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Belchamber
[Paperback - 2008]
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Category: Fiction
Sub-category: Literary Fiction
Publisher: Nyrb Classics | ISBN: 9781590172667 | Pages: 368
Shipping Weight: .374 | Dimensions: 5 x .8 x 8 inches

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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.

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Howard Overing Sturgis is also widely known asHoward Sturgisor, especially in german speaking Countries, asHoward O. Sturgis.He was the youngest son of a rich American living in England. Even as a child, he metHenry Adams,William Makepeace ThackerayandHenry James. Henry James became a friend and mentor of Sturgis. He studied in Eton and Cambridge. After his parents went by, he bought a country house near Eton. There he and his lover William Haynes-Smith frequently entertained their friends, including Henry James,Edith WhartonandGeorge Santayana.Sturgis is the author of three novels:•Tim. A Story of School Life(1891)•All That Was Possible(1895)•Belchamber(1904).TimandBelchamberare gay themed.AfterBelchamberhas failed he only published one short story (On the Pottlecombe Cornice) in 1908 and ended his career.

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