Название: The Friendly Ones
Автор: Philip Hensher
Издательство: HarperCollins
Жанр: Историческая литература
isbn: 9780008175665
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Copyright © Philip Hensher 2018
Cover image by Albert Anker (1831–1910)
Kleinkinderschule auf der Kirchenfeldbrücke, 1900, oil on canvas
Gottfried Keller-Stiftung, Bundesamt für Kultur, Bern
Depositum im Kunstmuseum Bern
Extract from ‘Second’ taken from Happiness by Jack Underwood (Faber & Faber). Copyright © Jack Underwood, 2015. Reproduced by permission of Faber & Faber Ltd.
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Source ISBN: 9780008175641
Ebook edition: March 2018 ISBN: 9780008175665
Version: 2018-01-30
For Zaved Mahmood, of course
If I lived in a cave and you were my only visitor,
what would I tell you that the walls had told me?
That people are unfinished and are made between
each other …
JACK UNDERWOOD, ‘Second’
… amid the millions of this great city it is difficult to discover who these people are or what their object can be …
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE, The Hound of the Baskervilles
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