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Maiden voyage

Maiden Voyage is Denton Welch's debut novel, a frankly autobiographical account of a short period in his life when – at the age of 16 – he ran away from his English boarding school, before being sent back to Shanghai to live with his businessman father. “Trembling with sex", is how Alan Bennett wonderfully describes Maiden Voyage; and as well as portraying so acutely the passions and nameless longings of a teenage boy, and the strange quirks and brutalities of public school life, it is also a novel that deals with the agony of childhood bereavement – the suffering of a boy who has only recentl.

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  • "Maiden Voyage is Denton Welch's debut novel, a frankly autobiographical account of a short period in his life when – at the age of 16 – he ran away from his English boarding school, before being sent back to Shanghai to live with his businessman father. “Trembling with sex", is how Alan Bennett wonderfully describes Maiden Voyage; and as well as portraying so acutely the passions and nameless longings of a teenage boy, and the strange quirks and brutalities of public school life, it is also a novel that deals with the agony of childhood bereavement – the suffering of a boy who has only recentl."@en
  • "A moving coming-of-age novel based on the author’s adolescent experiences in China At sixteen, Denton Welch was attending school in Derbyshire, England. One morning, instead of taking the train to school, he caught a bus traveling in the opposite direction with no real plan except to start a new adventure. Although he reluctantly returned to school at his family’s bidding, he soon received a letter postmarked from Shanghai—a letter from his father suggesting that Denton join him China. So began a momentous journey that would shape young Denton Welch’s life. Leaving behind his companions at school as well as the life he had known, he traveled across the globe to China, where he was seized with a sense of wonder completely new to him. It was there, so far from his roots, that young Denton began to explore his ambitions, aspirations, and secret desires. Written with an artist’s keen sensibility for observation and inspired by J. R. Ackerley’s Hindoo Holiday , Maiden Voyage is an unforgettable tale of growing up and discovering oneself."@en
  • "Autobiography of a sensitive English schoolboy, who went to China, where his father was in business."@en

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  • "Biography"@en
  • "Biography"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Belletristische Darstellung"

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  • "Maiden voyage"
  • "Maiden voyage"@en
  • "Maiden voyage. [An autobiography.]"@en
  • "El viaje que fue"@es
  • "El viaje que fue : novela"
  • "Maiden voyage, by Denton Welch. [Foreword by Edith Sitwell. 2nd printing.]"
  • "Jungfernfahrt"
  • "Maiden voyage : [Portr.]"
  • "Voyage initiatique"
  • "Viaggio inaugurale"@it
  • "Viaggio inaugurale"
  • "Primer viaje"@es
  • "Maiden Voyage. [Autobiography. With a portrait.]"
  • "Maiden Voyage. [Autobiography. With a portrait.]"@en
  • "El viaje que fue novela"@es
  • "El Primer viaje"
  • "Maiden Voyage"@en
  • "Maiden Voyage"
  • "El primer viaje"@es
  • "El Viaje que fue"
  • "Maiden Voyage : A Novel"@en
  • "Jungfernfahrt : Roman"
  • "Jungfern Fahrt : Roman"

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