Appius and Virginia

Appius and Virginia
G E Trevelyan, Brad Bigelow
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h198 x 129mm - 240pg
16 Nov 2020 UK
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9781785632181
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Virginia Hutton embarks upon an experiment. She will take an ape and raise it as a human child. She purchases an infant orangutan and names him Appius. She clothes him, feeds him, and puts him to bed in a cot every night. As Appius grows older, she teaches him to dress himself, to speak, to read, to stand and walk up straight, to eat his meals at the dining table with a knife and fork. She teaches him how to be human. The young orangutan is not always a willing student. His relationship with Virginia becomes fraught and flits between that of mother and child, teacher and student, scientist and experiment. But as Appius gains knowledge he moves ever closer to the one discovery Virginia does not want him to make: that of his true origins. Appius and Virginia explores the ongoing conflict between nature and nurture. It is also a chilling and unforgettable portrait of loneliness.
' A work by a new author which is exciting both in promise and achievement. Miss Trevelyan has made a brilliant debut' - The Spectator, ' One lays down the book grieving oddly over this half-man and feeling that in some sense he is symbolic of human destinies' - New Statesman, ' So original is it, indeed, that I have scruples about writing the word "novel" at all. One must feel grateful to anybody with a sufficiently strong mind to break such new ground' - Gerald Gould
G. E. Trevelyan wrote eight groundbreaking novels between 1932 and 1941 but her writing career was tragically cut short when her flat was hit by a German bomb during the Blitz. She died shortly afterwards and her books have subsequently been largely forgotten. This publication, the first reissue of any of her books since her death, seeks to restore the author to her rightful place in British literature.

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