Our Mr Wrenn
Penguin 1st Edition, published 1936.
Wrenn, the lucky inheritor of a small fortune, with a penchant for travel guides, decides to forsake his job and life in New York for a trip in Europe, and in doing thiss he chooses the frugality and hard work required from those who pass the Atlantic by being employed as temporary ship workers. As a cattle herder there he gets the chance to understand the life of those poorer than him. But this social streak will not be the only one: artists, radical Englishwomen and men, simple clerks or salespeople, all will show to the hero that friendship cannot be only one based on status, political affinities or kinship. Its diversity is the one that matters.
Condition grading: Excellent Minus. Minor bumping damage to spine ends. Bright covers. Binding tight. The photographs form part of the description.
Penguin 1st Edition, published 1936.
Wrenn, the lucky inheritor of a small fortune, with a penchant for travel guides, decides to forsake his job and life in New York for a trip in Europe, and in doing thiss he chooses the frugality and hard work required from those who pass the Atlantic by being employed as temporary ship workers. As a cattle herder there he gets the chance to understand the life of those poorer than him. But this social streak will not be the only one: artists, radical Englishwomen and men, simple clerks or salespeople, all will show to the hero that friendship cannot be only one based on status, political affinities or kinship. Its diversity is the one that matters.
Condition grading: Excellent Minus. Minor bumping damage to spine ends. Bright covers. Binding tight. The photographs form part of the description.
Penguin 1st Edition, published 1936.
Wrenn, the lucky inheritor of a small fortune, with a penchant for travel guides, decides to forsake his job and life in New York for a trip in Europe, and in doing thiss he chooses the frugality and hard work required from those who pass the Atlantic by being employed as temporary ship workers. As a cattle herder there he gets the chance to understand the life of those poorer than him. But this social streak will not be the only one: artists, radical Englishwomen and men, simple clerks or salespeople, all will show to the hero that friendship cannot be only one based on status, political affinities or kinship. Its diversity is the one that matters.
Condition grading: Excellent Minus. Minor bumping damage to spine ends. Bright covers. Binding tight. The photographs form part of the description.
