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Desmond Coke's, The Bending of a Twig, first published in 1906, is intended as a parody of the traditional school story. It tells of the experiences of its hero, Lycidas Marsh, at Shrewsbury School and is based on memories of Coke's own school days there. Coke pokes fun at other school stories such as Eric, Tom Brown, The Hill, and St. Dominic's by preparing his protagonist for public school life through reading and absorbing the contents of these stories! This approach is adopted because Lycidas March's father is not himself a public school man. Needless to say, the preparation is not a success, and only when Lycidas abandon ways of behaving according to these stories, does he really start to fit in at Shrewsbury.</div>
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Desmond Francis Talbot Coke (1879-1931) was a writer of stories for boys who was educated at Shrewsbury School and University College, Oxford. War injuries meant that he was invalided out of active service in 1917 and at the invitation of Lex Devine, the founder of Clayesmore School, joined the staff at his school, which was, by then, located in Iwerne Minster House, Dorset. Among his pupils at the school was Edward Ardizzone (1900-1979), destined to become a well-known book illustrator, who eagerly sought his teacher's opinions on art and the approval of his early work. Desmond Coke wrote under his own name and also used the pseudonym of Belinda Blinders. </div>
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<span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif; font-size: medium;">In this highly readable and underrated novel, Howard Sturgis, with gifted penmanship, portrays a rich and vibrant account of self-indulgent aristocratic life in England at the beginning of the 20th century. The main arch of the story traces the career of a young man-"Sainty"-Edwin William Augustus Chambers, Marquis and Earl of Belchamber-who is brought up in the midst of great luxury and privilege. Sainty is both "lame" in the leg due to a youthful riding accident and decidedly "scholarly" in his pursuits. Sainty is Sturgis's portrait of a sexually ambivalent (implicitly homosexual) young aristocrat who is pressured (for the sake of the family line and doing what is expected) into a loveless marriage with a woman who, like his mother, is also domineering and dismissive of his real interests and sensibilities. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif; font-size: medium;">Howard Overing Sturgis (1855-1920) was born in England to wealthy American expatriates. He attended Eton before going up to Cambridge. He became friends with Henry James, E. M. Forster, A. C. Benson, and Edith Wharton. After the death of his parents, inheriting a sizeable fortune, he bought a house in the country which he named Queen's Acre or Qu'acre. "Howdie" (as Sturgis was known) and his much-younger lover William Haynes-Smith (who he called "the Babe") entertained a wide circle of friends, including bohemian young Etonians, aristocrats and notable literary figures. Sturgis was a popular society host known for his biting wit and talent for mimicry. He was the author of two other novels published before Belchamber-Tim: A Story of School Life (1891), and All That Was Possible (1895).</span></div>
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Desmond Coke's "The Worst House at Sherborough," is a good example of the English public school genre story. First published in book form in 1913, the year before the outbreak of the Great War. The main arch of the story concerns the various attempts made by Dick Hunter to improve the lackluster performance of Wilson's House. Owing to a reversal of family fortunes, Dick Hunter is faced with the alternative of leaving Sherborough or taking up the post of Head Boy in Wilson's House, usually known as "Weary Willie's" on account of its general slackness. To Hunter, a keen athlete, Captain of the Boats, and hitherto the most popular boy in School House, the idea of helping Wilson's "pull up its socks" is scarcely less repugnant than leaving the school altogether. However, Dick makes up his mind to go through with it. The "Willieites" have no desire to excel at games or anything else. Dick valiantly hammers away at this unpromising material for a long time without result; but at last he succeeds in cultivating enough enthusiasm among the younger boys, which in time leads to sporting glory for Wilson's.</b></span></div>
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Desmond Francis Talbot Coke (1879-1931) was a writer of stories for boys who was educated at Shrewsbury School and University College, Oxford. In addition to his interest in writing, Desmond Coke also became a notable collector. War injuries meant that he was invalided out of active service in 1917 and at the invitation of Lex Devine, the founder of Clayesmore School, joined the staff at his school, which was, by then, located in Iwerne Minster House, Dorset. Among his pupils at the school was Edward Ardizzone (1900-1979), destined to become a well-known book illustrator, who eagerly sought his teacher's opinions on art and the approval of his early work. Desmond Coke wrote under his own name and also used the pseudonym of Belinda Blinders.</div>
