Bertram Cope's Year


Read by James K. White

(3.9 stars; 7 reviews)

This novel was perhaps the most daring and affirmative LGBT literature of the first two decades of the 20th century in America. In this story, Bertram Cope is a young college instructor, about twenty-four years old ("certainly not a day over twenty-five"), who is pursued by men and women, both younger and older than himself. In writing this novel, Fuller had to carefully craft his plot schemes so as not to offend the sensibilities of publishers. As a result, today's reader is left somewhat, but not entirely, confused about the precise feelings that characters develop for one another by the end of the book. Nevertheless, no publishing house would touch it, which ultimately required that Fuller go the self-publishing route.

Bertram Cope's Year was the first novel by an established American writer that dealt exclusively with the subject of homosexuality. Although it did not achieve the notariety it deserved at the time, it set the tone for the increasingly open discussion of gay themes in literary form. (Introduction by James K. White) (8 hr 48 min)

Chapters

Cope at a College Tea 20:19 Read by James K. White
Cope Makes a Sunday Afternoon Call 12:59 Read by James K. White
Cope Is "Entertained" 12:01 Read by James K. White
Cope Is Considered 15:53 Read by James K. White
Cope Is Considered Further 15:21 Read by James K. White
Cope Dines--And Tells About It 17:17 Read by James K. White
Cope Under Scrutiny 14:54 Read by James K. White
Cope Undertakes An Excursion 13:37 Read by James K. White
Cope On The Edge Of Things 14:26 Read by James K. White
Cope At His House Party 15:30 Read by James K. White
Cope Enlivens The Country 15:58 Read by James K. White
Cope Amidst Cross-Purposes 14:58 Read by James K. White
Cope Dines Again--And Stays After 22:20 Read by James K. White
Cope Makes An Evasion 18:26 Read by James K. White
Cope Entertains Several Ladies 19:56 Read by James K. White
Cope Goes A-Sailing 17:32 Read by James K. White
Cope Among Cross-Currents 18:21 Read by James K. White
Cope At The Call Of Duty 23:31 Read by James K. White
Cope Finds Himself Committed 16:13 Read by James K. White
Cope Has A Distressful Christmas 18:50 Read by James K. White
Cope, Safeguarded, Calls Again 19:19 Read by James K. White
Cope Shall Be Rescued 14:10 Read by James K. White
Cope Regains His Freedom 12:37 Read by James K. White
Cope In Danger Anew 16:29 Read by James K. White
Cope In Double Danger 12:34 Read by James K. White
Cope As A Go-Between 16:26 Read by James K. White
Cope Escapes A Snare 14:42 Read by James K. White
Cope Absent From A Wedding 13:23 Read by James K. White
Cope Again In The Country 14:18 Read by James K. White
Cope As A Hero 13:14 Read by James K. White
Cope Gets New Light On His Chum 13:21 Read by James K. White
Cope Takes His Degree 12:50 Read by James K. White
Cope In A Final View 17:05 Read by James K. White

Reviews

True


(5 stars)

I was a young graduate and doctoral professor, both females and males were after me. It reads true


(5 stars)

Wonderfully read and an unexpected gem.