Things Human by Benton Stuart (13 results)

Paperback. Condition: New. Here is a remarkable vintage tour-de-force of the Fifties, in which Stuart Benton explores the range of human experience from the sublime to the exotically degrading.Marriage, illicit love, the uneasy relationship between children and parents, business success and failure, a trial for murder, a descent into the underworld of society, and later ascent to the delights of a swiftly-moving, jaded society set-all these can be found in the fabric of All Things Human.John Stuart Kent is a millionaire banker and aesthete, living out the Indian Summer of his life as the shape of his future is altered by five extraordinary women:Helen, his young wife, a resentful Galatea whose pathological jealousy cools their relationship.Sylvia, a fascinating and magnanimous Wagnerian singer, with flaming red hair and a fresh attitude toward love.Aimee, a courtesan, par excellence.Edda, Kent's secretary, sweet, young and unashamed who fumbles into scandalous catastrophe.Ivy, a sophisticate of enormous wealth and esoteric accomplishments.John Stuart Kent endures a Faust-like descent to a modern, mechanized Hell, experiencing all the humiliations and betrayals of modern society and its strange criminal procedures on his way. In the fight for his good name and his liberty, Kent must use all of his charm and wit, and enlist the help of a few friends, or he could be stuck in the abyss of the criminal system forever. …

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Paperback. Condition: Brand New. reprint edition. 383 pages. 8.75x5.75x1.25 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Condition: New. Here is a remarkable vintage tour-de-force of the Fifties, in which Stuart Benton explores the range of human experience from the sublime to the exotically degrading.Marriage, illicit love, the uneasy relationship between children and parents, business success and failure, a trial for murder, a descent into the underworld of society, and later ascent to the delights of a swiftly-moving, jaded society set-all these can be found in the fabric of All Things Human.John Stuart Kent is a millionaire banker and aesthete, living out the Indian Summer of his life as the shape of his future is altered by five extraordinary women:Helen, his young wife, a resentful Galatea whose pathological jealousy cools their relationship.Sylvia, a fascinating and magnanimous Wagnerian singer, with flaming red hair and a fresh attitude toward love.Aimee, a courtesan, par excellence.Edda, Kent's secretary, sweet, young and unashamed who fumbles into scandalous catastrophe.Ivy, a sophisticate of enormous wealth and esoteric accomplishments.John Stuart Kent endures a Faust-like descent to a modern, mechanized Hell, experiencing all the humiliations and betrayals of modern society and its strange criminal procedures on his way. In the fight for his good name and his liberty, Kent must use all of his charm and wit, and enlist the help of a few friends, or he could be stuck in the abyss of the criminal system forever. …

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Here is a remarkable vintage tour-de-force of the Fifties, in which Stuart Benton explores the range of human experience from the sublime to the exotically degrading.Marriage, illicit love, the uneasy relationship between children and parents, business success and failure, a trial for murder, a descent into the underworld of society, and later ascent to the delights of a swiftly-moving, jaded society setall these can be found in the fabric of All Things Human.John Stuart Kent is a millionaire banker and aesthete, living out the Indian Summer of his life as the shape of his future is altered by five extraordinary women:Helen, his young wife, a resentful Galatea whose pathological jealousy cools their relationship.Sylvia, a fascinating and magnanimous Wagnerian singer, with flaming red hair and a fresh attitude toward love.Aimee, a courtesan, par excellence.Edda, Kents secretary, sweet, young and unashamed who fumbles into scandalous catastrophe.Ivy, a sophisticate of enormous wealth and esoteric accomplishments.John Stuart Kent endures a Faust-like descent to a modern, mechanized Hell, experiencing all the humiliations and betrayals of modern society and its strange criminal procedures on his way. In the fight for his good name and his liberty, Kent must use all of his charm and wit, and enlist the help of a few friends, or he could be stuck in the abyss of the criminal system forever. An epic novel of love, passion, crime, and the criminal system set in America in the 1940s. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. First edition, first printing of a salacious early "lost gay novel" written under a pen name by George Sylvester Viereck, prolific poet and fascist propagandist. 383 pp. Bound in publisher's black cloth with spine lettered in yellow. Near Fine, lightly worn, in a Very Good unclipped dust jacket with moderate wear and shallow chipping to crown, rubbing at extremities. A novel with overt homosexual themes about a millionaire, Stuart Kent, who is wrongfully imprisoned for a murder he did not commit and has life-changing gay experiences in prison. Anthony Slide notes in Lost Gay Novels that the book "requires tolerance from the reader. Although, in all honesty, much of it is so outrageous that one cannot help but read on in awe at what the author will come up with next." After his release, Stuart soon yearns to be reunited once again with his young convict lover, Jack, and gets arrested on purpose. Born in Munich to an aristocratic family, Vierick acted as a German agent and propagandist in the US from WWI to WWII, and afterwards stayed in contact with elements of the Nazi diaspora during the early Cold War. In 1933 he traveled to Berlin to personally meet then Chancellor of Germany, Adolf Hitler and gave a speech at Madison Square Garden to over 20,000 Friends of New Germany members. He was indicted in 1941 for a violation against the Foreign Agents Registration Act and spent three years in prison. When not propagandizing and spying, he also was "something of a scandalous poet whose verse dealt with sexual imagery," as Slide notes. He edited an American edition of Oscar Wilde's Panthea and Other Poems and penned a Wildean decadent vampire novel Das Haus des Vampires in 1907. Slide writes, "The publisher [Sheridan House] claimed that although the prison scenes in All Things Human were 'not for the squeamish,' they were 'authenticated by the author's own experiences." Quite uncommon in the trade.…

