Honeywood File the: An Adventure in Building

Honeywood File the: An Adventure in BuildingIn 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, who, in his valiant attempts to create the Honeywood mansion for Sir Leslie Brash, encounters a motley collection of contractors, surveyors, plumbers and town

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, who, in his valiant attempts to create the Honeywood mansion for Sir Leslie Brash, encounters a motley collection of contractors, surveyors, plumbers and town planners--to say nothing of intensely litigious lawyers, and Sir Leslie Brash himself, along with his good lady. There are letters from the subsidiary but crucial characters named Nibnose & Rasper, Mr Snitch, V. Potch and Hoochkoft the surveyor of bricks, among others.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Academy Chicago Publishers
Published: 08/30/2005
ISBN: 9780897334730
Pages: 230
Weight: 0.59lbs
Size: 8.43h x 5.49w x 0.63d