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A late Benson novel which may disappoint anyone in search of the bizarreries of Mapp, Lucia and his other comic triumphs. It may also disappoint some of us who rate Benson as a writer to be reckoned with. Set in collegiate Cambridge and later in Cornwall, the protagonists are a young don, Maurice Crofts and an impossibly 'beautiful' undergraduate called Steven Gervase. Steven is in search of some intangible, primaeval emotional and spiritual reality or truthfulness and sees in Maurice a fellow-traveller. Much of the novel is taken up chronicling Maurice's obsession with Steven, his subsequent realisation that the unconditional nonconformity of his beloved involves an inhuman degree of selfishness and absence of basic fellow feeling and Steven's inability to turn away from the lure of the wild satyric rites he enjoys in the woods of his Cornish estates and become the father and gentleman that the world expects him to be. Crucial to the plot and possibly destructive to the credibility of the novel on a narrative level is the detail that the Gervases are subject to a devastating curse(that's a real curse, folks) which involves the first-born son of each generation being blighted by ap

Author

Benson, E. F. (Edward Frederic), 1867-1940

Publisher

Millivres Books

Published

1992

Language

EN

ISBN

9781873741061

Rating

3.81 / 5 (25 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14