The Bright Pavilions

Sir Hugh Seymour Walpole was a prolific English novelist who played a significant part in the literary landscape of the early 20th century. Born on March 13, 1884, in New Zealand, his family moved to England when he was young. Walpole came to prominence with a sequence of novels that depicted, with both realism and satirical edge, the contemporary English social scene. His writing was characterize...