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Horace Annesley Vachell
Horace Annesley Vachell (1861–1955) was a prolific British novelist, playwright, and essayist. He is best known for his novel "The Hill," a coming-of-age story set at an English public school, which remains one of his most enduring works. Vachell wrote over 50 novels, often focusing on themes of friendship, loyalty, and social class. His wide-ranging career also included works like "Quinneys'," a play about an antique dealer, which was later adapted into a successful film.
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I In the early eighties, when my brother Ajax and I were raising cattle in the foothills of Southern California, our ranch-house was used as a stopping-place by the teamsters hauling freight across the Coast Range; and after the boom began, while the village of Paradise was evolving itself out of rough timber, we were obliged to furnish all comers with board and lodging. Hardly a day passed without...
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THE HILL CHAPTER I THE MANOR "Five hundred faces, and all so strange! Life in front of me—home behind, I felt like a waif before the wind Tossed on an ocean of shock and change. "Chorus. Yet the time may come, as the years go by, When your heart will thrill At the thought of the Hill, And the day that you came so strange and shy." The train slid...
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