First published in 1924, "C" is arguably Maurice Baring's most famous book and best novel. In it, Baring looks back affectionately, to what he calls, the 'golden swan-song of European life before the First World War', drawing a picture of exclusive family life clouded only by the distant rumblings of the Boer War. Against this pageant of an age, Baring presents Caryl Bramsley (the 'C' of the title), a young man of great promise, of culture but not achievement, an aspiring writer, whose life is a tragi-comic 'conflict of values'.
- ISBN10 0571247466
- ISBN13 9780571247462
- Publish Date 27 November 2008 (first published 22 May 1986)
- Publish Status Transferred
- Out of Print 26 June 2014
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Faber & Faber
- Format Paperback (UK Trade)
- Pages 784
- Language English