Compton Mackenzie

• Aug-2025
• / General Fiction

Round about the second anniversary of the start of World War 1, Roger Waterlow is still stuck ashore in charge of the ramshackle British naval intelligence effort in a sweltering notionally ‘neutral’ country in South-eastern Europe. As ru...

• Mar-2015
• / General Fiction

" ...]believe I've got one. Pretty good view from your window. Mine looks out on the High." "Look here," asked Alan very solemnly, "where shall I hang this picture my mater gave me?" He displayed in a green frame The Soul's Awakening. "Do you like it...

• May-2014
• / Literary

With the spirited and unforgettable Sylvia Scarlett, a character acclaimed as being 'one of the few really great women in fiction', Compton Mackenzie brings us his very own Becky Sharp. Originally published in two volumes, this complete edition follo...

• Jun-2013
• / General Fiction

WESTMINSTER GAZETTE: "Mr. Mackenzie's book is a novel of genre, and with infinite care and obvious love of detail has he set himself to paint a literary picture in the manner of Hogarth. He is no imitator, he owes no thanks to any predecessor in the...

• Jun-2013
• / General Fiction

WESTMINSTER GAZETTE: "Mr. Mackenzie's book is a novel of genre, and with infinite care and obvious love of detail has he set himself to paint a literary picture in the manner of Hogarth. He is no imitator, he owes no thanks to any predecessor in the...

• Jan-2013
• / Erotica

• Jul-2012
• / General Fiction

Sylvia & Michael: The Later Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett by Compton Mackenzie. I need scarcely say that in 1915 there was no Passport Office in Bucharest, and that so far as I am aware there are no portraits in this book. If any of the characters ac...

• Apr-2012
• / General Fiction

The Vanity Girl by Compton Mackenzie, author of “Poor Relations” “Sylvia Scarlett” “Sylvia & Michael” Published September, 1920 Dedication TO FAY COMPTONMy dear Fay.For several reasons I am anxious to inscrib...

• Feb-2012
• / Historical

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 ba...

• Feb-2012
• / Historical

In this second volume of a two-volume set, young protagonist Michael Fane goes to college and begins to explore his growing independence and the world around him. Acclaimed by an array of authors and critics as one of the most important works of fict...

• Jul-2008
• / General Fiction

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and...

• Oct-2007
• / Romance

Jenny Pearl, a dancer, falls in love with Maurice Avery, a young dilettante who leaves her when she refuses to become his mistress. Despairingly, she falls into a loveless marriage with Trewhella, a Cornish farmer who becomes insanely jealous when Av...

• Nov-2004
• / General Fiction

It's 1943 and the war has brought rationing to the Hebridean islands of Great and Little Todday. When food is in short supply, it is bad enough, but when the whisky runs out, it looks like the end of the world. Morale is at rock bottom. George Campb...

• Mar-2000
• / General Fiction

The ancient clan spirit is not yet dead in the Scottish Highlands, with Donald MacDonald of Ben Nevis ruling the roost at wild, craggy Glenbogle castle. Woe betide those who trespass on this chieftain's kingdom......

• Jan-1975
• / General Fiction

• 1973
• / General Fiction

• Apr-1969
• / General Fiction

FROM a world of daisies as big as moons and of mountainous green hillocks Michael Fane came by some unrealized method of transport to the thin red house, that as yet for his mind could not claim an individual existence amid the uniformity of a long l...

• / General Fiction

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 th...

• / General Fiction

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available a...

• / General Fiction

He looked at the semi-circular porch of stone over the front-door and venerated the supporting cherubs who with puffed-out cheeks had blown defiance at wind and rain since the days of Elizabeth. He counted the nine windows, five above and four below,...

• / Historical Romance

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available a...

• / General Fiction

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 ...

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THERE was nothing to distinguish the departure of the Murmania from that of any other big liner leaving New York in October for Liverpool or Southampton. At the crowded gangways there was the usual rain of ultimate kisses, from the quayside the usual...

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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 be...

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This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning...

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