Phyllis Bottome later Mrs. Forbes-Dennis (1884–1963), was a British novelist and short story writer who wrote under her birth name, Phyllis Bottome. She was born in Rochester, Kent to an American clergyman, Rev. William Macdonald Bottome and Mary (Leatham) Bottome. She wrote her first novel when she was just seventeen, and had several works adapted to film. In addition to fiction she is also known as an Adlerian who wrote a biography of Alfred Adler, whom she studied psychoanalysis under while in Vienna. She married A. E. Forbes-Dennis in 1917. “The Dark Tower” was her fourth novel.
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Originally published by: The Century Co., New York, 1916.
THE DARK TOWER
BY PHYLLIS BOTTOME
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY J. H. GARDNER SOPER
NEW YORK THE CENTURY CO. 1916
Copyright, 1916, by THE CENTURY CO.
Published, September, 1916
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Dauntless the slughorn to my lips I set, and blew “Child Roland to the dark tower came.”
To W. W. D. H.
“God forbid that I should do this thing.
If our time be come, let us die manfully for our brethren
And let us not stain our honour.”
PART I
