There was a certain window between the kitchen and the pantry that was Hamlet's favourite. Thirty years ago-these chronicles are of the year 1894-the basements of houses in provincial English towns, even of large houses owned by rich people, were dark, chill, odourful caverns hissing with ill-burning gas and smelling of ill-cooked cabbage. The basement of the Coles' house in Polchester was as bad as any other, but this little window between the kitchen and the pantry was higher in the wall than the other basement windows, ...
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There was a certain window between the kitchen and the pantry that was Hamlet's favourite. Thirty years ago-these chronicles are of the year 1894-the basements of houses in provincial English towns, even of large houses owned by rich people, were dark, chill, odourful caverns hissing with ill-burning gas and smelling of ill-cooked cabbage. The basement of the Coles' house in Polchester was as bad as any other, but this little window between the kitchen and the pantry was higher in the wall than the other basement windows, almost on a level with the iron railings beyond it, and offering a view down over Orange Street and, obliquely, sharp to the right and past the Polchester High School, a glimpse of the Cathedral Towers themselves. Inside the window was a shelf, and on this shelf Hamlet would sit for hours, his peaked beard interrogatively a-tilt, his leg sticking out from his square body as though it were a joint-leg and worked like the limb of a wooden toy, his eyes, sad and mysterious, staring into Life. . . . It was not, of course, of Life that he was thinking; only very high-bred and in-bred dogs are conscious philosophers. His ears were stretched for a sound of the movements of Mrs. Hounslow the cook, his nostrils distended for a whiff of the food that she was manipulating, but his eyes were fixed upon the passing show, the pageantry, the rough-and-tumble of the world, and every once and again the twitch of his Christmas-tree tail would show that something was occurring in this life beyond the window that could supervene, for a moment at any rate, over the lust of the stomach and the lure of the clattering pan. He was an older dog than he had been on that snowy occasion of his first meeting with the Cole family-two years older in fact. Older and fatter. He had now a round belly. His hair hung as wildly as ever it had done around his eyes, but beneath the peaked and aristocratic beard there was a sad suspicion of a double chin. He had sold his soul to the cook.
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Add this copy of Jeremy and Hamlet to cart. $28.59, fair condition, Sold by Anybook rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Lincoln, UNITED KINGDOM, published 1934 by Macmillan.
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Add this copy of Jeremy and Hamlet to cart. $31.00, fair condition, Sold by Take Five Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Ashland, OR, UNITED STATES, published 1923 by George H. Doran Company.
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Fair. No Jacket. Wear to boards, edge wear. Dots, bottom exterior pages along with 1/2" hole. Author's name on first page in pen, signiture probably not authentic.
Add this copy of Jeremy and Hamlet to cart. $40.00, good condition, Sold by dromanabooks rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from newstead, VIC, AUSTRALIA, published 1951 by Macmillan & Co Ltd.
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Good+ in Good+ dust jacket; Darkened endpapers, spine and jacket flaps. Second of three stories about Jeremy Cole, unclipped jacket. 1955 reprint as part of the Modern Fiction Library series. 350gms weight; Modern Fiction Library; 12mo 7"-7½" tall; 244 pages.
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New York, George H. Doran Co, 1923, hardcover, 305 pp, First U.S. Edition indicated by GHD symbol on the copyright page, First Printing, Fair condition, lacking dustjacket. Straight, tight and clean with no markings, spine-end, corner and edge wear, gilt spine titles mostly worn off, spine darkened. A charming story of childhood as seen through the eyes of the family dog.