by D. J. Taylor
BY THE SAME AUTHOR
FICTION
Great Eastern Land
Real Life
English Settlement
After Bathing at Baxters: Stories
Trespass
The Comedy Man
NONFICTION
A Vain Conceit: British Fiction in the 1980s
Other People: Portraits from the Nineties
(with Marcus Berkmann)
After the War: The Novel and England since 1945
Thackeray
Orwell: The Life
On the Corinthian Spirit: The Decline of Amateurism in Sport
Copyright
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Table of Contents
Epigraph
Part One
I. Eggmen
II. Mr. Henry Ireland and His Leavings
III. Some Correspondence
IV. The Goods are Delivered
V. Esther’s Story
VI. Singular History of Mr. Pardew
VII. Curious Behaviour of Mr. Crabbe
VIII. Jorrocks’s Cart
Part Two
IX. Esther’s Story Continued
X. The Confidential Clerk
XI. Isabel
XII. Dealings with the Firm of Pardew & Co
XIII. “Not in Earnest!”
Part Three
XIV. The Dean and His Daughter
XV. Downriver
XVI. “The Black Dog Knows My Name”
XVII. Mr. Richard Farrier
XVIII. Sub Rosa
Part Four
XIX. North of Sixty
XX. Roman À Clef
XXI. A Morning in the Life of Captain McTurk
XXII. An Afternoon in Ely
XXIII. A Night’s Work
Part Five
XXIV. Captain McTurk Makes Progress
XXV. Esther in London
XXVI. Thoroughness of Mr. Masterson
XXVII. Flies and Spiders
XXVIII. Questions and Answers
XXIX. The Firm of Pardew & Co. is Wound Up
XXX. Some Destinies
Appendix I. Lost, Stolen or Strayed: On a Vanished Young Lady
Appendix II. Joe Pearce: History of a Varmint
Notes
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