Gone To Ground, or the Sporting Decameron por T. H. White - 1935

London: Collins, 1935. First edition. 272, [2, ads] pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Brown cloth, spine titled in gilt. Fine in very good plus pictorial dust jacket by J.Z. Atkinson, spine priced 7/6 (spine a bit soiled). First edition. 272, [2, ads] pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Nominally a sequel to T.H. White's Earth Stopped (1934), this collection of linked stories is indeed a Sporting Decameron as the dust jacket announces above a graceful line drawing of a fox descending. As the world explodes to global war, a small party of foxhunters (with a gardener and an old Etonian tramp) take refuges in a well-appointed bomb shelter built by the suspicioously wealthy and long-lived Soapy Sponge and Facey Romford, who had absquatulated to Australia and formed a bank. Members of the party tell a succession of fantastical tales of foxhunting and fishing, channelling Surtees and Norman Douglas and M.R. James, with nods to Buchan and Dunsany and jeers at Kenneth Grahame. A remarkable book that show many of the predilections and literary… Ler mais