Character. A Novel of Father and Son

First English edition. Translated by E.M. Prince. Publisher’s original black cloth boards with gilt to spine. In Keith Cunningham designed dust jacket, which is browned in places and somewhat sunned to spine and has a few scratches to front panel. *** Originally published in The Netherlands in 1938 as Karakter. A brilliant study of ‘character building’: the novel follows the life and career of an illegitimate child, at every stage thwarted and secretly opposed by his father. A Dutch masterpiece of the 1930s, which was the basis for the film of the same name that won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1998.