One of the most audacious modernist novels. A woman, fifty, widowed, rejected by her younger lover, lies dying in a nursing home. As she nears death, her thoughts go back through her life in an attempt to find its meaning. Trevelyan's most important work, a novel that belongs with To the Lighthouse or As I Lay Dying.
A panoramic view of English life from 1919 to 1936, Two Thousand Million Man- Power is no wistful, nostalgic account of this time. Instead, Gertrude Trevelyan shows how even the brightest and most able personalities can be ground down by economic highs and lows and a system in which individuals quickly disappear into crowds and statistics.
A haunting account of the emotional abuse experienced by a young woman who marries an older man, an extremely tight-fisted grocer whose avarice gradually takes over her whole world view. A powerful story of psychological degradation that draws the reader in like a vortex.