Adam's Breed

First edition (US)

Adam's Breed was a 1926 novel by the English writer Radclyffe Hall. On its publication it won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction and the Femina Vie Heureuse prize for best English novel.[1][2] It tells the story of a British-Italian waiter, a member of the Lost Generation disillusioned by life during and after World War I, who becomes a hermit.

  1. ^ "FEMINA VIE HEUREUSE PRIZE: ENGLISH COMMITTEE: Minutes and papers". National Archives (UK). Retrieved 3 July 2017.
  2. ^ Hamer, Emily (2016). Britannia's Glory: A History of Twentieth Century Lesbians. Bloomsbury. ISBN 9781474292801.