Morning Star (Raven novel)

Morning Star
First edition Morning Star book cover
Author	Simon Raven
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Series	First Born of Egypt
Genre	Novel
Publisher	Frederick Muller
Publication date	21 June 1984
Media type	Hardback and paperback
Pages	188 pp (hardback edition)
ISBN	0-85634-138-X (hardback edition)
OCLC	16277397
Dewey Decimal	823/.914 20
LC Class	PR6068.A9 M67 1984

Morning Star is Volume I of the novel sequence First Born of Egypt by Simon Raven, published in 1984.

Set in 1977, the novel features a large cast of upper-class characters and continues the story from Raven’s Alms for Oblivion novel sequence.

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.

Simon Raven

Novels

Early novels	An Inch of Fortune (1951) The Feathers of Death (1959) Brother Cain (1959) Doctors Wear Scarlet (1960) Close of Play (1962)

Alms for Oblivion series	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 series	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 (1980) September Castle (1984)

Essays, reminiscences and polemics

The English Gentleman (1961)
Boys Will Be Boys (1963)
The Fortunes of Fingel (1976)
Shadows on the Grass (1982)
The Old School (1986)
The Old Gang (1988)
Bird of Ill Omen (1989)
Is there anybody there? said the Traveller (1990)

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

Adaptations

A Soiree at Blossom's Hotel
A Pyre for Private James
Incense for the Damned
Sexton Blake and the Demon God

Other writings

Chriseis (1960)
Places Where They Stay (1970)
The Islands of Sorrow (1994)
Remember Your Grammar and Other Haunted Stories (1997)
The World of Simon Raven (2002)

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