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An aging Hungarian writer, the hero of this novel, talks about old age, about the gloomy process of aging and the attempt to escape from it, even though the outcome is known and indelible.
The novel is a dark tale of destructive ambition, class discrimination, domestic violence and Victorian repression, inspired by Dickens' style but with Cronin's social realism. A 1942 film adaptation starring Robert Newton.
