1920. English novelist Macaulay's early novels were noted for their wit, urbanity and mild satire. Potterism begins: Johnny and Jane Potter, being twins, went through Oxford together. Johnny came up from Rugby and Jane from Roedean. Johnny was at Balliol and Jane at Somerville. Both, having ambitions for literary careers, took the Honours School of English Language and Literature. They were ordinary enough young people; clever without being brilliant, nice-looking without being handsome, active without being athletic, keen without being earnest, popular without being leaders, openhanded without being generous, as revolutionary, as selfish, and as intellectually snobbish as was proper to their years, and inclined to be jealous one of the other, but linked together by common tastes and by a deep and bitter distaste for their father's newspapers, which were many, and for their mother's novels, which were more. These were, indeed, not fit for perusal at Somerville and Balliol. The danger had been that Somerville and Balliol, till they knew you well, should not know you knew it. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.
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Lady Pinkerton, Lord Pinkerton, Oliver Hobart, Arthur Gideon, Leila Yorke, Katherine Varick, Johnny Potter, Daily Haste, Aunt Cynthia, Clare Potter, Potter's Bar, Miss Clare, Anti-Potter League, Weekly Fact, Fleet Street, Boris Stefan, Blue Book, Labour Party, Frank Potter, Evening Hustle, Lloyd George, John Bull, Amy Ayres Browse Sample Pages:
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