Lawrence Clavering: Love, Honor, and Sacrifice in the Victorian Era

by A.E.W. Mason

'Lawrence Clavering' is an adventure novel written by A. E. W. Mason. The story unfolds by showing us a portrait of Lawrence Clavering which hangs in the lodgings of the narrator in Avignon, France. The portrait was painted by Anthony Herbert and depicts Clavering in the midst of great suffering, with a dead white face, glassy bright eyes, and a mouth half-opened in pain. Herbert told a man named George Vertue that the portrait was of Clavering and that if Vertue wanted to know more about it, he should ask Clavering himself.

266 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 31, 2012

About the author

Major Alfred Edward Woodley Mason (7 May 1865 Dulwich, London - 22 November 1948 London) was a British author and politician. He is best remembered for his 1902 novel The Four Feathers.

He studied at Dulwich College and graduated from Trinity College, Oxford in 1888. He was a contemporary of fellow Liberal Anthony Hope, who went on to write the adventure novel The Prisoner of Zenda.

His first novel, A Romance of Wastdale, was published in 1895. He was the author of more than 20 books, including At The Villa Rose (1910), a mystery novel in which he introduced his French detective, Inspector Hanaud. His best-known book is The Four Feathers, which has been made into several films. Many consider it his masterpiece. Other books are The House of the Arrow (1924), No Other Tiger (1927), The Prisoner in the Opal (1929) and Fire Over England (1937).

Reviews

[Victoria Jackson · Rating 5 out of 5]

Escellent, set in Lake District at time of Jacobite Rebellion. Romantic adverture story with lovely descriptions of the Lakes and going across the fells with her in high shoes. Non stop action.