<div><B>Welch&rsquo;s piercing, intimate, slightly fictionalized, and posthumously published work deals with the bicycle accident that would cause his death thirteen years later </B><BR /><BR /> At age twenty, Denton Welch was bicycling from London, where he was studying art, to Surrey to pay a visit to his aunt and uncle when he was struck by a car. The next thing he knew, he was lying on his back, unable to move, gazing up at the sky, scarcely aware of anything but the sensation of grass against the back of his neck and the sound of a voice asking him questions. As he swam in and out of consciousness, nurses, doctors, and relatives came and went, days passed, and he remained bedridden in a hospital ward.<BR />  <BR /> In his characteristic unsparing prose, Welch takes readers through every step of his painful journey toward a partial recovery. Full of unflinching self-scrutiny, <I>A Voice Through a Cloud</I> is an unforgettable work of pain and healing.</div>

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<div><B>A moving coming-of-age novel based on the author&rsquo;s adolescent experiences in China </B><BR /><BR /> At sixteen, Denton Welch was attending school in Derbyshire, England. One morning, instead of taking the train to school, he caught a bus traveling in the opposite direction with no real plan except to start a new adventure. Although he reluctantly returned to school at his family&rsquo;s bidding, he soon received a letter postmarked from Shanghai&mdash;a letter from his father suggesting that Denton join him China.<BR />  <BR /> So began a momentous journey that would shape young Denton Welch&rsquo;s life. Leaving behind his companions at school as well as the life he had known, he traveled across the globe to China, where he was seized with a sense of wonder completely new to him. It was there, so far from his roots, that young Denton began to explore his ambitions, aspirations, and secret desires.<BR />  <BR /> Written with an artist&rsquo;s keen sensibility for observation and inspired by J. R. Ackerley&rsquo;s <I>Hindoo Holiday</I>, <I>Maiden Voyage </I>is an unforgettable tale of growing up and discovering oneself.</div>

Maiden Voyage

<div><B>Keenly observed autobiographical fiction and journal entries from acclaimed writer Denton Welch, featuring an introduction by William S.  Burroughs</B><BR /><BR /> &ldquo;In Youth Is Pleasure&rdquo; recounts the summer vacation of Orvil Pym&mdash;a sensitive, withdrawn, and deeply unhappy boy of fifteen. Following a trying year at public school, Orvil spends the summer with his father and two older brothers. The quotidian events of a seemingly ordinary summer are rendered dazzling by the intensity of adolescence and Welch&rsquo;s gift for human observation. First published in 1945, &ldquo;In Youth Is Pleasure&rdquo; is based closely on Welch&rsquo;s own adolescent experiences of solitude and introspection.<BR />  <BR /> This volume also includes &ldquo;I Left My Grandfather&rsquo;s House,&rdquo; an unforgettable account of a walking tour through the British countryside. These two works feature Welch at his autobiographical best.</div>

In Youth Is Pleasure

<div><B>The second volume of Denton Welch&rsquo;s complete collected short works</B><BR /><BR /> English novelist Denton Welch originally trained as a visual artist, and a painterly perspicacity and talent for human observation are evident in his writing. His close attention to detail renders even the most seemingly mundane trivialities memorable and important. Though he died at the young age of thirty-three, Welch was quite prolific, doing most of his writing while bedridden after a bicycling accident that left him seriously injured. He produced three novels, over seventy-five short stories, and a journal that ran over two hundred fifty thousand words long.<BR />  <BR /> This volume includes &ldquo;Man in a Garden,&rdquo; a brief prose piece that recounts the sketching of a friend in a garden, and the poignant &ldquo;Memories of a Vanished Period,&rdquo; which takes place at a wedding. Also included is a selection of stories that depart somewhat from Welch&rsquo;s standard autobiographical style, venturing into the territory of fiction.</div>

Where Nothing Sleeps Volume Two

<div><B>The first volume of Denton Welch&rsquo;s complete collected short works</B><BR /><BR /> English novelist Denton Welch originally trained as a visual artist, and a painterly perspicacity and talent for human observation are evident in his writing. His close attention to detail renders even the most seemingly mundane trivialities memorable and important. Though he died at the young age of thirty-three, Welch was quite prolific, doing most of his writing while bedridden after a bicycling accident that left him seriously injured. He produced three novels, over seventy-five short stories, and a journal that ran over two hundred fifty thousand words long.<BR />  <BR /> Included in this volume are autobiographical works inspired by Welch&rsquo;s youth in China, such as &ldquo;I Can Remember&rdquo; and &ldquo;The Coffin on the Hill.&rdquo; &ldquo;I First Began to Write&rdquo; is a brief vignette detailing Welch&rsquo;s early efforts as an author. These stories, fragments, and poems reveal a writer gifted with superb powers of description.</div>

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A Voice Through a Cloud

Maiden Voyage

In Youth Is Pleasure

Where Nothing Sleeps Volume Two

Where Nothing Sleeps Volume One

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In Youth Is Pleasure

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