![]() ![]() The conscientious objector, Andrew Raynes, is a young Quaker, as yet unaware of his own sexuality, who is working as an orderly at the military hospital where Laurie is being treated. The story's protagonist, Laurie (Laurence) 'Spud' Odell, is a young soldier wounded at Dunkirk who must decide if his affections lie with a younger conscientious objector working at his hospital or a naval officer whom he had 'worshiped' when they had both been pupils at an all-boys boarding school and with whom he has suddenly been reconnected. ![]() This romance novel is primarily set in 1940 during the immediate post-Dunkirk period of World War II at a military hospital in England during nightly bomb raids and blackouts. The Charioteer is significant because it features a prominent – and positive – gay theme at an early date and quickly became a bestseller – particularly within the gay community. Renault's US publisher (Morrow) refused to publish it until 1959 due to its generally positive portrayal of homosexuality. ![]() The Charioteer is a war novel by Mary Renault first published in London in 1953. ![]()
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