Mr. Perrin and Mr. Traill [antikvár]

Hugh Walpole was born in New Zealand in 1884. When he was still very young, his family returned to England and later he was educated at King's School, Canterbury, at Durham School and at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. It was after leaving Cambridge in 1907 that he came to the decision recorded in his autoblography, ' The Crystal Box ': ' I vowed that I would be a novelist, good or bad, for the remainder of my earthly days.' After a short period as a teacher at Epsom College, Walpole settled in London in 1909 and from then until his death in 1941 he wrote with unceasing energy. The forty volumes, novels and short stories, that Walpole wrote were well within the main stream of English fiction. In his work he is influenced by several writers -especially Sir Walter Scott and Charles Reade. This is particularly notable in such historical romances as the four works of ' The Herries Chronicles '. Another influence was that of Róbert Louis Stevenson whose gift for the presentation of macabre situations, as shown in ' Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde ', undoubtedly influenced Walpole in such novels as ' Portrait of a Man with Red Hair ' or ' Above the Dark Circus '. A third influence was certainly that of Anthony Trollope. ' The Cathedral' and ' The Old Ladies ' belong to the same tradition of writing as ' Dr. Thorne ' or ' Barchester Towers ' Mr. Perrin and Mr. Traill ' was written and published in 1911. It was based on Walpole's experiences as a schoolmaster. It is a study of hatred and jealousy and of the disintegration of personality. The növel is one of Walpole's best-Walpole referred to it as { My truest