THE BISHOP’S SHADOW
Frightened by some alarm of sleep that was forgotten
in the moment of waking, a little boy threw back the
bedclothes and with quick heart and breath sat listening
to the torr...
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Compton Mackenzie was one of the most prolific British authors of the twentieth century. His first book was published when he was in his mid-twenties and his last when he was nearly ninety. In fact, b...
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As an essayist Compton Mackenzie cultivated a tradition going back to Michel de Montaigne and Francis Bacon, of flights of introspective and descriptive writing, often autobiographical in focus, with ...
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The Altar Steps
Compton (Edward Montague) Mackenzie