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by Desmond Stewart

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Desmond Stewart

ISBN13:

978-0380016815

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0380016818

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English

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Avon Books (June 1, 1971)

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Fiction

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Genre Fiction

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Desmond Stewart, The Vampire of Mons (Harper and Row, 1976). Stewart's short and simple tale of an English prep school on the brink of WW2, and its new eastern European music teacher, is one of those books that could have been a minor classic.

Desmond Stewart, The Vampire of Mons (Harper and Row, 1976).

Desmond Stewart was a British journalist who worked for many years in Cairo. He wrote a number of books about Egyptian culture and history. His main novels are 'The Leopard in the Grass' (1953), 'The Unsuitable Englishman' (1955), trilogy 'The Sequence of Roles', 'The Round Mosaic'(1965), 'The Pyramid Inch' (1966), 'The Mamelukes' (1968). Desmond Stewart’s books.

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Robert Desmond Stewart (born 1949), known as Dessie Stewart, is a former unionist politician in Northern Ireland. Living in Portrush, Stewart joined the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), and first stood for Coleraine Borough Council for the party in the Skerries ward, at the 1985 Northern Ireland local elections. Although he was unsuccessful, he was narrowly elected at the following election, in 1989, and then topped the poll in 1993.

Desmond Stewart's first novel has a subterranean hook of evil and the tone is fastidious, the touch tapered, but it's no doubt much too civilized to attract the audience for the commercial bloodsucker.

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Desmond Stewart, The Vampire of Mons (Harper and Row, 1976)

Stewart's short and simple tale of an English prep school on the brink of WW2, and its new eastern European music teacher, is one of those books that could have been a minor classic. It's hard to tell what it is that would have changed it from what it is to what it could have been; a sharper editor, a writer of slightly different temperament, perhaps a scene that should have ben set differently or a point that should have been made more, or less, subtly. One way or the other, it's still not a bad book, and one worth killing a few hours with.

The book centers on Clive Swinburne, a seeming descendent of the devil of Victorian poetry who is quite common in everything; by coincidence, he arrives at Malthus, a prep school on the southern coast of England, with two other boys, both of whom are far more accomplished and popular than he. The three immediately meet the new music teacher, Dr. Vitaly, and from the outset there's a battle for the friendship of the other two new students between their peer and the music teacher. Over time, Clive, swayed by Vitaly's origins and under the influence of World War II-bred xenophobia, becomes convinced that Vitaly is a vampire, and starts to see the test of wills as a crusade to save the lives of his friends.

Stewart writes with a hand that's never too heavy, refreshing in a book so obviously about the dangers of hating those who are different than you. But, as I said, there's something, however minor, that seems missing from this otherwise fine book. I've no idea what, though. ** 1/2

Kerry

Perhaps following in the steps of William Golding and Richard Hughes, Desmond Stewart (1924-81) was a Scottish writer whose novels include this one where boarding-school students get caught up in anti-vampire hysteria in 1939-40. This is a fine book and it is a shame that it has been overlooked. Clive Swinburne was born in the same year as Stewart, and one is tempted to see this as autobiographical, but Clive has an older brother who is killed, while Stewart had a younger brother who outlived him, and certainly the boys at Haileybury did not go berserk like those at Malthus, so I wouldn't go too far with seeking for parallels between Clive and Stewart. Stewart lived much of his life in the Middle East and wrote extensively about it, including a biography of T. E. Lawrence. This is why Vitaly has an Egyptian wife.

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