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Bertram Cope's Year

Bertram Cope's Year

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Number of Chapters: 33

Length: 8 hours and 48 minutes

Language: English

This novel was perhaps the most daring and affirmative LGBT literature of the first two decades of the 20th century in America. In this story, Bertram Cope is a young college instructor, about twenty-four years old ("certainly not a day over twenty-five"), who is pursued by men and women, both younger and older than himself. In writing this novel, Fuller had to carefully craft his plot schemes so as not to offend the sensibilities of publishers. As a result, today's reader is left somewhat, but not entirely, confused about the precise feelings that characters develop for one another by the end of the book. Nevertheless, no publishing house would touch it, which ultimately required that Fuller go the self-publishing route.

Bertram Cope's Year was the first novel by an established American writer that dealt exclusively with the subject of homosexuality. Although it did not achieve the notariety it deserved at the time, it set the tone for the increasingly open discussion of gay themes in literary form. (Introduction by James K. White)

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Cope at a College Tea (James K. White)
Cope Makes a Sunday Afternoon Call (James K. White)
Cope Is "Entertained" (James K. White)
Cope Is Considered (James K. White)
Cope Is Considered Further (James K. White)
Cope Dines--And Tells About It (James K. White)
Cope Under Scrutiny (James K. White)
Cope Undertakes An Excursion (James K. White)
Cope On The Edge Of Things (James K. White)
Cope At His House Party (James K. White)
Cope Enlivens The Country (James K. White)
Cope Amidst Cross-Purposes (James K. White)
Cope Dines Again--And Stays After (James K. White)
Cope Makes An Evasion (James K. White)
Cope Entertains Several Ladies (James K. White)
Cope Goes A-Sailing (James K. White)
Cope Among Cross-Currents (James K. White)
Cope At The Call Of Duty (James K. White)
Cope Finds Himself Committed (James K. White)
Cope Has A Distressful Christmas (James K. White)
Cope, Safeguarded, Calls Again (James K. White)
Cope Shall Be Rescued (James K. White)
Cope Regains His Freedom (James K. White)
Cope In Danger Anew (James K. White)
Cope In Double Danger (James K. White)
Cope As A Go-Between (James K. White)
Cope Escapes A Snare (James K. White)
Cope Absent From A Wedding (James K. White)
Cope Again In The Country (James K. White)
Cope As A Hero (James K. White)
Cope Gets New Light On His Chum (James K. White)
Cope Takes His Degree (James K. White)
Cope In A Final View (James K. White)
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