Book description
Revolt against the dire poverty of a sordid home engenders in the ugly, crude and illiterate youth the one predominant craving for power. Bruno Shadbolt looks at everything with solid, unmoved, indefatigable determination. This enables him to overcome, stumbling and blundering, the tremendous handicap of a totally neglected education, and to achieve material success.
Each step in his laborious and exceptional career is influenced by the character of one woman: the hard, grabbing Mrs. Lanchester, the sweet girl Louise, Gerda’s radiant and tender womanhood, Italian Jenny’s temperament and sensuality, and Lady Virginia’s aristocratic ease and true goodness shape the man whose successes and reverses are colourfully narrated against the changing background of a small Midland town in the ugliness of its industrial development and the unchanging, noble one of the manor Spella Ho.
