The childhood of Lucian Taylor in rural Wales is recounted, particularly the old Roman fort where Lucian has strange, sensual visions of the town in the time of Roman Britain. Further description of... More > Lucian's adult attempts to make a living as an author in London, and the poverty and suffering that is found in the pursuit of art.< Less
The Three Impostors is a convoluted tale about three individuals who we meet in the opening paragraphs who are searching for a "young man with spectacles" who has inadvertently stolen... More > something of great importance to a secret society of which they are members.< Less
For no apparent reason, ordinary people living alone in the deep country are found dead -- an entire family slaughtered outside their home, a man drowned in just a few feet of water, a woman mangled... More > at the bottom of a quarry. In this last case, "there was a dead sheep lying beside her in the pit, as if the woman and the sheep together had been chased over the brim of the quarry. But chased by whom, or by what?"< Less
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