Appointment with Fortune
New York: Vantage Press, 1955.
Hardcover. Very Good in Good dust jacket. Item #15665
Owner's signature, light wear; Dust Jacket edgeworn, 1/2" tear, smaller tears with creasing, rubbed, pencil "39" on front cover, wear. Solid hardcover. ; Semi-autobiographical novel by socialist, leading scholar in worker education Hansome. "Cast out under the stigma of illegitimacy by a hypocritical society, fatherless and without roots, Maisse sets forth at fourteen to keep an appointment with Destiny. ... Not often in literature does there appear a figure of the proportions of Maisse - a figure in the honored tradition of the true revolutionary, the lover of democracy, driven by the injustice worked against him to achieve euity and dignity for his fellow man. Maisse finds in the life of a sailor before the mast and in the teaching profession of the West of 1914 a constant challenge to battle the strangling pressure of the backwards-looking, of those who would cling to their own security by blocking the path of progress." ; 247 pages.
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