An Average Man

The fourth of Robert Hugh Benson's "mainstream" novels, An Average Man is a far from average production. First published in 1913 and only appearing since in a limited edition in 1945, An Average Man may well be Benson's finest achievement, as well as his most subtle and mature work.

This novel rips to shreds the assumptions on which Edwardian upper class society believed civilization itself was built. Worldly success destroys one "average man," while it presents another, afflicted with seemingly endless and crushing defeats, with the opportunity of practicing virtue of a heroic stature.

An Average Man dissects the idea that full participation in the common good is only for an elite, promoting the revolutionary concept that life is for everyone.





340 pages

ISBN # 9781602100084

$20.00 USD
£14.00 UK

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