Buy this book on-line BALCHIN, NIGEL: : LORD, I WAS AFRAIDLONDON.COLLINS,1947. ISBN No ISBN.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.VG/VG.No owner inscrptn and price-clip to dw/dj.Fairly clean,brown background with white lettering to front and spine,rear panel with white background and brown lettered critics' reviews and showing some sporadic foxing/spotting; with negligible shelf- wear or creasing to edges and corners - some minor nicks or closed tears present along with some rubbing and miniscule loss in places to dw/dj's edges.Both head+foot of dw/dj spine ae chipped,creased with minimal loss.Top edges slightly dust-soiled and darkened,fore-edges brighter and cleaner; contents generally bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - near pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation.Bright,clean,sharp-cornered, publisher's original plain dark brown cloth boards with some minimal but faint mottling spots and bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip and plain white endpapers with some minor grubbing/markings.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,9-320pp [paginated] includes a prologue, sections in Acts/scenes form,an epilogue; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,biblical extract (Matthew XXV.,24 and 25.),and prologue separator page.
This is not a Nigel Balchin novel in the ordinary sense.In fact it cannot be described technically as a novel at all.The subject is one on which the author has meditated and worked on for ten years - the subject of his own generation,its nature,its faults,virtues,and direction if any.To say what he has to say Mr Balchin has composed a kind of super-play,using the devices of the theatre on a scale that transcends the possibilities of any theatre. Seven characters represent seven different types of the generation that came to maturity after the 1914-18 war. hey are tried out against many and various situations to see how they respond and what is in them.The analysis is both wide and deep,the verdict severe yet compassionate. The author will not allow the plea that special circumstances made life for his generation too difficult,but holds them up to the enduring tests of courage,honesty and good faith.The reader will probably agree with him that they emerge no worse than other generations.
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