Description: Simon Called Peter by Robert Keable London: Constable and Company, Ltd., n.d. [circa 1929] Constable Popular Edition. Copyright page states "Two Hundred and Sixty-Fourth Thousand" Hardcover. Blue cloth with black titles & designs to front & spine. 347 pp. 5" x 7-3/8". Constable & Co. reader reply card laid in. Very good in good dust jacket. Mild, even toning & scattered foxing to pages. Toning to end papers. Otherwise, interior clean & unmarked. Binding firm; slight lean to spine. Covers have light wear to corners & spine ends; mild rubbing along spine edges; mild sun-fading to spine. Dust jacket is chipped at top front edge, at spine ends & at corners, & along bottom edge; a few tears along edges & at corners; soiling to spine, along flap folds & to rear panel; a faint stain to rear panel; vertical creases to left side of front panel with a bit of rubbing to lower portion of panel. DJ comes protected by new, archival cover. A largely autobiographical work, Simon Called Peter is the story of a priest, Peter Graham, who has an affair in wartime France with a nurse named Julie. The title character almost abandons his faith for love, but experiences a direct revelation of Christ while watching a Catholic mass and is given up by his lover, who sees his sincerity. In real life, Robert Keable resigned from his ministry with the Church of England & abandoned his wife in order to be with Grace Eileen Joly Beresford Buck, who was the model for Julie. Together, Keable & Buck moved to Tahiti in 1922. Despite (or perhaps because of) its controversial subject matter, Simon Called Peter was an international success, selling hundreds of thousands of copies & being adapted into a stage play. The novel was so ubiquitous during the Roaring Twenties that it is even referred to in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby by Nick Carraway, the narrator, who reads a chapter after becoming inebriated and claims that "either it was terrible stuff or the whisky distorted things, because it didn't make any sense to me." An attractive & desirable copy, especially in the scarce, provocative dust jacket designed by "Forster". A nice addition to your collection or as a gift. Ships well-packed in a box.
Price: 225 USD
Location: Harrisonburg, Virginia
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Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Special Attributes: Dust Jacket, Popular Edition
Author: Robert Keable
Publisher: Constable and Company, Ltd.
Topic: Literature, Modern
Subject: Literature & Fiction
