Sinister Street

This article is about a novel. For the film, see Sinister Street (film). For the TV series, see Sinister Street (TV series).

First edition (UK, publ. Martin Secker)

Sinister Street is a 1913–1914 novel by Compton Mackenzie. It is a kind of Bildungsroman,[1] or novel about growing up, and concerns two children, Michael Fane and his sister Stella. Each of them is born out of wedlock, something that was frowned on at the time, but to rich parents.

In the UK, the novel was published in two volumes. However, in the United States, the volumes appeared as two separate books: Youth's Encounter (1913) and Sinister Street (1914).

  1. ^ George Woodcock Dawn and the Darkest Hour: A Study of Aldous Huxley p. 48