Leonard Merrick

All the World Wondered and Other Stories

The Works of Leonard Merrick: While Paris laughed

The Worldlings

The Works of Leonard Merrick: The man who was good

To Tell You the Truth

Describes the history, equipment, and contemporary practice of bicycle stunt riding.

The Little Dog Laughed

Cynthia

Whispers about Women

Works

The Quaint Companions

Reproduction of the original: Conrad in Quest of His Youth by Leonard Merrick

Conrad in Quest of His Youth

Excerpt from This Stage of Fools The description was not very attractive to the Oxford man, but being already uncomfortably conscious that his uncle did not think much of him, he made a gallant attempt to simulate an alacrity he could not feel. The introductions were duly effected, and, having procured a licence, Willy embarked on his career as a diamond broker without delay, equipped with a morocco-leather satchel furnished with many pockets, and designed to carry all the parcels that should be entrusted to him. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

This Stage of Fools (Classic Reprint)

Lynch's Daughter

The House of Lynch

When Love Flies Out O' the Window

A Novel

The Man who was Good

A Chair on the Boulevard is a collection of humorous short stories written by Leonard Merrick. In this collection of charming comedic short stories, Merrick's witty insight shines through. Leonard Merrick (21 February 1864 – 7 August 1939) was an English novelist. Although largely forgotten today, he was widely admired by his peers, J. M. Barrie called Merrick the "novelist's novelist." He was born as Leonard Miller in Belsize Park, London of Jewish parentage. After schooling at Brighton College, he studied to be a solicitor in Brighton and studied law at Heidelberg, but he was forced to travel to South Africa at the age of eighteen after his father suffered a serious financial loss. There he worked as an overseer in the Kimberley diamond mine and in a solicitors office. After surviving a near-fatal case of "camp fever," he returned to London in the late 1880s and worked as an actor and actor-manager under the stage name of Leonard Merrick. He legally changed his name to Leonard Merrick in 1892. He later worked his experiences in South Africa and in the theatre into numerous works of fiction. Merrick's novels include Mr Bazalgette's Agent (1888), a detective story; Violet Moses (1891), about a Jewish financier and his troubled wife; The Worldlings (1900), a psychological investigation of a crime; Conrad in Quest of His Youth (1903), the tale of a disillusioned man who, at thirty- seven, sets out to pick up the romantic threads of his younger life, it is "judged his most successful work" according to John Sutherland. George Orwell thought that this is because it is one of the few of his books which is not set against a background of poverty.

A Chair on the Boulevard

Cynthia is a novel by Leonard Merrick. A married couple moves to Paris and finds that they are soon desperately short of cash and must find a way to survive and rise up again in order to not become outcasts within their social standing.

With an Introduction by Maurice Hewlett

Cynthia, a Daughter of the Philistines

Leonard Merrick

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