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The Happy Warrior

     - A.S.M. Hutchinson

Hardback

Pub. 1912 Thomas Nelson & Sons Ltd, London, Edinburgh and New York.

470 pages

Condition - torn flyleaf, and page 19 torn at gutter but all present. Otherwise in good tidy condition. See photographs.

The author, Arthur Stuart-Menteth Hutchinson (1880-1971) was a British novelist, born in India to a distinguished soldier and a mother from a noble Scottish family, the Stuart Menteths. The Happy Warrior was his second novel and a favourable critique appeared in the New York Times on March 9, 1913. A later novel, If Winter Comes, was the best selling book in the United States throughout 1922 according to that same newspaper. Some of Hutchinson's work was ahead of its time, dealing with topics such as unhappy marriage, divorce, suicide and unmarried mothers. Other works were more controversial and he was seen by womens' rights campaigners as anti-feminist with the novel This Freedom although this did little to dim his popularity with the book achieving 7th highest sales in America in 1923 and 6th best throughout 1924. Perhaps that gives an interesting insight into the sexual politics of the era.  

Hutchinson continued writing until 1960 when he published his final novel Of Swinburne.

Like other Hutchinson novels, The Happy Warrior was made into two black and white silent movies, the first in 1917 by the Clarendon Film Company under the direction of F Martin Thornton, and again in 1925 by Vitagraph under the direction of J Stuart Blackton.

Price £7.50

Product Code: THE416

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