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The book is about how a history teacher in a high school wants to show and explain to his students how easy it is to join a group, and give away all your rights to be independent. It all started with a movie about the Second World War. The students asked the teacher, Ben Ross after seeing and upsetting movie about Nazis) how come the Germans didn’t stop the Nazis if only 10% of the population were Nazis? Ben couldn’t answer that himself so in the evening he was absorbed in a pile of books, seeking for the answer. When his wife and business associate Christy came home and saw her husband surrounded by the books, she sighed and thought to herself ”hope he isn’t going to be as absorbed in all this as he has the ability to be when he is determined to find out about something”.

Wednesaday, yetim olarak büyüdü; pis bir fıçıda yaşıyor. Daha önce sirke hiç gitmedi. Zaten Oscuro Sirki de diğer sirklere benzemiyor. Hayvanların arasında Hiç adında, kafese konulmuş bir yaratık var; palyaçolar gizli işler peşinde... Kanatlı, garip, küçük bir kız gösteri sırasında kuleden düşünce Miles'in hayatı sonsuza dek değişiyor. Jon Berkeley'in bu şaşırtıcı ilk romanı, eşsiz bir coğrafyada geçen, tehlikeler, güzellikler ve elbette kahkahalarla dolu zengin bir serüven!

'As a man loved a woman, that was how I loved... It was good, good, good...' Stephen is an ideal child of aristocratic parents - a fencer, a horse rider and a keen scholar. Stephen grows to be a war hero, a bestselling writer and a loyal, protective lover. But Stephen is a woman, and her lovers are women. As her ambitions drive her, and society confines her, Stephen is forced into desperate actions. The Well of Loneliness was banned for obscenity when published in 1928. It became an international bestseller, and for decades was the single most famous lesbian novel. It has influenced how love between women is understood, for the twentieth century and beyond..