The Archive · 1940

Have You Read——?

Move, you come across a novel called "That State of Life"

Brown? It wi you may hav You to got hold of it, T bow Chance second-hand on a railway bookstall to beguile " tedious journey and for a piece of real human comedy delightfully written with characters that five in every line Ihave not seen its equal for a long time.

'The father, a Teadinst London doc-lor, his first wife being dead, marries fa girl below him in station' who has been knocked down by a taxi at his door, Of his two children Audrey, Selieving herself a Communist, takes with @ young shopman in a two-sonny lending library, while the son alls violently in love with a married woman whom he idealizes in the istal to ealt love, only to find she is very common stut indeed. The situations thus provoked are delicious. In the end Noelle, the step-acted back to her own ndsome young leader

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