Troy Chimneys

By Margaret Kennedy

Book Overview

"Tense, touching, human, dire, and funny" (Elizabeth Bowen): a Regency novel like none before or since. Troy Chimneys purports to be the private memoirs of Miles Lufton, a minor politician of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0140161120
• ISBN13: 9780140161120
• Release Date: December 1985
• Publisher: Penguin Group
• Length: 245 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Troy Chimneys uses innovative form to speak indirectly, but powerfully, about life choices and moral

This novels combines a diary and letters from two eras in British history to create a novel that captures the changing notion of the individual in the regency period. The main character is caught in an age when "gentleman" is being redefined. The novel explores issues of identity, love, class, morals, and money. It conveys "seize the day" in one of the most compelling, poignant twists of plot that I've read.