Theodore Savage A Story of the Past or the Future

The book introduces us to the titular character, a 30-ish office clerk in London''s Distribution Office; a government worker of no particular smarts or ambitions. An easygoing everyman, Savage, when we first encounter him, seems to have nothing more on his mind than collecting art prints and courting his boss'' daughter, Phillida Rathbone, a stylish young woman who soon consents to be his fiancée....