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Fortitude
Sir Hugh Walpole
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"'Fair fight, Sam Burstead,' I says.
"'Yer bloody pirate!' says 'e.
"'Pirate, is it?' says I, landing him one—and at that first feel of my 'and along o' 'is cheek all these devils that I've been sufferin' from just turned tail and fled.
"Lord, I give it 'im! Lord, I give it 'im!
"He's living, I reckon, but that's about all 'e is doing. And then, without a word to 'er, I come away, and here I am, a free man … and to-morrer marning I go out to tramp the world a bit—and to come back one day when she wants me."
And then in Peter there suddenly leapt to life a sense of battle, of glorious combat and conflict.
As he stood there in the bare kitchen—he and Stephen there under the light of t. . . Read More
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Community Reviews
I picked this book up in a charity shop, and it was the book that first took me into the wonderful world of Hugh Walpole's writing.
From the moment I read the first words 'Tis not life that matters, but the courage you bring to it' I knew that this author was going to be a true literary friend. It le
I am fascinated by this book now as much as I was at age 14, but with more understanding. It's essentially about escaping the downward pull of a dark childhood and emerging not into happiness, but into light.
For some readers, there are passages that might be too purple, but I think they work well wi
In my post-Twitter, time-to-read-the-classics self-improvement, self-exploration phase, this book was on the top of the pile.
Why?
Well, funny coincidence: I bought it a while ago because someone I had admired on Twitter and with whom I'd had a few casual exchanges, nothing of depth or meaning, had go
This book introduces us to young Peter Westcott, who overcomes a difficult childhood in Cornwall and eventually makes good as an author in London. The first part of the book is about his difficult public school experience, which biographers of Mr. Walpole suggest was based on Mr. Walpole's personal
I found this rather over-written at times, and I have a an almost unbounded appetite for meaty prose. The last few pages especially needed a bit of editing. On the whole a great book, though, with some wonderful characters, two excellently written small boys one of whom gets completely forgotten....more
What more tempting place can there be than a library's used bookstore? In this case, the venue was the Berkeley Public Library's store, and the find was a Hugh Walpole novel. I knew almost nothing about Walpole other than his name being notable, and nothing at all about this book, but what a great p