Appointment with Fortune

Hansome, Marius

Published by Vantage Press, New York, 1955

About this Item

Owner's signature, light wear; Dust Jacket edgeworn, 1/2" tear, smaller tears with creasing, rubbed, pencil "39" on front cover, wear. Solid hardcover. ; Semi-autobiographical novel by socialist, leading scholar in worker education Hansome. "Cast out under the stigma of illegitimacy by a hypocritical society, fatherless and without roots, Maisse sets forth at fourteen to keep an appointment with Destiny. . Not often in literature does there appear a figure of the proportions of Maisse - a figure in the honored tradition of the true revolutionary, the lover of democracy, driven by the injustice worked against him to achieve euity and dignity for his fellow man. Maisse finds in the life of a sailor before the mast and in the teaching profession of the West of 1914 a constant challenge to battle the strangling pressure of the backwards-looking, of those who would cling to their own security by blocking the path of progress." ; 247 pages. Seller Inventory # 15665

Bibliographic Details

Title: Appointment with Fortune

Publisher: Vantage Press, New York

Publication Date: 1955

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Dust Jacket Condition: Good