Search - List of Books by Jocelyn Brooke

Jocelyn Brooke (November 30, 1908 – 1966) was an English author born in Kent. He wrote several unusual and semi-autobiographical novels as well as some poetry. His most famous works include the Orchid Trilogy...The Military Orchid (1948), A Mine of Serpents (1949) and The Goose Cathedral (1950)...and the Kafkaesque Image of a Drawn Sword (1950).

Educated at Bedales (after escaping twice from a public school) and Worcester College, Oxford, Brooke's childhood revolved mostly around his principal interests of amateur botany and fireworks, in the shadow of the first World War. He joined the Royal Army Medical Corps during the next war, and elements of his experiences, and his love of the military life, appear in most of his later works.

Though the Orchid Trilogy strays into a typically English vein of humour, the idyllic land of his childhood and his obsession with le paradis perdu often bring in an element of intense melancholy, something developed in paranoia and isolation in The Image of a Drawn Sword.

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Total Books: 14
The Military Orchid and Other Novels
2009 - The Military Orchid and Other Novels (Paperback)Paperback
ISBN-13: 9780571246403
ISBN-10: 0571246400
Genre: Literature & Fiction
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The Image Of A Drawn Sword
2009 - The Image of a Drawn Sword (Hardcover)Paperback, Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9781104847715
ISBN-10: 110484771X
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The Image Of A Drawn Sword
2007 - The Image of a Drawn Sword (Paperback)Paperback, Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780548443941
ISBN-10: 0548443947
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The Military Orchid and Other Novels
2002 - The Military Orchid and Other Novels [Penguin Modern Classics] (Paperback)Paperback
ISBN-13: 9780141187136
ISBN-10: 0141187131
Genre: Literature & Fiction
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The Scapegoat
1998 - The Scapegoat (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781885983091
ISBN-10: 1885983093
Genres: Literature & Fiction, Gay & Lesbian
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1981 - Orchid Trilogy [King Penguin] (Paperback)Hardcover
1972 - Aldous Huxley [Writers & Their Work] (Paperback)
Orchid Trilogy
Orchid Trilogy (Hardcover)Paperback
ISBN-13: 9780436069505
ISBN-10: 0436069504
Genre: Literature & Fiction
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Elizabeth Bowen [Writers & Their Work S] (Hardcover)
Ronald Firbank and John Betjeman [Writers & Their Work S] (Hardcover)