A.E.W. Mason's Running Water and The Guide. With Introduction and Notes

From the peaks of the Mont Blanc chain to the abyss of the human soul. This novel by Alfred Edward Woodley Mason, the celebrated author of The Four Feathers and the Inspector Hanaud series, combines adventure, love and crime in a plot which spans from the heroic heights of Alpine mountaineering to the gloomy underworld of upper-class fraudsters and criminals. A revised, scholarly edition of a classic mountaineering novel and of the almost forgotten gem “The Guide” by the master storyteller of the Edwardian and Modern age. This edition restores the original versions of Running Water and of the short story, and is enriched by an accurate set of notes, a critical introduction, and a chronology of events in Mason’s life and career.