{"product_id":"tim-gay-classics-series-paperback","title":"Tim (Gay Classics Series) - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Tim\" (1891) is a delicate portrayal of a sensitive boy's devoted affection for an older boy-a very touching story of a tender and self-forgetful character. --- Howard Overing Sturgis (1855-1920) was an English writer, the author of only three novels: \"All That Was Possible,\" \"Tim,\" and \"Belchamber.\" He attended Eton College, where some of the scenes in \"Tim\" take place. He was an intimate friend of Henry James. --- \"My dearest of all Howards, I long so for news of you that nothing but this act of aggression will serve, and that even though I know (none better ) what a heavy, not to say intolerable overburdening of illness is the request that those even too afflicted to feed themselves shall feed the post with vivid accounts of themselves. But though I don't in the least imagine that you are not feeding yourself (I hope very regularly and daintily, ) this is all the same an irresistible surrender to sentiments of which you are the loved object-downright crude affection, fond interest, uncontrollable yearning. Look you, it isn't a request for anything, even though I languish in the vague-it's just a renewed \"declaration\"-of dispositions long, I trust familiar to you and which my uncertainty itself makes me want, for my relief, to reiterate...\" (Henry James to Howard Sturgis, Sept. 2nd, 1913)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50481712431327,"sku":"9781595691309","price":23.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/VTM2enZmRUNST0t3ZERFc3dLSHJWQT09.webp?v=1782255642","url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/products\/tim-gay-classics-series-paperback","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}