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Room at the Top a Novel

  • John Braine,
  • Braine, John

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This is the story of an ambitious young man from a working class background determined to make it to the top in post WW2 England. With ruthless determination he succeeds in marrying the only daughter of a wealthy businessman but only at the expense of his older lover and of his conscience. One of the first novels to tackle the class divisions in post-war Britain in a realistic setting it reflects the anger and bitterness felt by many servicemen returning to civilian life at that time.

Genres

  • Fiction
  • Working class
  • England, fiction
  • Fiction, general
  • English fiction
  • Class divisions
  • Social-climbing
  • Ambition
  • Bolivian fiction
  • Detective and mystery stories
  • Travailleurs
  • Romans, nouvelles
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About the authors

  • John Braine

    1922 - 1986

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  • Braine, John

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Editions

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    Houghton Mifflin

    1957-01-01

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    Eyre & Spottiswoode

    1961

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    First Valancourt Books edition.

    Valancourt Books

    2013

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    Penguin

    1959

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New American Library

1957

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    Eyre & Spottiswoode

    1971

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    Abridged Ed edition

    CSA WORD

    August 1999

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    Arrow

    1994

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    Arrow

    1989

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    Unabridged edition

    Chivers Audio Books

    June 1999

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    Arrow

    1989

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    Houghton Mifflin

    1957

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    Penguin

    1987

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    New American Library

    1958-10

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    Penguin

    1960

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    Penguin Random House

    2014

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    Eyre & Spottiswoode

    1957

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    Mandarin

    1989

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    Large print ed.

    ISIS Large Print Bks.

    1994

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    Penguin Books

    1959

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    Methuen

    1989

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    1st Methuen, N.Y. ed.

    Methuen

    1980

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    Buccaneer Books

    December 1993

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    Listen for Pleasure

    1989

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    Lizenzausg.

    Bertelsmann Lesering

    1960

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    Eyre & Spottiswoode

    1957

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    Amereon Limited

    February 2002

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    Penguin Books

    1979

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    The Riverside Press

    1957

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    Largeprint edition

    ISIS Large Print Books

    February 1996

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    Houghton Mifflin (T)

    June 1962