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Angel Pavement
Angel Pavement
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Prologue
She came gliding along London's broadest street, and then halted, swaying gently. She was a steamship of some 3,500 tons, flying the flag of one of the new Baltic states. The Tower Bridge cleared itself of midgets and toy vehicles and raised its two arms, and then she passed underneath, accompanied by cheerfully impudent tugs, and after some manoeuvring and hooting and shouting, finally came to rest alongside Hay's Wharf.
She came gliding along London's broadest street, and then halted, swaying gently. She was a steamship of some 3,500 tons, flying the flag of one of the new Baltic states. The Tower Bridge cleared itself of midgets and toy vehicles and raised its two arms, and then she passed underneath, accompanied by cheerfully impudent tugs, and after some manoeuvring and hooting and shouting, finally came to rest alongside Hay's Wharf.
J. B. Priestley's 1930 London novel following the intertwined lives of the employees of a small City firm after a mysterious foreign businessman arrives with a get-rich-quick scheme. A vivid portrait of ordinary London life on the eve of the Depression.
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