Biographies of three gifted Englishmen who died young, tracing how 20th-century British society shaped their brief, brilliant lives.
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Biographies of three gifted Englishmen who died young, tracing how 20th-century British society shaped their brief, brilliant lives.
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In The Fatal Englishman, his first work of nonfiction, Sebastian Faulks explores the lives of three remarkable men. Each had the seeds of greatness; each was a beacon to his generation and left something of value behind; yet each one died tragically young.Christopher Wood, only twenty-nine when he killed himself, was a painter who lived most of his short life in the beau monde of 1920s Paris, WHERE his charm, good looks, and the dissolute life that followed them sometimes frustrated his ambition...
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Sexual content
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Affairs, dissolute sex lives, and a honey-trap; biographical not graphic
Violence & gore
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WWII air combat; horrific burns, disfigurement, and a fatal crash
Profanity
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Substance use
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Alcoholism drives one subject's ruin; heavy drinking and excess recur
LGBTQ+ Rep.
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Gay primary subject; homosexuality and its illegality are key themes
Religious content
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Magic & witchcraft
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Not present
Occult / demonology
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Political content
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British class, wartime ethos, Cold War spies, and shifting social norms
Self-harm / suicide
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One subject's suicide is detailed; themes of self-destructive living
Abuse & suffering
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Severe burn trauma; blackmail and sexual coercion of a gay man
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