Derelicts
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A striking return for a classic british novel, restored for today's readers and tomorrow's honours. A quiet ship of a book that sets sail on the crowded streets and crowded minds of an era. Derelicts mesmerizes with its keen social gaze and a climate of disillusionment and aspiration that still resonates. In measured, luminous prose, William J. Locke observes a british metropolis and an interwar europe backdrop where opportunity and restraint collide. The novel's inner weather-urban regret and ambition-drives intimate portraits of character while offering wide, humane commentary on class, desi...
A striking return for a classic british novel, restored for today's readers and tomorrow's honours. A quiet ship of a book that sets sail on the crowded streets and crowded minds of an era. Derelicts mesmerizes with its keen social gaze and a climate of disillusionment and aspiration that still resonates. In measured, luminous prose, William J. Locke observes a british metropolis and an interwar europe backdrop where opportunity and restraint collide. The novel's inner weather-urban regret and ambition-drives intimate portraits of character while offering wide, humane commentary on class, desire, and the stubborn pull of circumstance. It's early twentieth century fiction that pays sharp attention to period drama without ever losing human scale. Historically significant and artistically exact, the work sits among the notable currents of similar works in british fiction, inviting both casual readers and serious collectors to savour its quiet profundities and its elegant seafaring echoes in memory and mood. This edition by Alpha Editions is more than a reprint; it is a carefully revived artifact, a collector's item and a cultural treasure, meticulously restored for today's and future generations. Whether you seek a powerful historical fiction experience, or a literary fiction portrait of a city, this is the kind of book that rewards attentive reading and keeps the conversation alive among fans of classic seafaring novels and classic british fiction alike.
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