num_pages: 230
description: In this first U.S. publication of a richly comic classic—originally published in England in the 1920s—the pitfalls and vicissitudes of home building are presented in sharp and unforgettable detail, in the form of letters to and from the architect—a hapless young man named James Spinlove, who, in his valiant attempts to create the Honeywood mansion for Sir Leslie Brash, encounters a motley collection of contractors, surveyors, plumbers and town planners—to say nothing of intensely litigious lawyers, and Sir Leslie Brash himself, along with his good lady. There are letters from the subsidiary but crucial characters named Nibnose &amp; Rasper, Mr Snitch, V. Potch and Hoochkoft the surveyor of bricks, among others.
language: English
title: The Honeywood File: An Adventure in Building
titlecomplete: The Honeywood File: An Adventure in Building
genres: Humor, Fiction, Architecture
ratings_count: 49
series: Honeywood
publisher: Academy Chicago Publishers