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Worcester College.
(The author's fourth book overall, and the second volume i...)
The author's fourth book overall, and the second volume in his "Orchid" trilogy. Illustrations from old steel-engravings. Handsome dustjacket designed by P. Vinten
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( Over three decades and through two world wars, in the d...)
Over three decades and through two world wars, in the deserts of Libya and the woodlands of Italy, in the chalk downs of Kent, Sussex and Hampshire, he searched continually for his most beloved and elusive Orchis militaris, the military orchid. Jocelyn Brooke blends memoir, botany and satire to recall this lifelong quest.
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'Jocelyn Brooke's writing is imaginatively unique ... a great writer.' Elizabeth Bowen Flowers and fireworks, botany and pyrotechny: these were the twin passions of a delicate, sensitive boy growing up before the Great War. Part-memoir, part-imaginative re-creation, these novels evoke a tranquil England where orchids grew wild and undiscovered and a young boy's dreams and disappointments were as simple and moving as a guinea box of fireworks. From the mellow Kentish villages of his boyhood, to the brusque masculinity of the army, by way of painful years at prep school and Oxford, Jocelyn Brooke beautifully captures the torment and the delight of being a constant outsider. Witty, subtle and deceptively simple these three novels were highly acclaimed for the way they captured the unfolding of a melancholy, often painfully sensitive male consciousness, evoking a quintessentially English life.
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A chance meeting in Valetta years after the Second World War brings back an unwelcome childhood memory, but the narrator of Jocelyn Brooke's last novel (first published in 1961) cannot forget the man he has met, Geoffrey Greene, and the family he belonged to. It brings back to him the England he knew between the wars, memories of an apathetic middle-class existence, of jobs in insurance companies and bookshops, of grandiose suburban houses and the competing twilight-world of artistic and socialist Fitzrovia. Despite his dislike for the family, he finds his curiosity growing, and he is drawn into the seemingly dull and conventional world of the Greenes, just as he was in his youth. But, now in Malta, twenty years on, what has become of Greene's younger brother, the black sheep of the family, and his unlikely wife? And why is Greene himself so reluctant to return to England? Faber Finds has reissued five of Jocelyn Brooke's very individual novels: "The Military Orchid and Other Novels"; "The Image of the Drawn Sword"; "The Scapegoat"; "The Dog at Clambercrown"; and "Conventional Weapons".
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Worcester College.
He wrote several unique, semi-autobiographical novels, as well as some poetry. His most famous works include the Orchid Trilogy— (1948), (1949), and (1950)—and (1950). Educated at Bedales (after escaping twice from a public school) and Worcester College, Oxford, Brooke"s childhood revolved mostly around his principal interests of amateur botany and fireworks, in the shadow of the First World War.
"When the Second World War began he enlisted in the Royal Army Medical Corps (Royal Army Medical Corps) and became one of the pox wallahs, those working to treat venereal disease.
Brooke was decorated for bravery." Elements of his experiences, and his love of the military life, appear in most of his subsequent works. Though the Orchid Trilogy strays into a typically English vein of humour, the idyllic land of his childhood and his obsession with le paradis perdu often bring in an element of intense melancholy, something developed in paranoia and isolation in.
(A chance meeting in Valetta years after the Second World ...)
( Over three decades and through two world wars, in the d...)
(The author's fourth book overall, and the second volume i...)
('Jocelyn Brooke's writing is imaginatively unique ... a g...)
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