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The theme of devoted friendship between two English public schoolboys--the aristocratic and glamorous blood Harry Venniker and the unprepossessing and rather pious scholar Gerald Eversley--is celebrated in the Rev. J.E.C. Welldon's public school genre novel--Gerard Eversley's Friendship--first published in 1895. Although set in the fictitious school of St. Anselm's, the novel is actually based on Harrow School, where Welldon held the position of Headmaster from 1885-1898. Although not as well written as E.F. Benson's later public school novel David Blaize, (Welldon is prone to over sentimentalize situations and dialogue) it is nevertheless still a rather enjoyable and amusing read, focused, as it is, on the world of idealized male relationships between two boys drawn from different social backgrounds whose lives become inseparably intertwined during the course of unfolding events.</div>
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James Edward Cowell Welldon (1854-1937) was an English clergyman, public school headmaster, Anglican bishop, and scholar. He was the author and translator of a number of classical and theological works. As Headmaster of Harrow School, Welldon was known to the boys as "the Porker"--no doubt uncharitably--on account of his substantial frame and somewhat 'porcus'-like facial appearance. Welldon never married. For nearly fifty years he maintained a close companionship with his devoted manservant, Edward Hudson Perkins, whose death in 1932 was a severe emotional blow to him. He died at the age of 83.</div>
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1st Viewforth Classics edition. Craig Paterson, General Editor.Viewforth Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02281361050643663640noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-919624037713377188.post-75871326475380467032011-08-29T09:02:00.000-07:002011-08-29T09:02:42.600-07:00Viewforth Press: Tell England: A Study in a Generation / Ernest Raymond / Craig Paterson ed.<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #1b1b1b; font-family: georgia; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px;"></span><br />
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The story begins with the public school lives of Rupert Ray and his school friends. Pranks played on the teachers are told from Rupert's perspective. Their school lives teach them honesty, courage and sportsmanship. When war comes the boys eagerly leave to join the army as officers. The boys begin to feel the tragedy and heroism of war when their school comrades begin to die. When Ray returns to England he is compelled to write and tell England what they have experienced.<br />
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The imagery of the First World War-the trenches, no-man's-land, barbed wire, gas, slaughter-captured in newsreels, photographs, memoirs, and poems, tells of the war as a living nighmare. There is, however, another side to this war of mass slaughter, mutilation and despair. There was innocence, patriotism, enthusiasm, gallantry, and sportsmanship-the war of schoolboys and subalterns. This is a side of the war that is feelingly and movingly evoked in Raymond's Tell England: "Tell England, ye who pass this monument, We died for her, and here we rest content."<br />
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A. Vachell <i>(Author)</i></span></span></span></strong></div><div><span><span><span><span><strong><span style="color: blue; font-family: georgia, serif;">Dr. Craig Paterson (<i>General Series Editor</i>)</span></strong></span></span></span></span></div><div><span><span><span><span><strong><span style="color: blue; font-family: georgia, serif;"><br />
</span></strong></span></span></span></span></div></div><div dir="ltr"><div><div style="display: inline !important;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><b>H. A. Vachell’s ‘John Verney’ was first published in 1911. It is a sequel to his very popular ‘The Hill,’ (1905) an enjoyable and well written schoolboy novel set at Harrow. The story develops John Verney’s life beyond the confines of Harrow into the world of Edwardian politics. His earlier schoolboy rivalry with Reginald Scaife (The Demon) is the main focus of the book, as honour and truth battle with deceit and underhandedness. Verney and Scaife face political battles in electioneering for Parliament and intense rivalry for the hand of the fair Sheila Desmond, the sister of Verney’s and Scaife’s dear school friend Caesar (Henry Desmond), who was killed in action during the Anglo-Boer War. The sequel is a very worthy addition to ‘The Hill’ and should not be missed!</b></span></div></div><div><div style="display: inline !important;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><b><br />
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</div><div>This 1st Viewforth Classics edition is a revised edition of the 1911 text with new typesetting, notes, page layout, and corrections. Craig Paterson, General Editor, Viewforth Classics.</div></div><div><br />
