The Life and Passion of Aleck Maury Godden and the pure privilege of

and the pure privilege of innocence

the child of God… (Edoardo Aldo Cerrato

when looked upon with the ‘simple eye’ of the Gospel

notes in the Introduction: “To reread these lectures some eighty years after their subsequent publication is to measure how much the world has changed since then

First published in 1925

The Life and Passion of Aleck Maury Godden and the pure privilege ofBy Caroline Gordon The Life and Passion of Aleck Maury is, on the surface, a sportsmans autobiography. (In fact, it is a retelling of the life of Gordons own father.) A classicist and teacher by profession, as well as a husband and father, Aleck Maury finds delight in nothing so much as he does in fishing and hunting. DelightI had lived by it for sixty years and now it was gone and might never come again Originally published in 1934 as Aleck Maury,