Grimsdyke
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and corners
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: marking '4' on title page.
Set against the rugged industrial landscape of Victorian England, Grimsdyke immerses the reader in a world of grit, ambition, and moral reckoning, chronicling the life of a man whose name becomes synonymous with the iron will required to survive — and shape — a turbulent era. Walter Unsworth constructs a richly textured narrative that grounds its protagonist in the social and physical upheaval of a nation remaking itself, where class, labour, and identity collide with dramatic force. Unsworth, best known for his authoritative works on mountaineering and the British landscape, brings the same meticulous attention to terrain and human endurance to his fiction, illustrating the psychological depths of characters tested by circumstance and their own conflicted desires. Grimsdyke stands as a compelling example of mid-twentieth-century British historical fiction — atmospheric, purposeful, and driven by a quiet but insistent tension that holds the reader to the very last page. Who, ultimately, is Grimsdyke — and what does he leave behind?
Author: Walter Unsworth
Format: Hardback
Published: 1974, Victor Gollancz Ltd
Genre: Historical fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and corners
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: marking '4' on title page.
Set against the rugged industrial landscape of Victorian England, Grimsdyke immerses the reader in a world of grit, ambition, and moral reckoning, chronicling the life of a man whose name becomes synonymous with the iron will required to survive — and shape — a turbulent era. Walter Unsworth constructs a richly textured narrative that grounds its protagonist in the social and physical upheaval of a nation remaking itself, where class, labour, and identity collide with dramatic force. Unsworth, best known for his authoritative works on mountaineering and the British landscape, brings the same meticulous attention to terrain and human endurance to his fiction, illustrating the psychological depths of characters tested by circumstance and their own conflicted desires. Grimsdyke stands as a compelling example of mid-twentieth-century British historical fiction — atmospheric, purposeful, and driven by a quiet but insistent tension that holds the reader to the very last page. Who, ultimately, is Grimsdyke — and what does he leave behind?