Jaspar Tristram (Valancourt Classics) by A W Clarke

Jaspar Tristram (Valancourt Classics) by A W Clarke

'Mr Clarke is familiar with school-life, and writes about it amazingly well. The book deserves the attention of all those who care for the finer qualities of fiction. It is a remarkable book.' - The Times

'Far above the average novel.' - Saturday Review

'A real masterpiece.' - The Academy

'There is real power in it, and power of a somewhat rare kind. The author makes his story live as a real one to the mind of the reader.' - The Speaker

Based on the author's boarding school experiences at Radley College in the late 1870s, Jaspar Tristram (1899) is an extraordinary psychological study of the eponymous hero, tracing his thoughts and emotions as he proceeds from boyhood towards young adulthood: his unhappiness at school, his affection for the older boy Orr and later his love for his friend L. C. 'Elsie' Southwood. As A. D. Harvey writes in the Introduction, it is 'one of the most painfully convincing portrayals of adolescence ever written'. Though presented in the safer guise of a story of 'schoolboy friendships', it is also one of the earliest gay-themed English novels ever published.

Praised by late-Victorian critics, Jaspar Tristram quickly became a cult favourite in gay literary circles, counting Oscar Wilde (who called it 'charming'), Edward Carpenter, and Marc-Andr Raffalovich among its admirers, and it is also a likely influence on E. M. Forster's Maurice and Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited. This first-ever republication of the only novel by A. W. Clarke (1860-1913) reprints the unabridged text of the scarce first edition and includes a new introduction.

A.D. Harvey was born in 1947 and educated at St. John's College, Oxford and University (now Wolfson) College, Cambridge. His books include English Poetry in a Changing Society, 1780-1825 (1980), Collision of Empires: Britain in Three World Wars, 1793-1945 (1992) and Sex in Georgian England: Attitudes and Prejudices from the 1720s to the 1820s (1994), all of which have been reissued in paperback. He has also written for The Times Literary Supplement, BBC History Magazine, Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes and Militargeschichtliche Zeitschrift.

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ISBN 13	9781941147481
ISBN 10	1941147488
Title	Jaspar Tristram (Valancourt Classics)
Author	A W Clarke
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Valancourt Books
Year published	2015-02-10
Number of pages	298
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