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - Here is a remarkable vintage tour-de-force of the Fifties, in which Stuart Benton explores the range of human experience from the sublime to the exotically degrading.Marriage, illicit love, the uneasy relationship between children and parents, business success and failure, a trial for murder, a descent into the underworld of society, and later ascent to the delights of a swiftly-moving, jaded society setall these can be found in the fabric of All Things Human.John Stuart Kent is a millionaire banker and aesthete, living out the Indian Summer of his life as the shape of his future is altered by five extraordinary women:Helen, his young wife, a resentful Galatea whose pathological jealousy cools their relationship.Sylvia, a fascinating and magnanimous Wagnerian singer, with flaming red hair and a fresh attitude toward love.Aimee, a courtesan, par excellence.Edda, Kent's secretary, sweet, young and unashamed who fumbles into scandalous catastrophe.Ivy, a sophisticate of enormous wealth and esoteric accomplishments.John Stuart Kent endures a Faust-like descent to a modern, mechanized Hell, experiencing all the humiliations and betrayals of modern society and its strange criminal procedures on his way. In the fight for his good name and his liberty, Kent must use all of his charm and wit, and enlist the help of a few friends, or he could be stuck in the abyss of the criminal system forever.…

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Here is a remarkable vintage tour-de-force of the Fifties, in which Stuart Benton explores the range of human experience from the sublime to the exotically degrading.Marriage, illicit love, the uneasy relationship between children and parents, business success and failure, a trial for murder, a descent into the underworld of society, and later ascent to the delights of a swiftly-moving, jaded society setall these can be found in the fabric of All Things Human.John Stuart Kent is a millionaire banker and aesthete, living out the Indian Summer of his life as the shape of his future is altered by five extraordinary women:Helen, his young wife, a resentful Galatea whose pathological jealousy cools their relationship.Sylvia, a fascinating and magnanimous Wagnerian singer, with flaming red hair and a fresh attitude toward love.Aimee, a courtesan, par excellence.Edda, Kents secretary, sweet, young and unashamed who fumbles into scandalous catastrophe.Ivy, a sophisticate of enormous wealth and esoteric accomplishments.John Stuart Kent endures a Faust-like descent to a modern, mechanized Hell, experiencing all the humiliations and betrayals of modern society and its strange criminal procedures on his way. In the fight for his good name and his liberty, Kent must use all of his charm and wit, and enlist the help of a few friends, or he could be stuck in the abyss of the criminal system forever. An epic novel of love, passion, crime, and the criminal system set in America in the 1940s. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

Condition: New. Dieser Artikel ist ein Print on Demand Artikel und wird nach Ihrer Bestellung fuer Sie gedruckt. An epic novel of love, passion, crime, and the criminal system set in America in the 1940s.&Uumlber den AutorStuart Benton was a pen name of George Sylvester Viereck author of more than 20 novels, including My First Two Thousand Yea.…