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The Iron Age

Francis Brett Young

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Description:In Francis Brett Young's first Black Country novel published in 1916, Willis, Hacket and Willis is a substantial industrial conglomerate which grew out of an ironworks, a colliery and a brickworks in the Stour Valley. At the turn of the century the firm is drifting along, apparently comfortably, after doing well in several wars. Walter Willis brings in a brilliant young engineer, Stafford, who develops a special steel giving hopes that it will rejuvenate the company. Stafford, however, neglects his bored wife and the Willis's solitary son, Edward, also in the firm, completes a complicating 'triangle' which causes turmoil; but for the firm, one door closes and another opens. The author was born less than two miles from the novel's semi-rural setting and his grandfather was a director of the actual New British Ironworks on the site and lived in the “big house” there. The fine geographical and technical descriptions are authentic and the story line is gripping.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Iron Age. To get started finding The Iron Age, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: In Francis Brett Young's first Black Country novel published in 1916, Willis, Hacket and Willis is a substantial industrial conglomerate which grew out of an ironworks, a colliery and a brickworks in the Stour Valley. At the turn of the century the firm is drifting along, apparently comfortably, after doing well in several wars. Walter Willis brings in a brilliant young engineer, Stafford, who develops a special steel giving hopes that it will rejuvenate the company. Stafford, however, neglects his bored wife and the Willis's solitary son, Edward, also in the firm, completes a complicating 'triangle' which causes turmoil; but for the firm, one door closes and another opens. The author was born less than two miles from the novel's semi-rural setting and his grandfather was a director of the actual New British Ironworks on the site and lived in the “big house” there. The fine geographical and technical descriptions are authentic and the story line is gripping.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Iron Age. To get started finding The Iron Age, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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