Howard Sturgis Book order
Howard Sturgis was an American novelist born in England to a wealthy family, who befriended Edith Wharton and Henry James. His novels offer keen insight into the lives of the English aristocracy. Through his work, Sturgis delves into the nuances of social circles and character psychology, crafting penetrating portraits of his era. His writing is distinguished by its delicate observation and attention to detail.
- 2023
- 2009
Tim. Roman
- 218 pages
- 8 hours of reading
Die Erzählung beschreibt die tief emotionale Zuneigung des Knaben Tim zu seinem Freund Carol. Um deren Beziehung nicht zu belasten, täuscht Tim Gleichgültigkeit vor, was die idealen, aber homosexuellen Gefühle zwischen den beiden klar hervorhebt.
- 1986
Belchamber
- 346 pages
- 13 hours of reading
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.
