Hugh Pemberton: 2 books
An Affluent Society?
Britain's Post-War 'Golden Age' Revisited
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
During an election speech in 1957 the Prime Minister, Harold Macmillan, famously remarked that 'most of our people have never had it so good'. Although taken out of context, this phrase soon came to epitomize the sense of increased affluence and social progress that was prevalent in Britain during...
by Algernon Blackwood, Alan Graham, John Galsworthy
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2011
When Edward J. O'Brien asked me to cooperate with him in choosing each year's best English short stories, to be published as a companion volume to his annual selection of the best American short stories, I had not realized that at the end of my arduous task, which has involved the reading of many hundreds...