Excerpt from The World I Knew There was not much room in the Goller household. In fact only the basement was unoccupied. This was soon fitted up and my family took up its first residence in England. Some twenty-one years later, during the First Great War, my father died in the front parlour Of this same Goller, who by that time had moved to the more salubrious region of Hightown. His own home had long since broken up, my mother dead, myself in Salonica, Jack, my young brother, the apple of my father's eye, not yet a ...
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Excerpt from The World I Knew There was not much room in the Goller household. In fact only the basement was unoccupied. This was soon fitted up and my family took up its first residence in England. Some twenty-one years later, during the First Great War, my father died in the front parlour Of this same Goller, who by that time had moved to the more salubrious region of Hightown. His own home had long since broken up, my mother dead, myself in Salonica, Jack, my young brother, the apple of my father's eye, not yet a soldier about to die. We did not stay long in Red Bank. We were rather ashamed of it, I think. After all, my father was a scholar and orator of rare distinction the father Of my mother was a landowner. He had vines, and an orchard, and a wine cellar. I do not remember Red Bank at all. I must have been less than a year Old when we left it. I saw the house I was born in only once with conscious eyes, no more than three or four years ago, on one Of my rare, increasingly rare, return visits to Manchester. The house was a windowless shell, already marked for demoli tion. It has since been demolished, I have been told. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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