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"Mr. Kitchin has achieved a very considerable feat . . . written with amazing economy . . . in short, it is a work of art." - Spectator "A writer who deserves to be admired and cherished." - Francis King "Mr. Kitchin is one of the cleverest, most intellectual, and most challenging of our novelists, and he has the rare merit of giving these qualities the flavour of a personality: they humanise and refresh his story instead of drying it up." - L. P. Hartley "Clever and ruthless." - Guardian "Remind yourself twenty times a day, how you, an intelligent and attractive woman of thirty-six, are squandering your life in an uncomfortable house, full of selfish half-wits, deprived of friends, all reasonable interests, and even reasonable affection. Make plans for your own future, and be hard." This is Hector Moxhay's advice to his sister, Margaret, whose guilt over a cruel act she committed years ago keeps her shackled to her despotic father and mentally disturbed sister. But when old Mr. Moxhay's grandson John is expelled from school over a homosexual scandal, a chain of events is set in motion that will lead to unexpected consequences for the family and a possible means of escape for Margaret. Will she continue to sacrifice herself to her father's tyranny and her sister's mental illness? Or will she have the strength and courage to break free and make a bid for her own happiness? Featuring many of the same qualities and themes that would distinguish his later masterpieces, C.H.B. Kitchin's The Sensitive One (1931) was originally published to critical acclaim by Leonard and Virginia Woolf's Hogarth Press and counted L. P. Hartley and Lytton Strachey among its many admirers. This first-ever republication of the novel includes a new introduction by David Robinson discussing the queer subtexts of this unusual and remarkable novel.… (más)
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Archibald Moxhay punt the book face downwards, as he had found it, on a remote green plush settee.
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Mr. Moxhay's feelings towards him were complex. He disliked him more than any of his children, for his financial independence and aloofness from the family. At the same time, these odious qualities gave him a prestige which none of the others enjoyed, and Mr. Moxhay began to credit him with abilities which he may not have possessed, and to believe that if only he could be persuaded to replace Archibald in the business it might regain its old prosperity. For this reason, when Stuart, whose sense of duty always came perilously near to tale-bearing, made some unfavourable but vague comments on Hector's way of life, Mr. Moxhay was slow to seek greater precision of detail, in the hope that if he turned a blind eye to whatever it was that Stuart intended him to see, Hector might once more draw near to the fold, and play the part of a dutiful son. Once caught and bound by a contract, he could be bullied and humbled. Margaret saw the casting of the net, and hardly knew what to pray for. It was unbearable to think that Hector should be harried and put upon as Archibald had been, but even more unbearable to think of his perpetual banishment from the house and an embargo on further intercourse with him. She was uncertain both how much Stuart knew, and how much her father had been told, but she had some experience of Stuart's gift for discovering the truth when it was ugly. (Hamburg: The Albatross 1932, p. 159-160)
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They walked on a long time in silence. 'Margaret, do you know where we are?' 'No -- but it doesn't matter.'
"Mr. Kitchin has achieved a very considerable feat . . . written with amazing economy . . . in short, it is a work of art." - Spectator "A writer who deserves to be admired and cherished." - Francis King "Mr. Kitchin is one of the cleverest, most intellectual, and most challenging of our novelists, and he has the rare merit of giving these qualities the flavour of a personality: they humanise and refresh his story instead of drying it up." - L. P. Hartley "Clever and ruthless." - Guardian "Remind yourself twenty times a day, how you, an intelligent and attractive woman of thirty-six, are squandering your life in an uncomfortable house, full of selfish half-wits, deprived of friends, all reasonable interests, and even reasonable affection. Make plans for your own future, and be hard." This is Hector Moxhay's advice to his sister, Margaret, whose guilt over a cruel act she committed years ago keeps her shackled to her despotic father and mentally disturbed sister. But when old Mr. Moxhay's grandson John is expelled from school over a homosexual scandal, a chain of events is set in motion that will lead to unexpected consequences for the family and a possible means of escape for Margaret. Will she continue to sacrifice herself to her father's tyranny and her sister's mental illness? Or will she have the strength and courage to break free and make a bid for her own happiness? Featuring many of the same qualities and themes that would distinguish his later masterpieces, C.H.B. Kitchin's The Sensitive One (1931) was originally published to critical acclaim by Leonard and Virginia Woolf's Hogarth Press and counted L. P. Hartley and Lytton Strachey among its many admirers. This first-ever republication of the novel includes a new introduction by David Robinson discussing the queer subtexts of this unusual and remarkable novel.
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