The village of Market Blandings is one of those sleepy hamlets which modern progress has failed to touch... The church is Norman, and the intelligence of the majority of the natives palaeozoic.

His was a life which lacked, perhaps, the sublimer emotions which raised Man to the level of the gods, but it was undeniably an extremely happy one. He never e…

At five minutes to eleven on the morning named he was at the station, a false beard and spectacles shielding his identity from the public eye. If you had asked…

'Work, the what's-its-name of the thingummy and the thing-um-a-bob of the what d'you-call-it.'

History is more or less bunk. It's tradition. We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's damn is the…

'I was never bound to what was already done, was already experimented'

The two parties which divide the State, the party of Conservatism and that of Innovation are very old, and have disputed the possession of the world ever since…