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</strong></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="color: blue;"><strong> </strong></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="color: blue;"><strong>While Vachell's novel does not quite rival the very best of the genre, especially E.F. Benson's superb David Blaize, it is nevertheless a fascinating, humorous and enjoyable read. The Hill is highly recommended for all lovers of "boys own" school stories as well as for those who wish to explore the social values and customs of upper class English education during the late Victorian era.</strong></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><strong><br />
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</strong></span></div><div style="line-height: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><strong>This 1st Viewforth Classics edition is a revised edition of the 1905 text with new typesetting, page layout and corrections. Craig Paterson, General Editor, Viewforth Classics.</strong></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><br />
</b></span></div>LCCN: 2011931031 -- ISBN/EAN13: 1463535163 / 9781463535162 -- Page Count: 246 -- Binding Type: US Trade Paper -- Trim Size: 6" x 9" -- Language: English -- Color: Black and White -- Related Categories: Fiction / Classics; Fiction / Schools.</b></span></div></div></div>Viewforth Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02281361050643663640noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-919624037713377188.post-4430538588781933092011-04-13T09:05:00.000-07:002011-04-13T09:05:27.407-07:00Viewforth Press - New Title - The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde<div><span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"><strong><div style="display: inline; float: left; font-size: large; margin: 5px 10px 0px 0px;"><a href="http://www.viewforthpress.com/published/1461077176/1461077176.JPG?attredirects=0" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://www.viewforthpress.com/_/rsrc/1302546692134/published/1461077176/1461077176.JPG?height=200&width=145" width="145" /></a></div><div class="sites-layout-tile sites-tile-name-header"><div dir="ltr"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: x-large;"><strong>The Picture of Dorian Gray</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.createspace.com/3593921" rel="nofollow" style="color: white; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><strong>Buy@Createspace</strong></span></span></a><span><span><span style="color: red; font-size: x-small;"> </span></span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Picture-Dorian-Gray-Oscar-Wilde/dp/1461077176/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1302644293&sr=8-1" rel="nofollow" style="color: white; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><strong>Buy@Amazon</strong></span></span></a></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><span><span><span><span><strong><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Oscar Wilde <i>(Author)</i></span></span></strong></span></span></span></span><span><span><span><span><strong><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></strong></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span><span><span><span><strong><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: georgia,serif;">Dr. Craig Paterson (<i>General Series Editor</i>)</span></strong></span></span></span></span></div><div><span><span><span><span><span style="color: red;"></span></span></span></span></span> </div></div></div>Moral fantasy novel by Oscar Wilde, published in an early form in Lippincott's Magazine in 1890. The novel had six additional chapters when it appeared in book form in 1891. An archetypal tale of a young man who purchases eternal youth at the expense of his soul, the novel was a romantic exposition of Wilde's Aestheticism. Dorian Gray is a wealthy Englishman who gradually sinks into a life of dissipation and crime. Despite his unhealthy behavior, his physical appearance remains youthful and unmarked by dissolution. Instead, a portrait of himself catalogues every evil deed by turning his once handsome features into a hideous mask. When Gray destroys the painting, his face turns into a human replica of the portrait, and he dies.</strong></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"><br />
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</tbody></table><div class="book_details"><div class="book_reviews"><div class="book_editorial_reviews"><ul><li class="even first"><h3>Product Description</h3>Alcibiades (ca. 450 BC-ca. 404 BC), was the charismatic and controversial bisexual Athenian general and politician who promoted the <a href="http://www.blogger.com/Peloponnesian_War/" title="">Peloponnesian war</a> against rival <a href="http://www.blogger.com/sparta/" title="">Sparta</a>, who subsequently inspired <a href="http://www.blogger.com/Athens/" title="">Athens's</a> failed Sicilian Expedition, and who later allied himself with two of Athens's biggest enemies: Sparta and <a href="http://www.blogger.com/Persia/" title="">Persia</a>. His actions gravely affected the future of Athens and his motives and reasons for acting as he did are indeed the stuff of fascinating biography. Alcibiades's extraordinary beauty, great wealth, ostentatious vanity, male