Lost empires : being Richard Herncastle's account of his life on the variety stage from November 1913 to August 1914 together with a prologue and epilogue

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Lost empires : being Richard Herncastle's account of his life on the variety stage from November 1913 to August 1914 together with a prologue and epilogue

by J.B. Priestley

Mandarin, 1993

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Originally published: Heinemann, 1965

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Description

Priestley's nostalgic novel set in the last years of the England that disappeared for ever in World War I. In 1913, young Richard Herncastle exchanges his office stool for a life of adventure, joining his uncle's illusionist act on the variety stage, and awakening to the worlds of love and sex.

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Details

  • NCID
    BA31144698
  • ISBN
    • 0749313935
  • Country Code
    uk
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    London
  • Pages/Volumes
    xii, 308 p.
  • Size
    20cm
  • Classification
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