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Kingsley, H: Hillyars and the Burtons

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Formát: Paperback
Jazyk: Anglický jazyk
ISBN: 9781334156274

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Excerpt from The Hillyars and the Burtons: A Story of Two Families

Chelsea Old Church is indeed a marvellous storehouse of memories. To know all that it might be to an imaginative youth and to a gifted man of letters one must read the book before us The Hillyars and the Burtons. The Kingsleys are themselves no inconsiderable memory in Chelsea. The aged father lived at the Rectory for many years, and thence sent his sons out into the world - Charles to be Vicar of Eversley, a Canon of Westminster, a poet, a novelist, and many things besides; George to be a doctor of medicine, a brilliant conversationalist, and a man who might have done something; and Henry, the youngest, to be an Australian colonist, a novelist and journalist, and the literary artist of the Chelsea of sixty years since, who, indeed, has given us in The Hillyars and the Burtons the prose epic of that fascinating suburb. Henry Kingsley went to that church often as a boy, and he has put into the mouth of the young blacksmith, James Burton, some wonderfully vivid impressions of the scene.

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