H. B. Creswell

The Honeywood File (eBook, ePUB)

An Adventure in Building

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This classic epistolary novel wittily documents the trials and tribulations of a young English architect as he designs and builds a mansion.

In this first US publication of a richly comic classic-originally published in England in the 1920s-the pitfalls and vicissitudes of home building are presented in sharp and unforgettable detail, in the form of letters to and from the architect-a hapless young man named James Spinlove, who, in his valiant attempts to create the Honeywood mansion for Sir Leslie Brash, encounters a motley collection of contractors, surveyors, plumbers and town planners-to say nothing of intensely litigious lawyers, and Sir Leslie Brash himself, along with his good lady. There are letters from the subsidiary but crucial characters named Nibnose & Rasper, Mr. Snitch, V. Potch, and Hoochkoft the surveyor of bricks, among others.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Chicago Review Press
• Seitenzahl: 242
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Mai 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780897336611
• Artikelnr.: 52217669