num_pages: 464
description: WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY DAVID BRADSHAWThe dilettantes who frequent Lady Tantamount's society parties are determined to push forward the moral frontiers of the age. Marjorie has left her family to live with Walter; Walter is in love with the luscious but cold-hearted Lucy; Maurice deflowers young girls for the sake of entertainment, while the withdrawn writer, Philip, finds himself drawn to the dangerous political charm of Everard. As they all engage in dazzling and witty conversation, the din of the age - its ideas and idiocies - grows deafening.
language: English
title: Point Counter Point
titlecomplete: Point Counter Point
characters: Maurice Spandrell, Denis Burlap, Beatrice Gilray, Molly d'Exergillod, Walter Bidlake, John Bidlake, Hilda Tantamount, Lucy Tantamount, Everard Webley, Elinor Bidlake, Mark Rampion, Edward Tantamount, Sidney Quarles, Philip Quarles, Mary Rampion, Frank Illidge, Marjorie Carling
genres: Classics, British Literature, Philosophy, English Literature, Modern Classics, Novels, Classic Literature, 20th Century, Literature, Fiction
ratings_count: 11530
places: United Kingdom
publisher: Dalkey Archive Press