In Youth Is Pleasure: & I Left My Grandfather's House

First published in 1945, In Youth Is Pleasure is a beautiful and unassuming coming-of-age novel by the English writer and painter Denton Welch (1915–48). Painfully sensitive and sad Orville Pym is 15 years old, and this novel recounts the summer holiday after his first miserable year at private school—but as in all of Welch’s work, what is most important are the details of his characters’ surroundings. Welch is a Proustian...