# The Naked Civil Servant

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- Book: [The Naked Civil Servant](https://www.bookquiver.com/quentin-crisp/the-naked-civil-servant) ([The Naked Civil Servant.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/quentin-crisp/the-naked-civil-servant.md))
- Authors: [Quentin Crisp](https://www.bookquiver.com/quentin-crisp), [Michael Holroyd](https://www.bookquiver.com/michael-holroyd)
- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-01-4118-053-3
- Pages: 224
- Published: 1997-05-01
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

A comical and poignant memoir of a gay man living life as he pleased in the 1930s In 1931, gay liberation was not a movement—it was simply unthinkable. But in that year, Quentin Crisp made the courageous...