# The Secret City

Author: Walpole, Hugh, 1884-1941

Genre: Contemporary Reviews

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/12349

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+Secret+City+Walpole&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

There are certain things that I feel, as I look through this bundle of manuscript, that I must say. The first is that of course no writer ever has fulfilled his intention and no writer ever will; secondly, that there was, when I began, another intention than that of dealing with my subject adequately, namely that of keeping myself outside the whole of it; I was to be, in the most abstract and immaterial sense of the word, a voice, and that simply because this business of seeing Russian psychology through English eyes has no excuse except that it _is_ English. That is its only interest, its only atmosphere, its only motive, and if you are going to tell me that any aspect of Russia psycholo...

## Chapters

- [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-secret-city-12349/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Chapter 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-secret-city-12349/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Chapter 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-secret-city-12349/chapters/3/index.md)