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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
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Cecil Dreeme (Hardcover)
Theodore Winthrop
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R2,103
R1,996
Discovery Miles 19 960
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John Brent (Hardcover)
Theodore Winthrop
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R2,103
R1,996
Discovery Miles 19 960
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Cecil Dreeme (Hardcover)
Theodore Winthrop
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R2,107
R1,999
Discovery Miles 19 990
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Cecil Dreeme (Hardcover)
Theodore Winthrop
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R2,102
R1,995
Discovery Miles 19 950
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John Brent (Paperback)
Theodore Winthrop; Edited by Dean H Propst
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R736
Discovery Miles 7 360
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An curious gem of 19th-century gothic fiction Cecil Dreeme is one
of the queerest American novels of the 19th century. This edition,
which includes a new introduction contextualizing the sexual
history of the period and queer longings of the book, brings a
rare, almost forgotten, sensational gothic novel set in New York's
West Village back to light. Published posthumously in 1861, the
novel centers on Robert Byng, a young man who moves back to New
York after traveling abroad and finds himself unmarried and
underemployed, adrift in the heathenish dens of lower Manhattan.
When he takes up rooms in "Chrysalis College"-a thinly veiled
version of the 19th-century New York University building in
Washington Square-he quickly finds himself infatuated with a young
painter lodging there, named Cecil Dreeme. As their friendship
grows and the novel unfolds against the backdrop of the bohemian
West Village, Robert confesses that he "loves Cecil with a love
passing the love of women." Yet, there are dark forces at work in
the form of the sinister and magnetic Densdeth, a charismatic
figure of bad intention, who seeks to ensnare Robert for his own.
Full of romantic entanglements, mistaken identity, blackmail, and
the dramas of temptation and submission, Cecil Dreeme is a gothic
novel at its finest. Poetically written-with flashes of Walt
Whitman, Charles Dickens, and Oscar Wilde-Cecil Dreeme is an early
example of that rare bird, a queer novel from the 19th century.
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