Set in Petrograd in 1916, this novel follows the young Englishman Henry Bohun as he is drawn into the upheaval of the Russian Revolution. It is as much about the city's unease and the shifting ties between its inhabitants as it is about politics, with vanity, isolation, and desire slowly coming to the surface.

In Petrograd on the eve of revolution, private feeling collides quietly with the force of history.

Henry Festing Jones's memoir traces the life and work of his close friend Samuel Butler. It offers an insider's account of Butler's ideas, friendships, and writing career, especially the background to Erewhon, and the original work was issued in two volumes.

A substantial two-volume biography written by the friend who knew Samuel Butler best.