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The dining-room battle
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The "workers of the dining-room" including the spoons and forks, cruets, racks, etc. have long resented the mantelpiece ornaments for their airs. However, when the mantelpiece marble clock stops, it … |
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The stairs that kept going down
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Sir Compton Mackenzie |
In the London house his family occupies, a ten-year-old boy discovers a secret, seemingly endless, staircase that leads him to the scene of a crime. |
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Thin Ice
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Sir Compton Mackenzie |
Perhaps it was strange that George Gaymer should have become a friend of Henry Fortescue at Oxford in the last years of the 19th century. Politically they were poles apart. Henry, already President o… |
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Achilles
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Sir Compton Mackenzie |
Classical mythology is deftly retold by a master storyteller in these legends of four Greek heroes. Their great expeditions of conquest and defeat - ventures abetted by supernatural gods and monsters… |
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Sinister Street
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Sir Compton Mackenzie |
<p>Michael Fane arrives in the thin red house in Carlington Road to his new family of Nurse, Cook, Annie the housemaid, his younger sister Stella, and the occasional presence of Mother. From here, th… |
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Whisky galore
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Humour |
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