Warwick Deeping's "Two in a Train and Other Stories" offers a captivating collection of narratives that delve deep into the intricacies of human relationships, emotional struggles, and the everyday dramas that carve out the fabric of life. Deeping employs a vivid prose style, intermingling lyrical descriptions with sharp dialogue, demonstrating his keen observation of character and situation. Set against the backdrop of early 20th-century England, these stories reflect the cultural milieu ...

In the town of Roxton two women have been rivals since girlhood: Catherine Murchison, big, generous and loved in the slums, and Betty Steel, sleek, clever and jealous, whose husband's practice is set against the doctor Catherine married. Deeping was a physician before he was a novelist, and the medical rivalry — the consultations, the reputations, the patients who move from one brass plate to the other — is exact. The town takes sides, and the ending is a public one.

Restoration London, a girl brought up wild by a soldier father, and a court where nothing is safe. Deeping wrote historical romance before the domestic novels that made his fortune, and this is the most vivid of the early ones. This edition is bound with 57 plates of seventeenth-century painting, among them works by Frans van Mieris the Elder, Thomas Wijck and Judith Leyster, and includes one restored and coloured in-text illustration.

A woman with money of her own decides she will not marry on the usual terms, and the man who wants her has to find out what the other terms are. Deeping wrote it before the war made him famous and the argument is franker than his later books. This edition adds a gallery of 58 plates bound with the text, with paintings by Philip Wilson Steer, Philip de László, Samuel Melton Fisher and Charles Haslewood Shannon.

A gamekeeper's daughter in eighteenth-century Sussex, a squire's son, a smuggling gang and a wood that hides all of them. Warwick Deeping wrote seventy novels and this early one is his most physical: the fights and the flights are staged with a real sense of ground. The class barrier is the plot and the book does not pretend it can be argued away. Fifty-nine paintings by Constable, Clausen and others follow the wood, the field and the changing sky through the same Sussex ground the story w...

Britain before Arthur: Uther the king, Igraine married to another man, and Merlin arranging the deception that produces an heir. Deeping wrote it early, in a deliberately archaic manner, and the cruelty of the legend is left in. This edition adds 56 plates of painting, among them works by Alexander Nasmyth, Horatio McCulloch and John William Waterhouse, alongside three restored and coloured illustrations.

English author Warwick Deeping's 1928 novel 'Old Pybus' centers around a London bookshop proprietor and his relationship with his sons. He is estranged from them as they refused to enlist in World War I. Many years later, now a hotelier, he meets a young book-lover who stops into his inn. Unknow to him, it is his grandson.

When Barbara Irene Brown, age 26, arrives at Julie Lord's English Library and Tea Room in the Italian town of Tindaro, she finds a disparate group of English exiles living there. Romance and complications ensue.

In The Challenge of Love, Warwick Deeping examines romance not as sentimental escape but as a demanding moral ordeal, testing character against pride, social expectation, and the need for emotional courage. Written in the fluent, humane manner that made Deeping popular between the wars, the novel blends melodramatic tension with close attention to motive and atmosphere. Its literary context is the early twentieth-century English novel of feeling: earnest, accessible, and deeply concerned w...

Kitty is the story of a personality conflict between the wife of war-injured soldier and his wealthy, domineering, class-conscious mother. Mrs Clara St. George is an icy widow of London, a woman of affairs used to getting her own way. Displays of emotion are both foreign and repugnant to her. Alex, her only son, home from leave and soon to face the war in the trenches, feels scared and alone. In contrast, Mrs Sarah Greenwood, a doctor's widow who keeps a tobacco shop near Piccadilly, is a ...

Set in England in the 1920's, this story is about a father's love, devotion and sacrifice for his beloved son. Captain Sorrell returns from the war to find his wife has left him with sole responsibility for their son Kit. Despite many deprivations, Sorrell strives to ensure his son will have the education and opportunities he never had. Will his efforts pay off? The book offers captivating insights into English society between the two World Wars.

Isabella came to Caroline Terrace, that select row of genteel houses perched high on the cliffs of South End, in the palmy days of the Victorian era. But Isabella did not enjoy the pleasures of the seaside, or the comfort of her home, for she was merely a governess to Mrs. Pankridge’s two insufferable children, engaged at twenty pounds a year. And Isabella was also the daughter of a man hanged for murder, a fact which incurred her instant dismissal when the truth became known to Mrs. Pankr...