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This Above All

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Prudence is the young privileged daughter of an established and upper-middle class British family. Clive is a mystery man she meets in a seaside town in the days just following Dunkirk. Is he in the service? Hard to say. She is, and it's a bit of a culture shock for her having to mix with women from all social classes, their loudness and vulgarity drive her half mad. Clive is from the opposute end of the social scale, but his rough taciturn manliness inspires Prue to do something terribly daring, she takes a forbidden sex holiday with him and checks into a beach hotel for an extended plkeasure tour. For who knows when they will meet again and in the shadow of the Blitz lovers must cling to each other now or never.

THIS ABOVE ALL became a successful film during the war, with Joan Fontaine as Prudence. She was perfectly cast in the part and helped make it a huge success. For modern readers, THIS ABOVE ALL is what my wife's Dad used to call a "talk you to death," but there are many interesting parts, and the book as a whole is embedded with a social consciousness that Hollywood made light of, the world Clive hails from is the brutal, violent, surly world of lower class Britons in the days following the General Strike, the world Orwell hinted at in his early novels and one which our contemporary Pat Barker strives to illuminate. You may love this book as millions did way back when.

This book of Eric Knight is really a fantastic one with is greatly composed philosophic-romantic story. While reading you live the life of a strange but loving couple and think of great questions of mankind as well. You will be much poorer in feelings, if you don't read this book.

I really enjiyed this hard to find book by Eric Knight. Well known for his Lassie books, this is a thoughtful book about people coping during World War II. This is the book uponwhich the movie was based, Very atmospheric and evocative of the period.

Im sorry, I havent read the book " This above all" by Eric Knight. I have what I believe to be an origional 1941 signed edition. A note in the book indicates it was signed while attending a writers conference in Boulder Colorado in the summer of 1941. The book also contains news paper clippings about the author and his life and death. The book is in great shape. I was hoping I could obtain some information and an estimate to its value.

Thank you

Monte