and female amours, debaucheries, and impious revels earned him notoriety not only in Athens but throughout the <a href="http://www.blogger.com/Hellenic_World/" title="">Hellenic world</a>. In subsequent ages his name was used as a near by-word for all kinds of excess. But, as Benson argues, reappraising Alcibiades's reputation, great as were his vices, his virtues were even greater ... Although The Life of Alcibiades was originally published in 1928, and there have been other newer detailed works published on Alcibiades since then, no other work captures the passion and the excitement of the brilliant but erratic career of Alcibiades as Benson's biography does. As the reader will discover, Benson evidently has much sympathy for his subject and this brings the entire biography to life. He combines detailed research, especially his use of primary materials from Thucydides and Plutarch, with <a href="http://www.blogger.com/writing/" title="">writing</a> flare, not an easy accomplishment. Front cover photograph: "Alcibiades", Ideal Male Portrait. Marble. <a href="http://www.blogger.com/Roman/" title="">Roman</a> copy after a <a href="http://www.blogger.com/greek/" title="">Greek</a> original of the 4th century BC. Palazzo dei Conservatori, Hall of the Triumphs. Back cover photograph: E. F. Benson, aged 26. </li>
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Alcibiades's extraordinary beauty, great wealth, ostentatious vanity, male and female amours, debaucheries, and impious revels earned him notoriety not only in Athens but throughout the Hellenic world. In subsequent ages his name was used as a near </strong></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><strong>byword for all kinds of excess. But, as Benson argues, reappraising Alcibiades's reputation, great as were his vices, his virtues were even greater ...<br />
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Although The Life of Alcibiades was originally published in 1928, and there have been other newer detailed works published on Alcibiades since then, no other work captures the passion and the excitement of the brilliant but erratic career of Alcibiades as Benson's biography does. As the reader will discover, Benson evidently has much sympathy for his subject and this brings the entire biography to life. He combines detailed research, especially his use of primary materials from Thucydides and Plutarch, with writing flare, not an easy accomplishment.<br />
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Front cover photograph: "Alcibiades", Ideal Male Portrait. Marble. Roman copy after a Greek original of the 4th century BC. Palazzo dei Conservatori, Hall of the Triumphs. Back cover photograph: E. F. Benson, aged 26.</strong></span></div></div><div style="display: block; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 5px; text-align: left; zoom: 1;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
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Dr. Craig Paterson is a philosopher and author. He now lives in Los Angeles, California.</strong></span> </div></div><div style="display: block; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 5px; text-align: left; zoom: 1;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
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Viewforth Press<div class="sites-layout-tile sites-tile-name-header" style="line-height: 16px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; padding-top: 0px;"><div dir="ltr"><div style="color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: black; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal;"><strong><span><span><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><em>The Life of Alcibiades: The Idol of Athens</em></span></span></span></span></strong></span> </div><div style="color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: 13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-size: x-large;"><strong><span><span style="font-size: medium;">E. F. 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His actions gravely affected the future of Athens and his motives and reasons for acting as he did are indeed the stuff of fascinating biography.</strong></span></div><div style="display: block; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 5px; text-align: left; zoom: 1;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><strong><br />
Alcibiades's extraordinary beauty, great wealth, ostentatious vanity, male and female amours, debaucheries, and impious revels earned him notoriety not only in Athens but throughout the Hellenic world. In subsequent ages his name was used as a near </strong></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><strong>byword for all kinds of excess. But, as Benson argues, reappraising Alcibiades's reputation, great as were his vices, his virtues were even greater ...<br />
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Although The Life of Alcibiades was originally published in 1928, and there have been other newer detailed works published on Alcibiades since then, no other work captures the passion and the excitement of the brilliant but erratic career of Alcibiades as Benson's biography does. As the reader will discover, Benson evidently has much sympathy for his subject and this brings the entire biography to life. He combines detailed research, especially his use of primary materials from Thucydides and Plutarch, with writing flare, not an easy accomplishment.<br />
