Compton MacKenzie

In the novel Carnival, celebrated author Compton MacKenzie offers historical fiction fans the best of both worlds: a sweeping drama that brings to life the rural Scottish countryside and a gripping emotional account of the coming of age of one remarkable young girl, Jenny Pearl. Deemed shocking in its realism by critics at the time of the novel's publication, this slice of Scottish life is sure to please even the most discerning historical fiction enthusiasts.

Carnival

Sinister Street is a novel about growing up, and concerns two children, Michael Fane and his sister Stella have throught their young life. Both of them are born out of wedlock, something which was frowned upon at the time, but from rich parents. The novel had several sequels, which continue until Michael Fane's marriage.

Complete Edition

Sinister Street (Vol. 1&2)

In the troupe of variety actresses to which belonged that lively heroine, Sylvia Scarlett, there was one Miss Dorothy Lonsdale. She made an exalted marriage and became Countess of Clarehaven. The creator of Sylvia, Mr. Compton Mackenzie, now relates the adventures of. Miss Lonsdale, both before and after she became a peeress. This he does in his new novel, "The Vanity Girl" (Harper). It is a funny, frisky world, sometimes gay and often tawdry; Johnnies and peers and guardsmen and journalists and actor-managers and chorus-girls, and elderly relatives, puritanical and otherwise. Mr. Mackenzie handles it all in exactly the right spirit, never mawkish and never brutal. He is satirical, but not youthfully cynical like the painful Mr. Aldous Huxley. Although I think his clock struck twelve with the novel called "Sylvia Scarlett," I wish that he may live a hundred years and go on writing novels about every one of the Vanity chorus. -The Weekly Review, Vol. 3

The Vanity Girl

Sinister Street

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Guy and Pauline" by Compton MacKenzie. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Guy and Pauline

This novel by Compton MacKenzie gives a picture of English life in the early part of the twentieth century. The story focuses on two years in the lives of two sisters. It begins with the arrival of a young man, Guy Hazlewood, and his many boxes of books. Plashers Mead is the name of the house that he has rented and tonight is going to be his first night there. It is empty, unkempt, and prone to flood (according to the pony trap driver who drives him there) but Guy has ambitions for the house and how it will look in the future.

A Novel

Plashers Mead

OUR house is very high and red, The steps are very white, The balcony is full of flowers, The knocker's very bright.

Kensington Rhymes

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Sylvia & Michael: The later adventures of Sylvia Scarlett" by Compton MacKenzie. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Sylvia & Michael: The later adventures of Sylvia Scarlett

The 1915 novel Plashers Mead is a sequel to the remarkably popular Sinister Street. The books follow the lives -- and loves -- of a pair of siblings who were born into a wealthy family, but without the benefit of holy matrimony. Lacking the benefits that come with an official birthright, the two try to make their way the best they can.

British author Compton MacKenzie was a brilliant chronicler of oddballs, eccentrics, and the clashes between classes. In Rich Relatives, he tells the story of fiercely independent Jasmine Grant, whose idyllic life in Italy is dashed to bits at the behest of her upper-class relations. Will she find a way to live life on her own terms?

Rich Relatives

The first of a two-volume series, Sinister Street, Volume One is a heavily autobiographical account of a young man, Michael Fane, who is the privileged but illegitimate child of a wealthy father. This volume presents an account of Michael's family background, his childhood and his prep school career.

Sinister Street, Volume One

Born into a prominent family of stage actors, author Compton MacKenzie was remarkably prolific and tackled a broad range of subjects and genres over the course of his lengthy literary career. The novel The Altar Steps offers an in-depth account of the internal and external struggles facing a young man who wants to follow his father into the ministry, but who is ambivalent about the political intrigue and drama that are rife in the religious world.

The Altar Steps

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