The Dark Forest-
The story of two Englishmen with a Russian Red Cross unit during the campaigns against the Austrians.
Fortitude-
The story of one Peter Westcott, from childhood to maturity, taking us from the grim home in Cornwall to a disreputable Devonshire school, and on to a boarding-house in Bloomsbury, to poverty in the East End, to success in literature, to love and marriage, and at last to a catastrophe by which most would mark the end.
The Golden Scarecrow-
Walpole's courage in the face of the widest skepticism is nowhere more daring than in The Golden Scarecrow, a collection of sympathetic sketches for grown-ups, of episodes in the lives of ten children all living about a quiet old square in London.
Jeremy-
The story of one year, the eighth, in the life of a happy, normal but imaginative little boy, growing up with his two sisters and his dog, Hamlet, in the Cornish cathedral town of Polchester-by-the-sea, thirty years ago. A delightfully humorous chronicle, told with an affection and understanding which mark it as autobiography.
The Prelude to Adventure-
English college life forms the background of this introspective study and self analysis of the mind of a man who had committed homicide. No one knows of his deed, and he has few qualms because he had ridden the world of a filthy human being who was clever enough to appear decent. But his conscience begins to work and reveals to him that his deed has put him out of touch with human society, that he is an outlaw, and that he must win his way back to citizenship. A thread of romance is woven thru the sombre introspection.
The Secret City-
Walpole's contribution to the 'Petersburg myth,' based on his work for the Red Cross in Russia during World War I, follows The Dark Forest, and, like that other work, is dominated by the sinister figure of Dr. Demyonov.
