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Condition: Good Cover: scuffing to edges; spine uncreased but severely faded. Page edges stained. Half-title page has short ink inscription and erased bookseller's price. Pages browning but otherwise clean and binding tight. Plot / Content: About a homosexual Member of Parliament Background / Biography: Compton Mackenzie (1883 - 1972) was a prolific author, whose works included Sinister Street (1914) and Whisky Galore (1947 - based on a true story and filmed in 1948). Married three times, he was probably not gay, although his works include the multi-sexual Vestal Fire and the lesbian-themed novel: Extraordinary Women and Vestal Fire. Wikipedia credits Mackenzie as a prolific English-born Scottish novelist and nationalist, yet ignores the fact he was also briefly a soldier and spy in the First World War. For other books by this author from Arbery Books use the search box in the left column. Reviews: 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 "Henry Fortescue did not come up to the University until the Hilary term of 1897. He had been staying with Edward Carstairs, one of the attachés at the British Embassy in Constantinople, whom he had known in his first half at Eton. We had started a freshmen's society called after some Balliol worthy of the past, at which he read a paper on the Turkish question. At this moment we were most of us inclined to think that the Sublime Porte was a blot on the map. The Armenian massacres and atrocities followed by the outrageous behaviour of Abdullah Pasha in Crete had caused much passion and there were many who desired that Great Britain should withdraw from the mutual jealousies of the Concert of Powers and deal sternly with the Sublime Porte. When we heard that Fortescue was to read a paper on the situation in Turkey we attended the meeting in force, expecting some sensational news at first hand. " Chapter 1, second paragraph Secondhand booksellers |
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