The Secret City: (Hugh Walpole Classics Collection), by Hugh Walpole
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There are certain things that I feel, as I look through this bundle of manuscript, that I must say. The first is that of course no writer ever has fulfilled his intention and no writer ever will; secondly, that there was, when I began, another intention than that of dealing with my subject adequately, namely that of keeping myself outside the whole of it; I was to be, in the most abstract and immaterial sense of the word, a voice, and that simply because this business of seeing Russian psychology through English eyes has no excuse except that it is English. That is its only interest, its only atmosphere, its only motive, and if you are going to tell me that any aspect of Russia psychological, mystical, practical, or commercial seen through an English medium is either Russia as she really is or Russia as Russians see her, I say to you, without hesitation, that you don't know of what you are talking.
The Secret City: (Hugh Walpole Classics Collection), by Hugh Walpole- Published on: 2015-03-17
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.00" h x .75" w x 6.00" l, .99 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 332 pages
About the Author Hugh Walpole was born in Auckland, New Zealand, in 1884, before moving to England. He wrote a great many books, of which Mr Perrin and Mr Traill was his favourite. He died in London in 1941.
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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful. The Secret Plot..... By B. Morse I eagerly purchased this book after reading the description on the back. It purported to be Walpole's 'masterpiece' according to the Daily Telegraph, and apparently was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction in 1919.Set at the time of the Russian revolution (for clarity, the second one, not the first) I spent the entire 446 pages waiting for something, anything, to grab me as either a plot, or a central thread, or even a connection really as to what this book was about.Divided into three sections, the book follows many lives intertwined by different arrivals in Petrograd, Russia, and a family already living there. There is vague mention of a 'monster sighting' beneath a frozen river....there is political intrigue...there is a love story...and there is the revolution. But sadly, none of these themes ever emerges victorious over the others in captivating a reader's interest, at least this reader, and by the end of the tale you are left wondering what you just read.There are far better portraits of revolutionary Russia, pre-, during, and post-, written by native authors. I highly recommend their works over this one, as it never fully hit the mark, and having recently read my first Tolstoy, I was far more convinced of the landscape painted by him than I was by Walpole's.Other novels by the same author sound intriguing, but this is, in my humble opinion, not one to get very excited about. His writing style is good, his characters are realistic, but his story overall left me quite flat, as I was never quite able to determine what it really was.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. Secret City worth the Struggle By Book Dame This is a book that needs to be really read, if you are looking for light entertainment, it's probably not going to do it for you. There are many layers to this onion, and it takes a dedicated reader to find its gems. It's worth the read just to evolve, as the characters do, into a more understanding person of those different from us.
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