جنون بهاری آقای سرمن

At the age of 49, (/wiki/Schoolmaster) schoolmaster Sebastian Sermon has become vaguely dissatisfied with his life. Distant from his wealthy, ten-years-younger wife, Sybil, and teenage children, he works competently at his ill-paid job at a boys' (/wiki/Preparatory_school_(UK)) preparatory school . One spring afternoon, he reacts to a schoolboy prank by repeatedly hitting the perpetrator. The (/wiki/Head_teacher) headmaster hears the commotion and breaks things up. The headmaster is willing to hush things up, but Sermon defends himself, throws up his job and goes home. Rebuffed by his wife sexually (though she immediately regrets it), he takes a few belongings, and sets out, he knows not where. He takes a bus to (/wiki/London) London and then a train to the (/wiki/West_Country) West Country . He meets up with a junk/(/wiki/Antique_dealer) antique dealer , Tapper, on the road and helps him out with his trade (for which Sermon proves to have quite a knack), and goes with him to the fictitious upscale (/wiki/Devon) Devon (/wiki/Seaside_resort) seaside resort of Kingsbay.