Ruined City (Jia Pingwa Novel)
''Ruined City'' is a 1938 novel by Nevil Shute, published by Cassell (publisher), Cassell in the UK. In the US, the book was published by William Morrow and Company, William Morrow under the title ''Kindling''. Plot summary The story is set in the Depression years of the 1930s, when a rich London financier, Henry Warren, suffering from health problems and a broken marriage, decides to disappear from his old life, and travel ''incognito'' in the industrial North, now plagued with unemployment. In the fictional town of Sharples, whose only shipyard has just closed, he is taken ill and admitted to hospital, where he is mistaken for one of the unemployed. After a successful operation, and a burgeoning friendship with Alice, the hospital’s almoner, he takes stock of the local situation, and resolves to use his wealth to help the community. Knowing that the shipyard is for sale at a knockdown price, he buys it secretly, but finds that he can only attract business from a dubious oil-r ...
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