Young Earnest: The Romance of a Bad Start in Life

Chapter 37: Transcriber’s Note

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About This Book

An earnest young man struggles to overcome a troubled family origin while seeking romantic fulfillment across three phases of his life; each section centers on a different woman and charts his shifting fortunes. Early scenes show romantic idealism undermined by memories of a father's humiliation and domestic instability; subsequent episodes follow his adventures in the city, attempts to learn a trade and settle into adult responsibilities, and later domestic and spiritual reconciliation. Recurring themes include the tension between idealized love and social realities, class anxieties, the search for vocation, and the slow growth from vulnerable youth into a man negotiating marriage, work, and moral consolation.

Transcriber’s Note

This transcription is based on images posted by the Internet Archive scanned from a copy made available by the University of California:

archive.org/details/youngearnestroma00canniala

A 1915 edition published by T. Fisher Unwin was used a secondary source, especially to check the hyphenation of compound words printed at the end of a line in the primary source. Images of this edition are available at:

catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100199704

The following changes were noted:

The name “René” is almost always printed in the source text with the acute over the second “e”. The few cases where the name was printed as “Réne” have been changed for consistency.
p. 189: so that he could meet Casey.”—Deleted the closing quotation mark at the end of the paragraph.
p. 209: Thrigby’s changing, and things are queer all round.—Changed “Thrigby’s” to “Thrigsby’s”.