Sinister Street, vol. 1

About This Book

Sinister Street was first published in two volumes, the first in 1913, the second in the following year. Henry James, in a letter to Hugh Walpole, described it as “really a very interesting and remarkable performance… at one and the same time so extremely young… and so confoundingly mature.”In an article, he named Compton Mackenzie as one of the four young novelists most likely to sustain the greatest traditions of English fiction.Year by year the novel has sold steadily and established itself as one of the classics of its age. It is the story of a young man who passed through a public school ...