Fiction of Gay Interest

Flame of Freedom
Reginald Underwood
Publisher: Fortune Press
London, UK

Year


 		1936 FIRST EDITION       
Cover / size: Hardback / h 19.5 cm * w 13.7 cm / 238 pp

Dustjacket?   no

ISBN: n/a

Arbery Ref:   000473

Condition Fair to Good

Boards: front and rear are faux crocodile, red, generally good apart from some marking at back and small pit in front. Spine is red cloth with gilded lettering, severely marked and faded. Book leans forward slightly. Page edges: top severely mottled; leading edge severely mottled and very roughly cut; foot severely mottled and roughly cut. Front endpaper, stained and previous bookseller's price and comments in pencil; spine loose at this point. Rear endpaper slightly mottled. Some pages lightly mottled, but generally clean apart from severe mottling at edges. [Note: in some places "Grent" is printed as "Grant" and in two or three places the "a" in Grant has been overwritten "e"]

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Plot / Content:                              Rating: G

22-year-old Julian Ferrers, the only son of a domineering industrialist in the English Midlands, runs away to London when his father learns that he has made his girlfriend pregnant. In the big city, he finds himself torn between the strong friendship he feels for 35-year-old Don, who gives him somewhere to live, and the love he has for 21-year-old Olive, a streetwalker who has taken to him.

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Background / Biography:

Little is known about Reginald Underwood, other than he wrote several gay-themed novels for the Fortune Press.

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"'Then you are quite free to do as you like?' Gerald supposed, with an emphasis as if he had at last come to the main point.

'Rather,' said Julian.

'That's good, because I was going to ask you to come and stay the night with me. I have a nice little flat. There'll be nobody to interfere with us. What do you say?'

Gerald laid his arm affectionately upon Julian's shoulder. Julian leaned a little towards him with a maudlin smile. 'Do you really mean it?' he inquired, feeling for moment - superficially at any rate - that he could fling his arms around this sudden friend in need. The tought of spending the night in civilized comforta away from the depressing inconveniences of Rowton House . . .

At that moment Gerald chanced to look toward the farther end of the bar, where he caught the eye of a dandified young male, who slowly and significantly winked. Gerald's attitude abruptly changed. He glanced at Julian, who had noticed nothing, and said, 'Excuse me a moment; there's a chap over there I want to speak to. I won't be a minute; then we'll get out of here. He threaded his way through the crowd and joined his acquaintance. Apparently they had something particularly private to discuss, for they passed together through a door over which the word GENTLEMEN was prominently displayed."

pp 64 - 65, ellipsis in original




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