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ID
b62
Title
'The Story Without an End'
Genre
Story
Page Count
25
Word Count
5250
Publisher
Argosy (UK)
Esquire
London Mercury
Publication Year
1932
Document Types
Original Manuscript (mss)
Topics
Coming of Age, Youthful Romance

A fifteen-year-old boy, learning the restaurant trade from a cruel and drunken boor, falls in love with a waitress. When the owner discovers them in bed, she is fired, and the boy remains at his job with "a queer furtive, sideways look, that half-desperate, half-hopeless look, almost criminal, that dwells in the eyes of the oppressed and persecuted, of those who cannot escape."

A holograph manuscript is held in the Senate House Library archives at the University of London (https://archives.libraries.lon...).

In The Story Without an End and The Country Doctor (1932), The Woman Who Had Imagination and Other Stories (1934),Country Tales (1938), Country Tales (1940). Reprinted in the London Mercury (September 1933), Esquire (April, 1934), Argosy (April 1943).