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Kept

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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

  KEPT. Copyright © 2007 by D. J. Taylor. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

  Mobipocket Reader July 2008 ISBN 978-0-06-169858-3

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  * See Appendix I.

  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

  About the Author

  Other Books by D. J. Taylor

  Copyright

  About the Publisher

 

 

 


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