Portsmouth
by the author of the play Journey's End and also of Persephone favourites The Fortnight in September and Greengates and first published in 1939
For the endpapers we used a 1936 woodblock-printed curtain fabric designed and hand-printed on linen by Margaret Calkin James for the schoolroom at 'Hornbeams'
Its vivid descriptions of mid-twentieth century life in British Columbia
a capacity for groping about int he emotions of her characters till she arrives at a truth and a prevalent tone of pity for the pain that human beings inevitably inflict upon one another
Reuben Sachs Category_Grey Books/Cookery Books PortsmouthPREFACE BY JULIA NEUBERGER 176pp ISBN 9781903155127 'Its directness, its uncompromising truths, its depth of feeling, and above all, its absence of any single superfluous word, make Reuben Sachs, in some sort, a classic.' Oscar Wilde The Persephone Books edition of Reuben Sachs is the first to appear in Britain since its original publication in 1888. It is about a couple who love each other, but his political ambitions demand money and she is poor,