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The savage gentleman

by Philip WylieBook 62 of 31 in Frontiers of Imagination
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Description

Betrayed by his wife, Stephen Stone spirits his son, Henry, away to a remote tropical island and trains him to be an ideal physical specimen and a perfect gentleman. After years of isolation, Henry Stone is now a young man, standing a full six feet two inches tall and weighing 190 pounds. His hair is bronze, his eyes turquoise, his skin mahogany—a magnificent man. When Henry finally returns to civilization, he finds that his father's business has grown into a news empire. Though he is the owner of this huge conglomerate, a great conversationalist and excellent company, well versed in etiquette, and extraordinarily nice, Henry has never seen a woman. Indeed his father has taught him never to trust a female and that love itself is a myth. When Henry collides with the contemporary world and the modern woman, the collision is necessarily fascinating and complicated for both Henry and the society he is discovering.

What it’s like

ViolenceStandard
SpiceModerate
ProfanityMild

Details

First published
1932
Pages
186
Reading time
About 4 hours
Format
Novel
Audience
Adult
Publisher
Bison Books
Language
English
ISBN
9780803234604
Series
Frontiers of Imagination, Book 62

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