Charles Langbridge Morgan: 2 books

Charles Langbridge Morgan, playwright and novelist of English and Welsh parentage, author of The Gunroom. The main themes of his work were, as he himself put it, "Art, Love, and Death", and the relation between them. Themes range from the paradoxes of freedom, through passionate love seen from within and without, to the conflict of good and evil and the enchanted boundary of death.

Late on an afternoon in September a boy, wearing a naval mackintosh and a felt hat, came out of Torquay railway-station and hailed a cab. His figure, his voice, and his manner, which was nervous and a little self-conscious, suggested that his age was about eighteen. He took a handful of change out...