Bertram Cope's Year
Henry Blake Fuller
Read by James K. White
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) (8 hr 48 min)
Chapters
Cope at a College Tea | 20:19 | Read by James K. White |
Cope Makes a Sunday Afternoon Call | 12:59 | Read by James K. White |
Cope Is "Entertained" | 12:01 | Read by James K. White |
Cope Is Considered | 15:53 | Read by James K. White |
Cope Is Considered Further | 15:21 | Read by James K. White |
Cope Dines--And Tells About It | 17:17 | Read by James K. White |
Cope Under Scrutiny | 14:54 | Read by James K. White |
Cope Undertakes An Excursion | 13:37 | Read by James K. White |
Cope On The Edge Of Things | 14:26 | Read by James K. White |
Cope At His House Party | 15:30 | Read by James K. White |
Cope Enlivens The Country | 15:58 | Read by James K. White |
Cope Amidst Cross-Purposes | 14:58 | Read by James K. White |
Cope Dines Again--And Stays After | 22:20 | Read by James K. White |
Cope Makes An Evasion | 18:26 | Read by James K. White |
Cope Entertains Several Ladies | 19:56 | Read by James K. White |
Cope Goes A-Sailing | 17:32 | Read by James K. White |
Cope Among Cross-Currents | 18:21 | Read by James K. White |
Cope At The Call Of Duty | 23:31 | Read by James K. White |
Cope Finds Himself Committed | 16:13 | Read by James K. White |
Cope Has A Distressful Christmas | 18:50 | Read by James K. White |
Cope, Safeguarded, Calls Again | 19:19 | Read by James K. White |
Cope Shall Be Rescued | 14:10 | Read by James K. White |
Cope Regains His Freedom | 12:37 | Read by James K. White |
Cope In Danger Anew | 16:29 | Read by James K. White |
Cope In Double Danger | 12:34 | Read by James K. White |
Cope As A Go-Between | 16:26 | Read by James K. White |
Cope Escapes A Snare | 14:42 | Read by James K. White |
Cope Absent From A Wedding | 13:23 | Read by James K. White |
Cope Again In The Country | 14:18 | Read by James K. White |
Cope As A Hero | 13:14 | Read by James K. White |
Cope Gets New Light On His Chum | 13:21 | Read by James K. White |
Cope Takes His Degree | 12:50 | Read by James K. White |
Cope In A Final View | 17:05 | Read by James K. White |
Reviews
True
Mark Gordon
I was a young graduate and doctoral professor, both females and males were after me. It reads true
marilynjayelewis
Wonderfully read and an unexpected gem.