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'Utterly Immoral'. A true and fascinating story about the First World War and beyond with Simon Keable Elliot

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We welcome Simon Keable Elliott to the Sussex Branch of The Western Front Association. When Robert Keable’s First World War novel Simon Called Peter was published, critics called it ‘offensive’, ‘a libel’ and reeking of ‘drink and lust’. Scott Fitzgerald suggested it was ‘utterly immoral’ and referenced it in The Great Gatsby. In Utterly Immoral,…


‘Robert Keable, utterly immoral WW1 chaplain?’

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When Robert Keable’s First World War novel ‘Simon Called Peter’ was published, critics called it ‘offensive’, ‘a libel’ and reeking of ‘drink and lust’. Despite this the novel became a huge international best-seller, a Broadway play, and the sequel, a Hollywood movie, making its author a celebrity. What critics did not know was that the nov…