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Gay Fiction
Condition: Fair Classic Penguin format. Cover: wear to edges and corners, front heavily discoloured, back very stained (see picture). Book leans forward. Pen and ink inscriptions on pre-title page and brown edges throughout. click pics for larger image 
Plot / Content: A boy at public school in the early 20th century. Not gay themed, but occasional references to emotional and sexual bonding between boys. Background / Biography: "Alec Waugh was born in 1898. He is the son of Arthur Waugh, the critic who was for many years Chairman of [publishers] Chapman & Hall Ltd. Evelyn Waugh is his [now better known, writer] brother. He was educated at Sherborne and Sandhurst. "He wrote his first novel, The Loom of Youth, at the age of seventeen, during his Army training. It was published in July 1917 and was an instantaneous best seller. Its hold over the public has never lessened. "Alec Waugh was gazetted to the Dorset Regiment in 1917, was attached to the machine-gun corps and after nine months' service on the Western Front, was taken prisoner in March 1918. He has travelled extensively in the Far East, the West Indies and the South Seas. He has written a number of novels, short stories and travelogues, of which the best known are The Coloured Countries, The Baliols and Jill Somerset. "In 1939 he rejoined his regiment and served with the BEF (British Expeditionary Forces) in France." (from the book) Reviews: "Adolescence is the most intense period of our lives. As we enter adulthood, our bodies and minds bursting into flower, the world throws itself open to us. We are overwhelmed by sensations, by thoughts, by possibilities. Freedom beckons, although we do not understand what freedom means and we do not know if we are capable of pursuing it. We flee from our parents' stifling embrace into the company of our peers, thinking they know everything and unaware they are as ignorant as ourselves." Read the rest of the review by Martin Foreman here. Clicking on advertiser links on this site may allow these companies to gather and use information about your visit to this and other websites to provide you with advertisements about goods and services presumed to be of interest to you. |
Quote from this book "And in this state of depression, loning only for some means of temporarily dulling his senses, Gordon first began to take an interest in Morcombe. Morcome was considerably Gordon's junior; not so much in years - there was, as a matter of fact, only a few months between them - as in position. Morcombe had come late; had made little mark at either footer or cricket; and had finally drifted in to the Army class, where, owing to private tuition and extra hours, he found himself rather 'out of it' in the House. In hall he used to sit at the top of the able; and it was usual for the prefect, when he had grown tired of wandering around, to talk to the top two at the table. Taking hall was so unutterably dull (unless of course Rudd was the hall-keeper on which occasion an impromptu concert was held) that any kind of distraction was welcomed by the prefect on duty." opening paragraph, Book IV, Chapter IV, 'Romance'' Secondhand booksellers |
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