[Download] "Simple Peter Cradd" by E. Phillips Oppenheim # Book PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Simple Peter Cradd
- Author : E. Phillips Oppenheim
- Release Date : January 18, 2020
- Genre: Mysteries & Thrillers,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 813 KB
Description
This 1933 novel opens with a fantastic description of the boring, wearisome life of Mr. Peter Cradd, leather merchant, husband, father, slave to his family, stoic self-denier, and all-around put upon man in the bowler hat. He is barely able to pay his bills, has a wife who seems him only as a wallet, and two children whose most favorable opinion of him is disappointment. In true Oppenheim fashion, he answers a letter from a lawyer, and finds out that he has inherited a fortune. What he does with it, where he moves, how he educates himself, and whom he loves form the rest of the story. It's a great window into middle class life in England in the 30's and the dreams of downtrodden.