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The Dark Lantern
About this book
The Dark Lantern (1951) was the first of Henry Williamson's fifteen-volume
A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlightspanning the years from the late Victorian period to the Second World War. In it we meet Richard Maddison, a countryman working in London as a City clerk, struggling to make do on a few shillings a week. He falls for Hetty Turner, youngest daughter of a prosperous merchant, but her father rates Richard an unsuitable suitor.
'There is magic in Henry Williamson's novel . . . which raises it right out of the family saga class. The magic is of the steam train age of South London which is so lovingly described.' John Betjeman
, Daily Telegraph
'Williamson's style is romantic, though rarely sentimental, and his sensuous response to nature is fresh and surprising.' Anthony Burgess,
Ninety-Nine Novels: The Best in English since 1939
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Landing Page
- Title Page
- Contents
- Part One: CAMBERWELL BEAUTY
- Part Two: HETTY’S BIRTHDAY PARTY
- Part Three: NEW HOME
- Part Four: WINTER OF 1894–95
- Part Five: DEATH AND RESURRECTION
- By the Same Author
- Copyright