Condition: Acceptable: Signs of wear and consistent use. One corner on the front and back borad is stained. All that remains of the original dust jacket is the inside flap. See images for the condition of this book. Blurb: One of E.Phillips Oppenheim's best works. This 1933 novel opens with a fantastic description of the boring, wearisome life of Mr. Peter Cradd, leather merchant, husband, father, slave to his family, stoic self denier, and all-around put upon man in the bowler hat. He is barely able to pay his bills, has a wife who seems him only as a wallet, and two children whose most favorable opinion of him is dissappointment. In true Oppenheim fashion, he answers a letter from a lawyer, and finds out that he has inherited a fortune. What he does with it, where he moves, how he educates himself, and whom he loves form the rest of the story. It's a great window into middle class life in England in the 30's and the dreams of downtrodden.
