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They Knew Mr. Knight

Dorothy Whipple
4.28/5 (490 ratings)
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The Blakes are an ordinary family: Celia looks after the house and Thomas works at the family engineering business in Leicester. The book begins when he meets Mr Knight, a financier as crooked as any on the front pages of our newspapers nowadays; and tracks his and his family's swift climb and fall. .Part of the cause of the ensuing tragedy is Celia's innocence - blinkered by domesticity, she and her children are the 'victim of the turbulence of the outside world' (Postscript); but finally, through 'quiet tenacity and the refusal to let go of certain precious things, goodness does win out' (Afterword). And the "TLS" wrote: 'The portraits in the book are fired by Mrs Whipple's article of faith - the supreme importance of people.'
Format:
Pages:
484 pages
Publication:
2000
Publisher:
Persephone Books
Edition:
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
1903155088
ISBN13:
9781903155080
kindle Asin:
B01CPM6H0W

They Knew Mr. Knight

Dorothy Whipple
4.28/5 (490 ratings)
Read Download
The Blakes are an ordinary family: Celia looks after the house and Thomas works at the family engineering business in Leicester. The book begins when he meets Mr Knight, a financier as crooked as any on the front pages of our newspapers nowadays; and tracks his and his family's swift climb and fall. .Part of the cause of the ensuing tragedy is Celia's innocence - blinkered by domesticity, she and her children are the 'victim of the turbulence of the outside world' (Postscript); but finally, through 'quiet tenacity and the refusal to let go of certain precious things, goodness does win out' (Afterword). And the "TLS" wrote: 'The portraits in the book are fired by Mrs Whipple's article of faith - the supreme importance of people.'
Format:
Pages:
484 pages
Publication:
2000
Publisher:
Persephone Books
Edition:
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
1903155088
ISBN13:
9781903155080
kindle Asin:
B01CPM6H0W

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