Morning Star (novel) - Plot Summary

Plot Summary

The plot revolves around the behaviour of a 12-year-old boy called Marius Stern, who is suspended from his boarding school for hitting another boy. Scientist Ptolemaeos Tunne, with the assistance of Jeremy Morrison, attempt to get to the bottom of Marius' behaviour. Marius has a crush on Jeremy and persuades him to share his bed, though nothing sexual happens.

Works of Simon Raven
Novels
Early Novels
  • An Inch of Fortune
  • The Feathers of Death
  • Brother Cain
  • Doctors Wear Scarlet
  • Close of Play
"Alms for Oblivion" Sequence
  • Fielding Gray
  • Sound the Retreat
  • The Sabre Squadron
  • The Rich Pay Late
  • Friends In Low Places
  • The Judas Boy
  • Places Where They Sing
  • Come Like Shadows
  • Bring Forth The Body
  • The Survivors
"The First-Born of Egypt" Sequence
  • Morning Star
  • The Face Of The Waters
  • Before The Cock Crow
  • New Seed For Old
  • Blood Of My Bone
  • In The Image Of God
  • The Troubadour
Other Novels
  • The Roses Of Picardie
  • September Castle
Essays, Reminiscences and Polemics
  • The English Gentleman
  • Boys Will Be Boys
  • The Fortunes of Fingel
  • Shadows on the Grass
  • The Old School
  • The Old Gang
  • Bird of Ill Omen
  • Is there anybody there? said the Traveller
Plays, Screenplays, TV and Film Adaptations
Plays
  • Royal Foundation
  • The Move Up-Country
  • The Doomsday School
  • The Scapegoat
  • Panther Larkin
  • The High King's Tomb
  • The Gaming Book
  • Sir Jocelyn, The Minister Would Like a Word
  • The Case of Father Brendan
Screenplays
  • A Soiree at Blossom's Hotel
  • A Pyre For Private James
  • Incense For The Damned
  • Sexton Blake and the Demon God
Other Writings
  • Chriseis
  • Places Where They Stay
  • The Islands of Sorrow
  • Remember Your Grammar and Other Haunted Stories
  • The World of Simon Raven

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