Honeywood File: An Adventure in Building
Editorial Reviews
Arnold Bennett
...full of human nature; and full of useful information lightly conveyed, for everybody concerned with domestic architecture.
Book Description
In this first U.S. publication of a richly comic classic-originally published in England in the 1920s-the pitfalls and vicissitudes of home building are presented in sharp and unforgettable detail, in the form of letters to and from the architect, a hapless young man named James Spinlove. In his valiant attempts to create the Honeywood mansion for Sir Leslie Brash, Spinlove encounters a motley collection of contractors, surveyors, plumbers and town planners-to say nothing of intensely litigious lawyers, and Sir Leslie Brash hmself, along with his good lady. The Honeywood File follows the rich tradition of wry English humor. It also contains a great deal of valuable and still-pertinent information about building a house.
Honeywood File: An Adventure in Building,H. B. Creswell,Academy Chicago Publishers,0897334736,20th Century English Novel And Short Story,Architectural practice,England,English Satire And Humor,Fiction,Fiction - General,Humorous,Architecture,English,Humour
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