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In the social scene known as 'cap and town' in fictional Churchton, Illinois (read 'Evanston and Northwestern University') comes young instructor Bertram Cope. Blond, blue-eyed, charming and book-learned, with a patina of conversational sophistication; he is, however, not quite genuine. Impressed by wealth and well-appointed houses, Cope is too careful and self-conscious - and what he doesn't realize is that he is observed and judged as often as he observes and judges.

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"Bertram Cope's Year" by Henry Blake Fuller. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Bertram Cope's Year 1 COPE AT A COLLEGE TEA What is a man's best age? Peter Ibbetson, entering dreamland with complete freedom to choose, chose twenty-eight, and kept there. But twenty-eight, for our present purpose, has a drawback: a man of that age, if endowed with ordinary gifts and responsive to ordinary opportunities, is undeniably--a man; whereas what we require here is something just a little short of that. Wanted, in fact, a young male who shall seem fully adult to those who are younger still, and who may even appear the accomplished flower of virility to an idealizing maid or so, yet who shall elicit from the middle-aged the kindly indulgence due a boy. Perhaps you will say that even a man of twenty-eight may seem only a boy to a man of seventy. However, no septuagenarian is to figure in these pages. Our elders will be but in the middle forties and the earlier fifties; and we must find for them an age which may evoke their friendly interest, and yet be likely to call forth, besides that, their sympathy and their longing admiration, and later their tolerance, their patience, and even their forgiveness. I think, then, that Bertram Cope, when he began to intrigue the little group which dwelt among the quadruple avenues of elms that led to the campus in Churchton, was but about twenty-four,--certainly not a day more than twenty-five. If twenty-eight is the ideal age, the best is all the better for being just a little ahead. Of course Cope was not an undergraduate--a species upon which many of the Churchtonians languidly refused to bestow their regard. "They come, and they go," said these prosperous and comfortable burghers; "and, after all, they're more or less alike, and more or less unrewarding." Besides, the Bigger Town, with a

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"An entertaining satirical novel (set in a thinly camouflaged Evanston, Ill), that was written and published nearly 80 years ago by a once well-regarded but now nearly forgotten Chicago novelist and poet, Henry Blake Fuller. Modern readers may be reminded of several novels and films its main themes foreshadow: 'The Object of My Affection,' 'Stephen McCauley's account of a young woman who falls in love with a gay teacher. 'Something for Everyone,' in which Michael York plays an amoral hustler who erotically manipulates an entire household, Pasolini's brilliant 'Teoreme,' featuring Terence Stamp as a seductive stranger who beds every member of a bourgeois household....Audacious for its time, 'Bertram Cope's Year' was either ignored or misunderstood when it was first published, with few copies sold. Discouraged, Fuller burned both the original manuscript and the remaining unbound proofs. 'There seems to be no way,' he wrote his friend Hamlin Garland, 'for one to get read or paid, so - Shutters up.' It is a pleasure to have those shutters taken back down to reveal an engaging and quite undeservedly neglected comedy of bad manners.' -The New York Times "Mr. H. B. Fuller's realism is the real thing; in seeming to register it interprets and portrays. Therefore your initial reservations as to Bertram Cope's importance or salience as a subject may well have been forgotten if not consciously withdrawn when the full portrait is before you. he is a nice clean boy of the midlands who not long after his respectable graduation returns to his old university for what turns out to be a single year's service as instructor....He is tolerably successful with his work and happy in it, but we have chiefly concerned with his extra-professional experiences." -The Weekly Review "A welcome addition to the series of studies of American life and character which have come all too intermittently and charily from the hand of Henry B. Fuller....The kind of novel which must be enjoyed not for its matter so much as for its quality, its richness of texture and subtlety of atmosphere. It has distinction, is as finely wrought in its way as a Howells novel or a Cable." -The Bookman "Marked by sly satire of people and things....Mr. Fuller is a prolific writer who clothes his thoughts in pleasing language." -The Baptist