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Fathers of Men (1912) by: E. W. Hornung

Fathers of Men (1912) by: E. W. Hornung

Hornung, E. W.

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General Fiction

ISBN10: 1542980941
ISBN13: 9781542980944
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Feb 7 2017
Pages: 370
Weight: 1.09
Height: 0.77 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A boarding school tale which Hornung considered his finest work. Jan Rutter, a stable boy, is admitted to a public school, wrong accent and all. Unknown to him, Heriot, the house master, knows the secret which Rutter is desperate to keep, half-inclined as he is to run away. Their first meeting leaves Heriot and his sister in a quiet discussion. But you admit the public school is a crucible, she argued. And what's a crucible but a melting-pot? A melting-pot for characteristics, but not for character! he cried. Take the two boys upstairs: in four or five years one will have more to say for himself, I hope, and the other will leave more unsaid; but the self that each expresses will be the same self, even though we have turned a first-rate groom into a second-rate gentleman. 'The Child, ' remember, and not the school, 'is father of the Man

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