John Randall Fulleymore Ransome, called Ranny, is born in the eighties over a shabby chemist’s shop in Wandsworth High Street, a clerk with the soul of an adventurer. His gymnasium friendships and the girls he meets there lead him into a marriage that tangles his life like a figure in a maze.
A compassionate study of lower-middle-class London lives by one of the finest Edwardian novelists. Download the free EPUB.