The Honeywood File: An Adventure in Building (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780897334730)

In this first U.S. publication of a richly comic classic--originally published in England in the 1920s--the pitfalls and vicissitudes of home building are presented in sharp and unforgettable detail, in the form of letters to and from the architect--a hapless young man named James Spinlove, who, in his valiant attempts to create the Honeywood mansion for Sir Leslie Brash, encounters a motley collection of contractors, surveyors, plumbers and town planners--to say nothing of intensely litigious lawyers, and Sir Leslie Brash himself, along with his good lady. There are letters from the subsidiary but crucial characters named Nibnose & Rasper, Mr Snitch, V. Potch and Hoochkoft the surveyor of bricks, among others.

Author: H. B. Creswell
ISBN-10: 0897334736
ISBN-13: 9780897334730
Publisher: Academy Chicago Publishers
Language: English
Published: 08/30/2005
Pages: 230
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.59lbs
Size: 8.43h x 5.49w x 0.63d