Knight on Wheels
Ian Hay
Paperback
(Forgotten Books, Nov. 29, 2017)
Excerpt from Knight on WheelsA knight ON wheels was my last pre-war novel. That means that neither I nor any one else can ever write any more novels quite like that. For better or for worse, our outlook is changed; and the place where we keep our ideas has been en tirely refurnished. So A knight ON wheels marks the end of a very definite chapter in my literary life Chapter One. Chapter Two concerns itself entirely with War literature. I have no idea what Chapter Three is going to be about.Few novels have ever been given to the world under more unpromising conditions. A knight ON wheels was published on July 28, 1914. Less than a week later the War broke out; and novels, plays, and other frivolities were swept into utter oblivion so we firmly believed for the duration. The book fell dead. It was hardly even reviewed. The newspapers had space for nothing but dis patches, Parliamentary reports, casualty lists, and charitable appeals. Even in America, the August flood of novels shrivelled to nothing. At times of international excitement no one takes home any thing but special editions of the evening papers.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.