Give us this day

This concluding volume in the author's saga of the Swann family begins at the time of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee and ends with the guns of August, 1914.

First sentence: ON THE MORNING OF HIS SEVENTEENTH BIRTHDAY, in the Jubilee month of June, 1897, Adam Swann, one-time cavalryman, subsequently haulier extraordinary, now landscaper and connoisseur, picked up his Times, turned his back on an erupting household and stumped down the curving drive to his favourite summer vantage point, a knoll sixty feet above the level of the lake overlooking the rustic building ente

Year

1973

Language

English

Publisher

Carroll & Graf

Editions

1

Pages

768

ISBN

9780786709137

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