The Dark Lantern – Henry Williamson

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Book ID: 48437 | Title: The Dark Lantern | Author: Henry Williamson | Category: Fiction | Binding: Softcover | Edition: | Publisher: | Condition: Good

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Book ID: 48437 | Title: The Dark Lantern | Author: Henry Williamson | Category: Fiction | Binding: Softcover | Edition: | Publisher: | Condition: Good

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The Dark Lantern (1951) was the first of Henry Williamson's fifteen-volume A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlightspanning the years from the late Victorian period to the Second World War. In it we meet Richard Maddison, a countryman working in London as a City clerk, struggling to make do on a few shillings a week. He falls for Hetty Turner, youngest daughter of a prosperous merchant, but her father rates Richard an unsuitable suitor. 'There is magic in Henry Williamson's novel . . . which raises it right out of the family saga class. The magic is of the steam train age of South London which is so lovingly described.' John Betjeman , Daily Telegraph 'Williamson's style is romantic, though rarely sentimental, and his sensuous response to nature is fresh and surprising.' Anthony Burgess, Ninety-Nine Novels: The Best in English since 1939