I Am Jonathan Scrivener
A British Literature, Literary Fiction, Literature book. If love is what the world thinks it is," she...
James Wrexham is thirty-nine, lonely, and stuck in a dead-end job when he comes upon an advertisement for a position as secretary to Mr. Jonathan Scrivener. Much to his surprise, he is hired at a lavish salary despite never even meeting Scrivener, and he is told to take up residence at once in the flat of his new employer, who has suddenly disappeared. Mystified by Scrivener’s strange conduct and desperate to learn something about him, it seems Wrexham will get the answers he seeks when Scrivener’s friends begin to visit the flat: Pauline Mandeville, an ethereal beauty, Francesca Bellamy, a widow who may be responsible for the death of her husband, Andrew Middleton, a disillusioned alcoholic, and Antony Rivers, a handsome playboy. But as...
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- Pages: 280 pages
- ISBN: 9781939140081 / 1939140080
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If love is what the world thinks it is," she went on with passionate emphasis, "then I am incapable of it. It is monotony, and I loathe monotony more than anything else in the universe. To live with a person, year in, year out; to see that person at nearly every meal; to hear his opinions again and again! My God, is that what they call love? I call it death! I need passion, colour, the unexpectedthe romance of the unknown! Claude Houghton, I Am Jonathan Scrivener // There is in all of us a spirit of scepticism which remains with us all our lives. Our most treasured beliefs dwell in its shadow. It exists because we are all afraid of being duped. And with some of us, who have knelt before many idols only to discover eventually that they are things of stone made by men, this spirit of scepticism persists no matter how convincing the evidence may be that our doubts are baseless. For some of us it is not enough to see Lazarus raised from the dead. Claude Houghton, I Am Jonathan Scrivener //
This philosophical and psychological mystery was published in 1930. As such, it is an interesting look at some aspects of upper class Britain in the inter-war years. It has been highly praised and yet has never been very popular except among those who have read it.James Wrexham, a 39 year old man, answers an advertisement and takes... Raise what battle-cry you will, every echo has only one answer and the answer of each echo is Change. For the old order has failed and the new order is in the agony of birthBritish writer Claude Houghton (1889 1961) once uttered the pessimistic statement that all his fiction was based on the belief that modern civilization would collapse... Imagine the inverse of Bartelby the Scrivener: a handsome, talented, rich young man who is partly the eponymous hero. The clerk though tells the story. The clerk James Wrexham, a nameless nobody, has been leading a miserable and lonely life until he reads an ad from Scrivener and becomes oddly Scrivener's secretary, obliged to catalogue...