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Front cover photograph: "Alcibiades", Ideal Male Portrait. Marble. Roman copy after a Greek original of the 4th century BC. Palazzo dei Conservatori, Hall of the Triumphs. Back cover photograph: E. F. Benson, aged 26.</strong></span></div><div style="display: block; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 5px; text-align: left; zoom: 1;"> </div><div style="display: block; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 5px; text-align: left; zoom: 1;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><strong>Edward Frederic Benson (1867-1940) was a prolific and much loved English novelist, biographer and short story writer. He was educated at Marlborough College, King's College, Cambridge (where he obtained a first in classics) and the British School of Archaeology in Athens. Benson is most famous for a series of comic novels he published during the 1920's and 1930's--"Mapp and Lucia". Benson was awarded an MBE and was made an Honorary Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford.<br />
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The novel was the first critical account of public school life to be published in Britain. The release of the novel had a considerable impact on readers because it provided a realistic and unsettling view of public school life. The novel stood in marked contrast to the rosy corpus of public school fiction and memoirs that had gone before. The Victorian and Edwardian public school system that existed was hitherto generally accepted as an indelible part of the education of an English gentleman. Until the publication of Lunn's novel, there had been no effective criticism of the reasons behind many of its rules and rituals. 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<strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Introduction by</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></span><a href="http://sites.google.com/site/drcpaterson/" style="text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Dr. Craig Paterson</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">.</span></span></strong><br />
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<hr /><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>David of King's is E.F. Benson's witty and well-observed novel of varsity life set at King's College, Cambridge during the early part of the 20th century. The novel was first published in 1924 when Benson was in his later fifties. The work was penned by Benson because of the success he had enjoyed with David Blaize, his schoolboy novel, first published in 1916. David of King's takes off where David Blaize ends. The novel covers three years of Blaize's undergraduate life. Enjoy more tales of Blaize and his different friendships with Maddox and Bags as they live and learn together as King'smen.</strong> </span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;"><strong><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"></span></strong></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: small;"><strong>David of King's is, above all, a "jolly enjoyable" read. Benson tells an absorbing story and he draws the reader into the cultural and social world of Blaize at King's College and more generally of Cambridge University. His stories of Blaize's encounters with colourful and eccentric dons--A.G. and Mr. Crowfoot--based on the real life characters O.B. (Oscar Browning) and Mr. J.E. Nixon--are absolute gems of affectionate humour and should not be missed.</strong></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
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<strong><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">This Viewforth Classic edition is a newly prepared and corrected version of the original text. Edited, with introduction and notes, by Dr. Craig Paterson.</span></strong></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"></span></div><div><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.ryesussex.co.uk/directory/192/edward-frederick-benson/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Edward Frederic Benson (1867-1940</strong></span></a><strong><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: red;">)</span> was a prolific and much loved English novelist, biographer and short story writer. He was educated at Marlborough College, King's College, Cambridge and the British School of Archaeology in Athens. Benson is most famous for a series of comic novels he published during the 1920's and 1930's--"Mapp and Lucia"--set in the small fictitious coastal town of Tilling. Benson was awarded an OBE by the King and was also made an Honorary Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford. He served as Mayor of the town of Rye from 1934-1937. </span></strong></span><br />
