... The Tatler and Bystander Guide to Lunching, Dining and Dancing in Wartime London Maison Prunier IT was never to be expected that the indomitable Madame Prunier would for long permit the Luftwaffe to reduce her restaurant to half-pressure. So it is no ...

... should stay indoors and go to bed at ten like every other country-house guest And I explained that it was a professional point with me to dis cover how the man who genuinely lives in the country amuses himself in the evening. I discovered that he doesn't ...

... that hearts might be broken and happy endings be at a premium. But one can't have everything in wartime; and the scene, the drawing-room of an Irish country house, seemed to leave loopholes for comedy to elude the sterner impacts of tragedy, and to defy the ...

... hedgerows or knolls make across our landscape the dignity of tree-pillared avenues, and the relation of trees to towns and to country houses all this is a part of the British feeling for life? Two world wars in our century have taken a terribly heavy toll of ...

... kind The disappointing effects of country life on the author's children are also marked. In short, as Mr. Perelman's English publishers put it if you live in the country and don't want to, or if you don't live in the country and want to, this is the book ...

... lots and junk-heaps, sardine canneries of corrugated iron, honky-tonks, restaurants and whore-houses, and little crowded groceries, and laboratories and flop-houses. Its inhabitants are, as the man once said, whores, pimps, gamblers and sons of bitches, ...

... the country to try her fortunes in Fleet Street seeking somewhere to live, she establishes herself in the attic flat of an atmo spheric but decidedly ambiguous Jermyn Street house otherwise occupied by ladies of the demi-monde. Naivety and country goodness ...

... years of her unadmitted engagement to William Two Quiet Lives Asking; for Trouble Country Place What the Countryman Wants to Know Temple quietly at her father's house in Bedford shire much of the time she was, but for the saddened old man, alone. Lord ...

... room, shuttered under dust sheets, of an April fall of snow, of music from the fair at night, of the burnt-out shell of a country house, that woman seen a moment from the bus-top, brushing her hair before the glass I should feel that something was afoot. ...

... breakfast, in a country house thirty miles inland from the east coast. The year of the occurrence can be established, if you care to work it out, by a given clue Mortimer, in the course of the inauspicious meal announces I have lived in this house for fifty-four ...

... the forest-embraced great houses, with their his tories of conversation, revelry and love, have survived also. Ancient and many, the churches are full of monuments. I could ramble to and fro through Mr. Addison's treasure-house indefinitely and I must resist ...

... hoping to make gold. His attitude to his country was as complex, tormented, unsettled, as was his attitude to his women he passed years out of Sweden in Paris, Berlin, different parts of Switzerland, a country house in Moravia. There was one, unsatisfactory ...