Name: Belchamber
SKU: 1944326
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Author: E. M. Forster
ISBN: 9781590172667

Type

Physical Book

Author

Howard Sturgis

Introduction by

Edmund White

Epilogue by

E. M. Forster

Publisher

New York Review of Books

Year

2008

Language

English

Pages

368

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.3x12.9x1.6 cm

Weight

0.36 kg.

ISBN

1590172663

ISBN13

9781590172667

Synopsis "Belchamber"

Charles Edwin William Augustus Chambers--Marquis and Earl of Belchamber, Viscount Charmington, and Baron St. Edmunds and Chambers--known familiarly as Sainty, is the scion of an ancient English aristocratic family. Behind him stretches a rogues' gallery of picturesque upper-crust scoundrels. But he is uninterested in riding to hounds or drinking or whoring in the great tradition of his forebears, and though he admires his tough-minded puritanical Scottish mother, he lacks her unrelenting moral self-assurance. Sainty is instead a sensitive soul, physically delicate, sexually timid, intellectually inclined, utterly honest, and thoroughly decent, but constitutionally incapable of asserting himself. When it comes to assuming the responsibilities of his inheritance, to managing his feckless younger brother Albert or fathoming his sly cousin Clyde, and, above all, to the essential business of marrying and continuing the family line, Sainty hasn't a prayer.

E. M. Forster

(Epilogue by)

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Edward Morgan Forster was a British novelist, essayist, and librettist, belonging to the Bloomsbury Group and noted for highlights of the Edwardian Era. His works address class differences and the hypocrisy of general society

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