House History
John Sutherland
- Allen Lane: King Penguin by J.E. Morpurgo
Hutchinson, 405 pp, £9.95, November 1980, ISBN 0 09 139690 5
The terms on which this book is set up are prefigured in the split title – Allen Lane: King Penguin. In Elizabethan drama the king’s two bodies might well be a theme for tragedy, and a latterday Lytton Strachey might have made much of the hypocritical discrepancies between public eminence and private person. J.E. Morpurgo has settled for ‘paradox’. His biography-cum-house-history evokes a constant sense of how odd it was that such a man should have produced such a thing.
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