Bibliograph

For the pleasure of his company, an affair of the misty city, Charles Warren Stoddard

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For the pleasure of his company, an affair of the misty city, Charles Warren Stoddard

Language

eng

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no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

For the pleasure of his company

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dictionaries

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Charles Warren Stoddard

Sub title

an affair of the misty city

Summary

For the Pleasure of His Company: An Affair of the Misty City (1903) is a novel by Charles Warren Stoddard. Published toward the end of Stoddard's career as a poet and travel writer whose friends included Mark Twain and Ambrose Bierce, For the Pleasure of His Company: An Affair of the Misty City is a pioneering novel that explores the ambitions of a young artist while illuminating the struggles of gay men in a society, that failed to accept them as equals. At 25 years of age, Paul Clitheroe is "master of himself, but slave to fortune." A struggling writer, he lives a life of ennui and excess, looking for love and success without being sure of the shape of either. In the Misty City, he has begun making a name for himself among local editors and readers, finally finding publication for his work. Despite this modest success, he remains unsatisfied, unsure of himself, and increasingly restless. Are his mixed feelings merely a symptom of his poetic outlook, or something else altogether? When the debonair Foxlair invites Paul to join him on a voyage to the South Seas, a land of promise where gay men can live without fear of reprisal, he wonders if there is a place for him after all

Target audience

adult

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