The Life and Passion of Aleck Maury: A Novel

The Life and Passion of Aleck Maury appears to be a sports autobiography. (In fact, it is a "retelling" of Gordon's father's life.) Aleck Maury, a classicist and teacher by trade, as well as a husband and father, enjoys nothing more than fishing and hunting.

“Delight…I had lived by it for sixty years and now it was gone and might never come again…”

The novel, originally published in 1934 as Aleck Maury, Sportsman, has been retitled for this new version to reflect Caroline Gordon's original aim. The novel's perceptive power is such that, in the words of Robert Penn Warren, “even for a reader who is no sportsman the author has managed to convey an almost unflagging excitement and a sense of participation in that delight by which Aleck Maury lives.”