Derby Day
By: D.J. Taylor
Edition: 1st Pegasus books cloth ed.
Publisher: Pegasus Books
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 405
ISBN-13: 9781605983325; 9781605984445
Subjects: Derby (Horse race) fast (OCoLC)fst01409354; Horse racing; Fiction; Historical fiction; Derby (Horse race); History
Description: As the shadows lengthen over the June grass, all England is heading for Epsom Downs - high life and low life, society beauties and Whitechapel street girls, bookmakers and gypsies, hawkers and acrobats, punters and thieves. Whole families stream along the Surrey back-roads, towards the greatest race of the year. Hopes are high, nerves are taut, hats are tossed in the air - this is Derby Day.
Table of contents: title: pt. one. The conversation in Clipstone Court; title: Belgrave Square; title: An addition to the family; title: Scroop Hall; title: Marriage a la mode; title: pt. two. A situation in the country; title: Boulogne-Sur-Mer; title: What The Sportsman's Magazine thought about it; title: Mr. Happerton's haunts and homes; title: Shepherd's Inn and elsewhere; title: London and Lincolnshire; title: What Bell's Life thought about it; title: An evening in the city; title: pt. three. Hounds upon the scent; title: Captain McTurk takes charge; title: What The Star thought about it; title: At home and abroad with Captain Raff; title: The triumph of modern man; title: Visitors; title: More from Bell's Life; title: The governess's tale; title: pt. four. Mist; title: Stratagems of Captain McTurk; title: Mount Street and beyond; title: Inside information; title: Derby Day : begun; title: Derby Day : concluded; title: Afterwards.