First published in 1945, "In Youth Is Pleasure" is a beautiful and unassuming coming-of-age novel by the English writer and painter Denton Welch (1915-1948). Painfully sensitive and sad Orville Pym is 15 years old, and this novel recounts the summer holid
A masterpiece of self-analysis by the British novelist Denton Welch, who recounts the far-reaching struggle of his short life through a cloud of personal affliction and tragedy.
Denton Welch's first novel Maiden Voyage (1946) recounts Welch's adventures as a boy when, after running away from his English public school, he was sent to Shanghai to live with his father for a year. Welch's keen observations - of his tortured relations
