Gerald Eversley's Friendship: A Study in Real Life

By James Edward Cowell Welldon

Book Overview

The theme of devoted friendship between two English public schoolboys--the aristocratic and glamorous blood Harry Venniker and the unprepossessing and rather pious scholar Gerald Eversley--is celebrated in the Rev. J.E.C. Welldon's public school genre novel--Gerard Eversley's Friendship--first published in 1895. Although set in the fictitious school of St. Anselm's, the novel is actually based on Harrow School, where Welldon held the position of Headmaster from 1885-1898. Although not as well written as E.F. Benson's later public school novel David Blaize, (Welldon is prone to over sentimentalize situations and dialogue) it is nevertheless still a rather enjoyable and amusing read, focused, as it is, on the world of idealized male relationships between two boys drawn from different social backgrounds whose lives become inseparably intertwined during the course of unfolding events.Edited with notes by Craig Paterson, PhD, General Editor, Viewforth Classics Series.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1466381744
• ISBN13: 9781466381742
• Release Date: March 2012
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 210 Pages
• Weight: 0.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.5" x 6.0"