As long as the light continues, diverse stories

As long as the light continues, various stories: Author: Agatha Christie Language: Arabic Publication date: 2016 Book format: Paperback Publisher: Jarir Bookstore Number of pages: 232 Book genre: Novels and stories Description: This story deals with the life of John Segrave, that unsatisfactory life. It also deals with his lost love, his dreams, and his death, and although he found in sleep and death what he did not find in love and life, perhaps we can say that he lived a happy life. Who knows? John Segrave descends from a family whose living conditions worsened over the past century; his family members had been major landowners since the time of Queen Elizabeth, but they sold all their properties. They firmly believed that one of the family members must pursue a profession to earn money. And luck! John was chosen to be the son who must do that. It was not logical for John — that man with a thin mouth and narrow dark blue eyes that resembled dwarf eyes — to be the suitable person to be sacrificed for money. He had to bid farewell to those things he loved: the smell of the earth, the taste of sea salt on his lips, and that clear sky stretching above him. John worked as a junior employee in a major trading company, and he was not more than eighteen years old. After seven years, John was still an employee — perhaps no longer a beginner — but his job rank had not changed either. The idea of "advancing in life" had no place in John's vocabulary. He lived the life of employees; where discipline and diligence at work were all there was.