul's life—the Day of the Dead—his wife, Yvonne, arrives in Quauhnahuac, inspired by a vision of life...
| Author | Ford Madox Ford |
| ISBN | 0141186615 |
In creating his acclaimed masterpiece Parade's End, Ford Madox Ford wanted the Novelist in fact to appear in his really proud position as historian of his own time . . . The 'subject' was the world as it culminated in the war. Published in four parts between 1924 and 1928, his extraordinary novel centers...
| Author | George Gissing |
| ISBN | 0140430326 |
In New Grub Street George Gissing re-created a microcosm of London's literary society as he had experienced it. His novel is at once a major social document and a story that draws us irresistibly into the twilit world of Edwin Reardon, a struggling novelist, and his friends and acquaintances in Grub...
| Author | Julian Maclaren-Ross |
| ISBN | 0141187115 |
An interesting novel set in 1939 in the months before the start of war. It opens a window of an England now mostly disappeared; landladies, jobs easy to get and lots of smoking!!. However the themes of love and loss are eternal. The shadow of war is ever present. The main character isn't likeable but the...
| Author | Robert Graves |
| ISBN | 0393311368 |
"The long week-end" is Robert Grave's and Alan Hodge's evocative phrase for the period in Great Britain's social history between the twin devastations of the Great War and World War II. With brilliant wit and trenchant judgments they offer a scintillating survey of seemingly everything that went...
| Author | William Boyd |
| ISBN | 0375705023 |
An Ice-Cream War was the debut novel of William Boyd who would go on to be recognized as 'the finest storyteller of his generation' (Sebastian Faulks). It follows the fortunes of several wildly different characters - including an expat farmer and a young English aristocrat - as they are swept up in the...
| Author | Geoffrey Wellum |
| ISBN | 0141008148 |
"In First Light, Geoffrey Wellum tells the inspiring, often terrifying true story of his coming of age amid the roaring, tumbling dogfights of the fiercest air war the world had ever seen.
It is the story of an idealistic schoolboy who couldn't believe his luck when the RAF agreed to take him...
