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Patrick Hamilton

Born

in Hassocks, Sussex, The United Kingdom

March 17, 1904

Died

September 23, 1962

Genre

Fiction

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He was born Anthony Walter Patrick Hamilton in the Sussex village of Hassocks, near Brighton, to writer parents. Due to his father's alcoholism and financial ineptitude, the family spent much of Hamilton's childhood living in boarding houses in Chiswick and Hove. His education was patchy, and ended just after his fifteenth birthday when his mother withdrew him from Westminster School.

After a brief career as an actor, he became a novelist in his early twenties with the publication of Monday Morning (1925), written when he was nineteen. Craven House (1926) and Twopence Coloured (1928) followed, but his first real success was the play Rope (1929, known as ...more

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Patrick Hamilton’s books

Average rating: 4.08 · 14,445 ratings · 1,714 reviews · 89 distinct works • Similar authors

	Hangover Square 4.13 avg rating — 5,906 ratings — published 1941 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Slaves of Solitude by Patrick Hamilton, David Lodge (Introduction) 4.07 avg rating — 2,998 ratings — published 1947 — 36 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky (Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky, #1-3) 4.24 avg rating — 2,002 ratings — published 1935 — 22 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Gas Light really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,106 ratings — published 1939 — 22 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Rope 3.84 avg rating — 562 ratings — published 1929 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Gorse Trilogy: The West Pier, Mr Stimpson and Mr Gorse, Unknown Assailant 3.95 avg rating — 352 ratings — published 1992 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Craven House 3.85 avg rating — 316 ratings — published 1926 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Midnight Bell (Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky, #1) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 295 ratings — published 1929 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Siege of Pleasure (Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky #2) 3.90 avg rating — 178 ratings — published 1932 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The West Pier 3.95 avg rating — 164 ratings — published 1951 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky (4 books)
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Quotes by Patrick Hamilton (?)

“Too much thought is bad for the soul, for art, and for crime. It is also a sign of middle age.”
― Patrick Hamilton

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“[...] at any rate there is nothing in the world more dreary, damping, and obscurely perturbing than to come out of a cinema in the afternoon to a noisy world.”
― Patrick Hamilton, Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky

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“The Law saith, Where is thy righteousness, goodness, and satisfaction? The Gospel saith, Christ is thy righteousness, goodness, and satisfaction.”
― Patrick Hamilton

tags: gospel, inspirational-religious, reformation

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Polls

July 2026 New School Classics Poll

A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute, 1950, 359 pgs.

36 votes, 31.0%

Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann, 1966, 448 pgs.

27 votes, 23.3%

The Slaves of Solitude by Patrick Hamilton, 1947, 242 pgs.

16 votes, 13.8%

Suite Française by Irène Némirovsky, 2004, 395 pgs.

15 votes, 12.9%

Three Comrades by Erich Maria Remarque, 1936, 496 pgs.

11 votes, 9.5%

Explosion in a Cathedral by Alejo Carpentier, 1962, 336 pgs.

6 votes, 5.2%

Petals of Blood by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, 1977, 432 pgs.

5 votes, 4.3%

116 total votes

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