The Invention Of Love

by Tom Stoppard

2021-01-01 13:01:21

It is 1936 and A. E. Housman is being ferried across the river Styx, glad to be dead at last. The river that flows through Tom Stoppard's The Invention of Love connects Hades with the Oxford of Housman's youth: High Victorian morality is under siege ... Read more
It is 1936 and A. E. Housman is being ferried across the river Styx, glad to be dead at last. The river that flows through Tom Stoppard's The Invention of Love connects Hades with the Oxford of Housman's youth: High Victorian morality is under siege from the Aesthetic movement, and an Irish student named Wilde is preparing to burst onto the London scene. On his journey the elder Housman confronts the younger version of himself and his memories of the man he loved his entire life, Moses Jackson -- the handsome athlete who could not return his feelings. Less

Book Details

File size8.28 X 5.56 X 0.35 in
Print pages128
PublisherGrove Press
Publication date September 1, 1998
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780802135810
Sir Tom Stoppard OM CBE FRSL HonFBA (born 3 July 1937) is a Czech-born British playwright and screenwriter. He has written for television, radio, film, and stage, finding prominence with plays such as...

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