Better Angel
1933 book by Forman Brown / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Better Angel is a novel by Forman Brown first published in 1933 under the pseudonym Richard Meeker. It was republished as Torment in 1951. It is an early novel which describes a gay lifestyle without condemning it.[1] Christopher Carey called it "the first homosexual novel with a truly happy ending".[2]
The novel's title references Shakespeare's Sonnet 144: "the better angel is a man right fair",[3] a poem which has been read as having a homosexual subtext.