{"product_id":"2940012092786","title":"SONS AND LOVERS","description":"PART I\u003cbr\u003e     1.   The Early Married Life of the Morels\u003cbr\u003e     2.   The Birth of Paul, and Another Battle\u003cbr\u003e     3.   The Casting Off of Morel--The Taking on of William\u003cbr\u003e     4.   The Young Life of Paul\u003cbr\u003e     5.   Paul Launches into Life\u003cbr\u003e     6.   Death in the Family\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     PART II\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     7.   Lad-and-Girl Love\u003cbr\u003e     8.   Strife in Love\u003cbr\u003e     9.   Defeat of Miriam\u003cbr\u003e     10.  Clara\u003cbr\u003e     11.  The Test on Miriam\u003cbr\u003e     12.  Passion\u003cbr\u003e     13.  Baxter Dawes\u003cbr\u003e     14.  The Release\u003cbr\u003e     15.  Derelict\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePART ONE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER I\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE EARLY MARRIED LIFE OF THE MORELS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"THE BOTTOMS\" succeeded to \"Hell Row\". Hell Row was a block of thatched,\u003cbr\u003ebulging cottages that stood by the brookside on Greenhill Lane. There\u003cbr\u003elived the colliers who worked in the little gin-pits two fields away.\u003cbr\u003eThe brook ran under the alder trees, scarcely soiled by these small\u003cbr\u003emines, whose coal was drawn to the surface by donkeys that plodded\u003cbr\u003ewearily in a circle round a gin. And all over the countryside were these\u003cbr\u003esame pits, some of which had been worked in the time of Charles II, the\u003cbr\u003efew colliers and the donkeys burrowing down like ants into the earth,\u003cbr\u003emaking queer mounds and little black places among the corn-fields and\u003cbr\u003ethe meadows. And the cottages of these coal-miners, in blocks and pairs\u003cbr\u003ehere and there, together with odd farms and homes of the stockingers,\u003cbr\u003estraying over the parish, formed the village of Bestwood.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThen, some sixty years ago, a sudden change took place, gin-pits were\u003cbr\u003eelbowed aside by the large mines of the financiers. The coal and iron\u003cbr\u003efield of Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire was discovered. Carston, Waite\u003cbr\u003eand Co. appeared. Amid tremendous excitement, Lord Palmerston formally\u003cbr\u003eopened the company's first mine at Spinney Park, on the edge of Sherwood\u003cbr\u003eForest.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAbout this time the notorious Hell Row, which through growing old had\u003cbr\u003eacquired an evil reputation, was burned down, and much dirt was cleansed\u003cbr\u003eaway.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCarston, Waite \u0026amp; Co. found they had struck on a good thing, so, down the\u003cbr\u003evalleys of the brooks from Selby and Nuttall, new mines were sunk, until\u003cbr\u003esoon there were six pits working. From Nuttall, high up on the sandstone\u003cbr\u003eamong the woods, the railway ran, past the ruined priory of the\u003cbr\u003eCarthusians and past Robin Hood's Well, down to Spinney Park, then on to\u003cbr\u003eMinton, a large mine among corn-fields; from Minton across the farmlands\u003cbr\u003eof the valleyside to Bunker's Hill, branching off there, and running\u003cbr\u003enorth to Beggarlee and Selby, that looks over at Crich and the hills of\u003cbr\u003eDerbyshire: six mines like black studs on the countryside, linked by a\u003cbr\u003eloop of fine chain, the railway.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTo accommodate the regiments of miners, Carston, Waite and Co. built the\u003cbr\u003eSquares, great quadrangles of dwellings on the hillside of Bestwood,\u003cbr\u003eand then, in the brook valley, on the site of Hell Row, they erected the\u003cbr\u003eBottoms.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Bottoms consisted of six blocks of miners' dwellings, two rows\u003cbr\u003eof three, like the dots on a blank-six domino, and twelve houses in a\u003cbr\u003eblock. This double row of dwellings sat at the foot of the rather sharp\u003cbr\u003eslope from Bestwood, and looked out, from the attic windows at least, on\u003cbr\u003ethe slow climb of the valley towards Selby.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe houses themselves were substantial and very decent. One could walk\u003cbr\u003eall round, seeing little front gardens with auriculas and saxifrage in\u003cbr\u003ethe shadow of the bottom block, sweet-williams and pinks in the sunny\u003cbr\u003etop block; seeing neat front windows, little porches, little privet\u003cbr\u003ehedges, and dormer windows for the attics. But that was outside; that\u003cbr\u003ewas the view on to the uninhabited parlours of all the colliers' wives.\u003cbr\u003eThe dwelling-room, the kitchen, was at the back of the house, facing\u003cbr\u003einward between the blocks, looking at a scrubby back garden, and then at\u003cbr\u003ethe ash-pits. And between the rows, between the long lines of ash-pits,\u003cbr\u003ewent the alley, where the children played and the women gossiped and the\u003cbr\u003emen smoked. So, the actual conditions of living in the Bottoms, that\u003cbr\u003ewas so well built and that looked so nice, were quite unsavoury because\u003cbr\u003epeople must live in the kitchen, and the kitchens opened on to that\u003cbr\u003enasty alley of ash-pits.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMrs. Morel was not anxious to move into the Bottoms, which was already\u003cbr\u003etwelve years old and on the downward path, when she descended to it from\u003cbr\u003eBestwood. But it was the best she could do. Moreover, she had an end\u003cbr\u003ehouse in one of the top blocks, and thus had only one neighbour; on\u003cbr\u003ethe other side an extra strip of garden. And, having an end house, she\u003cbr\u003eenjoyed a kind of aristocracy among the other women of the \"between\"\u003cbr\u003ehouses, because her rent was five shillings and sixpence instead of\u003cbr\u003efive shillings a week. But this superiority in st","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47078600966384,"sku":"2940012092786","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940012092786_p0.jpg?v=1763552618","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940012092786","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}