num_pages: 256
description: This wartime story of loneliness and homeless peole is set in an English boarding-house run by a thrifty widow. The effects of war on this isolated group--particularly the entrance of an American serviceman into lonely Miss Roach's life--are aptly told.
language: English
title: The Slaves of Solitude
titlecomplete: The Slaves of Solitude (Twentieth Century Classics)
characters: Miss Steele, Miss Barrett, Mr Thwaites, Miss Roach, Mr Prest
genres: Literary Fiction, Modern Classics, Fiction, Novels, Literature, Historical Fiction, War, Classics, World War II, British Literature
ratings_count: 2559
places: London, England
publisher: Oxford University Press