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David Blaize is E. F. Benson's delightfully nostalgic novel of English public school life. Benson follows young David Blaize from his time at preparatory school to his entry to the sixth form at Marchester College. The novel draws heavily on the author's own schoolboy experiences when at Temple Grove and then Marlborough College. Benson, better than most writers in this genre, memorably evokes the trials and tribulations of life in an English public school during the late Victorian period. The pages resonate with wit and humour. The reader is invited to follow young Blaize as he deals with eccentric masters, experiences halcyon days on the cricket field, frets over dreaded parental visits, and experiences personal growth through a platonic friendship with Maddox, a senior boy at Marchester ...<br />
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This is a newly edited and corrected version of the text. It contains a specially commissioned introduction as well as explanatory notes by Craig Paterson.<br />
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Edward Frederic Benson (1867-1940) was a prolific and much loved English novelist, biographer and short story writer. He was educated at Marlborough College, King's College, Cambridge and the British School of Archaeology in Athens. Benson is most famous for a series of comic novels he published during the 1920's and 1930's--"Mapp and Lucia"--set in the small fictitious coastal town of Tilling. Benson was awarded an OBE by the King and was also made an Honorary Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford. He served as Mayor of the town of Rye from 1934-1937. <br />
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Craig Paterson is a philosopher and author. He now lives in Los Angeles, California.<br />
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David Blaize<br />
Authored by E. F. Benson <br />
Introduction and notes by Craig Paterson <br />
Edited by Craig Paterson <br />
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Publication Date:Sep 01 2010<br />
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ISBN/EAN13: 1453763104 / 9781453763100<br />
Page Count:338<br />
Binding Type:US Trade Paper<br />
Trim Size:6" x 9"<br />
Language:English<br />
Color:Black and White<br />
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</ul><ul><li><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;"><em>The Babe, B.A.</em> by E. F. Benson</span>.</span></span></li>
</ul><ul><li><span style="font-family: georgia,serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #444444;"><em>Maurice</em> by E. M. Forster.</span></span></li>
</ul><ul><li><span style="font-family: georgia,serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #444444;"><em>The Harrovians</em> by Arnold Lunn.</span></span></li>
</ul><ul><li><span style="font-family: georgia,serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #444444;"><em>Eminent Victorians</em> by Lytton Strachey.</span></span></li>
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David Blaize is E. F. Benson's delightfully nostalgic novel of English public school life. Benson follows young David Blaize from his time at preparatory school to his entry to the sixth form at Marchester College. The novel draws heavily on the author's own schoolboy experiences when at Temple Grove and then Marlborough College. Benson, better than most writers in this genre, memorably evokes the trials and tribulations of life in an English public school during the late Victorian period. The pages resonate with wit and humour. The reader is invited to follow young Blaize as he deals with eccentric masters, experiences halcyon days on the cricket field, frets over dreaded parental visits, and experiences personal growth through a platonic friendship with Maddox, a senior boy at Marchester ... <br />
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This is a newly edited and corrected version of the text. It contains a specially commissioned introduction as well as explanatory notes by Craig Paterson.<br />
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Edward Frederic Benson (1867-1940) was a prolific and much loved English novelist, biographer and short story writer. He was educated at Marlborough College, King's College, Cambridge and the British School of Archaeology in Athens. Benson is most famous for a series of comic novels he published during the 1920's and 1930's--"Mapp and Lucia"--set in the small fictitious coastal town of Tilling. Benson was awarded an OBE by the King and was also made an Honorary Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford. He served as Mayor of the town of Rye from 1934-1937. <br />
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Craig Paterson is a philosopher and author. He now lives in Los Angeles, California.<br />
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David Blaize<br />
Authored by E. F. Benson <br />
Introduction and notes by Craig Paterson <br />
Edited by Craig Paterson <br />
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Publication Date:Sep 01 2010<br />
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ISBN/EAN13: 1453763104 / 9781453763100<br />
Page Count:338<br />
Binding Type:US Trade Paper<br />
Trim Size:6" x 9"<br />
Language:English<br />
Color:Black and White<br />
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