Young Earnest The Romance of a Bad Start in Life

Hint: You can preview this book by clicking on "Preview" which is located under the cover of this book. About the author: Gilbert Cannan (25 June 1884 – 30 June 1955) was a British novelist and dramatist.Born in Manchester of Scottish descent, he got on badly with his family, and in 1897 he was sent to live in Oxford with the economist Edwin Cannan. He was educated at Manchester Grammar School and King's College, Cambridge; he started on a legal career, but turned to writing in 1908, after a short spell as an actor.Cannan worked first as a translator, and a reviewer in London publications. Many of his novels are in part autobiographical, and fit into a novel sequence the Lawrie Saga, around the character Stephen Lawrie. Samuel Butler was a major influence on his fiction. Excerpt from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert_Cannan