The Captain with the Whiskers (Masterplots II: British and Commonwealth Fiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Benedict Kiely
- First Published: 1960
- Type of Work: Romance
- Time of Work: Probably the late 1940’s to the early 1950’s
- Setting: Northern Ireland and Dublin
- Principal Characters: Owen Rodgers, Captain Conway Chesney, Maeve Chesney, Doctor Grierson, Lucy
- Genres: Long fiction, Bildungsroman
- Subjects: 1950’s, Freedom, Children, Family or family life, Self-discovery, Love or romance, Sin or Original sin, 1940’s, Good and evil, Hotels, motels, or inns, Ethics, Ireland or Irish people
- Locales: Dublin, Ireland, Northern Ireland
The Novel
The Captain with the Whiskers recounts the experiences of loyal, trusting Owen Rodgers with the world, the flesh, and the devil. The author, however, has succeeded in preventing the work from being as excessively schematic as such a bald description of its contents might suggest. With exemplary skill, he has woven an inescapable net of interrelationships between those three fateful terms by giving them a single origin. This origin is the captain with the whiskers, Conway Chesney, and even though he dies unexpectedly quite early in the novel, it is his...
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