The Brooke Family of Whitchurch, Hampshire, England

The Brooke Family of Whitchurch, Hampshire, England - together with an account of Acting-governor Robert Brooke of Maryland and Colonel Ninian Beall of Maryland and some of their descendants is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1899.
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A fugitive form of reminiscence, and often disarmingly clever, this has a very special appeal at an aesthetic-intellectual level

Vorwort
A tour de force of autobiographical fiction by one of the most fascinating writers of the mid-twentieth century

Autorentext
Jocelyn Brooke was born in 1908 on the south coast and educated at Bedales and Worcester College, Oxford. He worked in London for a while, then in the family wine-merchants in Folkestone, Kent. In 1939, Brooke enlisted in the Royal Army Medical Corps, and reenlisted after the war as a Regular. The critical success of The Military Orchid (1948), the first volume of his autobiographical Orchid trilogy, provided the opportunity to buy himself out, and he immediately settled down to write, publishing some fifteen titles between 1948 and 1955, including the successive volumes of the trilogy, A Mine of Serpents (1949) and The Goose Cathedral (1950). His other published work includes two volumes of poetry, the novels The Image of a Drawn Sword (1950) and The Dog at Clambercrown (1955), as well as some technical works on botany. A perceptive reviewer, Brooke wrote critiques of Aldous Huxley, Elizabeth Bowen, Ronald Firbank, and John Betjeman. He also introduced and edited the journals and published works of Denton Welch. Jocelyn Brooke died in 1966.

Zusammenfassung

The Dog at Clambercrown takes its name from a mysterious pub - seductive and frightening, never visited, only heard of that fascinates Brooke's child narrator in this beautiful and utterly original work of autobiographical fiction.

Both a journey through Europe and a return to the forbidden kingdoms of a Kentish childhood, the novel interweaves past and present as Brooke, responding to the magical potency of Abroad, summons the obsessions and terrors of his youth, and conjures an almost pagan vision of the English countryside even as he sits down to tea with the Sicilian mafia.

First published in 1955, The Dog at Clambercrown epitomises what Anthony Powell termed as Brooke's unique genre of reminiscence lightly touched with fiction. Disarmingly clever, deliciously opinionated and irrepressibly amusing, this neglected classic of gay literature is ripe for rediscovery.

'One of the most interesting and talented of contemporary writers' Anthony Powell

'He is subtle as the devil' John Betjeman

'Here is a writer possessed by the magicthe voodooof childhood' ­ New Statesman