Sir Compton Mackenzie

Sinister Street (Twentieth Century Classics)

Compton Mackenzie

Lesbische sleutelroman o.a. over Radclyffe Hall en Una Troubridge.

Theme and Variations

Extraordinary Women

Sinister Street

Guy Hazlewood, a recent Oxford graduate, has thrown up both the consular career he once thought of, and the opportunity to teach at his father’s school, in favour of retiring to the country on limited resources to become a poet. He chooses the idyllic village of Wychford somewhere near Oxford. Almost immediately, he meets the daughters of the local vicar and falls for the youngest, Pauline, who returns his love. Various obstacles are thrown in the way of their slow courtship, including family doubts on both sides; rural conventions; financial problems; and the conflict between Guy’s sophistication and intellectual pretensions and Pauline’s innocence, strong religious belief and lack of education. The longer their engagement lasts, the more these issues come to the fore until Guy and Pauline reach a crisis and have to decide if their love is worth fighting for.

Guy and Pauline

The Later Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett

Sylvia & Michael

The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett

A Historical Grammar of Poetic Myth

The White Goddess

The Parson's Progress

Being Book[s] Iv of T̀he Four Winds of Love.'

The North Wind of Love

The Four Winds of Love: The north wind of love

The West Wind of Love

The story of love and friendships over three generations, from the late Victorian years to the thirties, consisting of four books.

Being Book One of 'The Four Winds of Love'

The East Wind of Love

In this uproariously funny story, the setting is the enchanting Hebridean islands of Great Todday and Little Todday, in which the inhabitants are more concerned with the replenishment of their supplies of whisky than with the defence of the Islands against the enemy. All our old friends - Sergeant-Major Odd and his charming Peggy (whom he successfully carries off), Captain Waggett, Father Macalister, the Macroons and the MacRuries - are here again, and their activities in connection with the wreck of the S.S. Cabinet Minister, loaded to the gunwales with whisky for America, give full scope to Compton Mackenzie's hilarious wit.

Sir Compton Mackenzie

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