Books like Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky

Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky are the streets of London… And there people meet and part… And there they fall in love.For he was in that mood when he loved all human creatures. He loved Ella because she was a good woman, and he loved the other because she was a bad woman. It was a good world.In brief, because he had given ten shillings to a young prostitute without expecting the usual thing in return he was dreadfully conceited. He was so innocent as to believe the transaction was almost unique. He little suspected cunning mankind’s general awareness of the charms of chivalry. He was in love with himself.And a man successfully in love desires above all things to sing.Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky trilogy is the three interconnected moody and beautifully written novellettes of unrequited love.Nevertheless, the gas-lit walls and objects around him were heavy with his own depression – the depression of one who awakes from the excess in the late afternoon. Only at dawn should a man awake from excess – at dawn agleam with red and sorrowful resolve. The late, dark afternoon, with an evening’s toil ahead, affords no such palliation.Love is the most desirable and entrancing thing… But an unanswered love may bring much anguish and sadness.