The Secret City
by Hugh Walpole
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About This Book
There are certain things that I feel, as I look through this bundle of manuscript, that I must say. The first is that of course no writer ever has fulfilled his intention and no writer ever will; secondly, that there was, when I began, another intention than that of dealing with my subject adequately, namely that of keeping myself outside the whole of it; I was to be, in the most abstract and immaterial sense of the word, a voice, and that simply because this business of seeing Russian psychology through English eyes has no excuse except that it is English. That is its only interest, its only ...
Chapters (61)(click to expand)
- THE SECRET CITY
- A Novel In Three Parts
- New York George H. Doran Company
- 1919
- TO MAJOR JAMES ANNAND (15TH BATTALION 48TH HIGHLANDERS, C.E.F.) IN RETURN FOR THE GIFT OF HIS FRIENDSHIP
- PART I — VERA AND NINA
- I
- II
- III
- IV
- V
- VI
- VII
- VIII
- IX
- X
- XI
- XII
- XIII
- XIV
- XV
- XVI
- XVII
- XVIII
- XIX
- XX
- XXI
- XXII
- PART II — LAWRENCE
- I
- II
- III
- IV
- V
- VI
- VII
- VIII
- IX
- X
- XI
- XII
- XIII
- XIV
- PART III — MARKOVITCH AND SEMYONOV
- I
- II
- III
- IV
- V
- VI
- VII
- VIII
- IX
- X
- XI
- XII
- XIII
- XIV
- XV
- XVI
- THE END
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