David Blaize (1916) - Couverture rigide

Benson, Edward Frederic

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1436612896 ISBN 13 : 9781436612890

Editeur : Kessinger Publishing, 2008

Synopsis

David Blaize is a novel written by Edward Frederic Benson and published in 1916. The story follows the life of David Blaize, a young boy who attends an English public school in the early 20th century. The novel is a coming-of-age tale that explores the themes of friendship, love, and the challenges of growing up in a society that values tradition and conformity. David is a sensitive and intelligent boy who struggles to fit in with the other boys at school. He is an outsider, often teased and bullied for his bookishness and lack of athletic ability. Despite this, David forms close friendships with a few other boys, including his roommate, Percy, and the school's headmaster, Dr. Yorke. As David grows older, he begins to develop romantic feelings for one of his classmates, the beautiful and popular Guy. However, Guy is interested in a girl named Clare, and David must come to terms with his unrequited love. Throughout the novel, David must navigate the complexities of school life while also dealing with personal challenges and tragedies. He learns important lessons about loyalty, courage, and the importance of being true to oneself. Overall, David Blaize is a poignant and engaging novel that offers a glimpse into the world of English public schools in the early 20th century. It is a timeless coming-of-age story that will resonate with readers of all ages.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

There was a new class-room in course of construction for the first form at Helmsworth Preparatory School, and the ten senior boys, whose united ages amounted to some hundred and thirty years, were taken for the time being in the school museum. This was a big boarded room, covered with corrugated iron and built out somewhat separate from the other class rooms at the corner of the cricketfield. The arrangement had many advantages from the point of view of the boys, for the room was full of agreeably distracting and interesting objects, and Cicero almost ceased to be tedious, even when he wr,otjb bout friendship, if, when you were construing, you could, meditate on the skeleton of a kangaro j; whi Qhstood immediately in front of you, and refresh yourself with the sight of the stuffed seal on wjise nce the short-sighted Ferrers Major had balanced hife spectacles before Mr. Dutton came in. Or, again, it was agreeable to speculate on the number of buns a mammoth might be able to put simultaneously into his mouth, seeing that a huge yellowish object that stood on the top of one of the cases was just one of his teeth. ..
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Biographie de l'auteur

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. Craig Paterson is a philosopher and author. He now lives in Los Angeles, California.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Kessinger Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1436612896
• ISBN 13: 9781436612890
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 368
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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