Download or read book The Military Orchid and Other Novels written by Jocelyn Brooke and published by . This book was released on 2002-06-27 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Flowers and fireworks, botany and pyrotechny: these were the twin passions of a delicate, sensitive boy growing up before the Great War. Part memoir, part imaginative re-creation, these novels evoke a tranquil England where orchids grew wild and undiscovered and a young boy's dreams and disappointments were as simple and moving as a guinea box of fireworks. From the mellow Kentish villages of his boyhood, to the brusque masculinity of the army, by way of painful years at prep school and Oxford, Jocelyn Brooke captures the torment and the delight of being a constant outsider."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved