The Face of Innocence by William Sansom

The Face of Innocence

by William Sansom

The Reprint Society, 1954, brown colour dipped top fore-edge, hardcover, dust-jacket

Very Good Condition, minor edge and shelf wear, minor rubbing to edges and corners, dust-jacket a little edge and shelf wear with a little rubbing to edges and corners, small tears to top of spine, minor markings (see photographs)

"There are people who, not content with their circumstances or with their equipment for facing life, have recourse to fantasy.  In insensitive natures this takes the form of shooting a line; a man wears decorations to which he is not entitled, a woman says that she can't think how it is, but children and animals always seek her out, and her many friends seem to find her indispensable.
For all such people, in the advanced or elementary state, there is only one cure.  Either by way of love and patience, or sharply and clinically, they must in each separate instance be confronted with the fact and have the falsehood demolished.  The computation can be dangerous, and will in any case rouse violent resentment: but it is their only hope.
Eve, the heroine of The Face of Innocence, could still tell fact from fantasy, but was far gone.  In the first chapters she is engaged to Harry, a stupid but by no means imperceptive man whose unshaken adoration slowly works towards her cure."