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Description : Boy is a classic novel from the British novelist, Marie Corelli who enjoyed a period of great literary success from the publication of her first novel, A Romance of Two Worlds in 1886. In those days, Corelli's novels sold more copies than the combined sales of popular contemporaries, such as Arthur Conan Doyle, H. G. Wells and Rudyard Kipling. Although her novels were popular, the critics blamed her work as "the favourite of the common multitude." Boy, is a story of a young 'Boy" who had a careless and neglectful upbringing by his drunken father and his lazy and unintelligent wife. Doted on by the kindly Miss Leslie and her companion, The Major, he is fortunately sent to school in Brittany and then to an English Military School. He grows up to be a slim and awkward youth, indifferent and blasé and is expelled for drunkenness. Falling into bad company he runs up debts, and even defrauds Miss Leslie. Ashamed, he then enlists in the Army, is sent to the Boer War, and is killed in action saving the life of a childhood friend. An outstanding novel by this great British novelist!
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