A RENEGADE IN SPRINGTIME: SELECTED SHORT STORIES. (SIGNED)

UPWARD, Edward, Alan Walker (Edits).

ISBN 10: 1900564238 / ISBN 13: 9781900564236

Edité par Enitharmon Press, London, 2003

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8vo. pp 199. Original publisher's red cloth, lettered gilt on spine. Signed presentation from the author on the title page, 'For Joan and Dannie, with love from Edward Upward 2003'. Presentation to Daniel Abse, CBE, FRSL (1923 2014) well respected Welsh and Jewish poet who worked as a doctor much of his life and to his wife Joan. Edward Upward was 100 years old when he signed this book. ISBN: 1900564238 Fine in fine dust jacket. N° de réf. du vendeur C21353

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Titre : A RENEGADE IN SPRINGTIME: SELECTED SHORT ...

Éditeur : Enitharmon Press, London

Date d'édition : 2003

Reliure : Couverture rigide

Etat de la jaquette : Jaquette

Signé : Signé par l'auteur

Edition : Edition originale

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Synopsis :

A legendary figure among the 'Auden generation' of young writers in the 1930s, Edward Upward is still writing to this day. This new selection of his best short stories spans a literary career of almost eight decades, and is being published to celebrate his centenary. Beginning in 1928 with the fantastical world of Mortmere in "The Railway Accident", the stories continue through the era of political engagement in the Thirties to the reflective and poignant studies of old age that have underpinned his revival in the past decade. Together they represent a lifetime of achievement in modern literature.'But why should he risk upsetting his parents by saying any of these things? Their happiness at having him here with them again was so evident. And why should he risk disturbing his own happy drowsiness which was increasing in him every moment as he sat here? 'Home is a place where I am well thought of,' he said to himself as he sank into the comfort of his armchair, as he slid more deeply, more and more deeply, downwards into its safety' - from "The Scenic Railway".

À propos de l?auteur:

Edward Upward was born in 1903. While at Cambridge he created with Christopher Isherwood a series of stories about the fictitious village of Mortmere. After graduating from Cambridge he was a private tutor and for thirty years a schoolmaster, until his retirement in 1961. His first novel, Journey to the Border, was published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press in 1938 and between 1962 and 1977 Heinemann published his trilogy The Spiral Ascent. Upward's The Railway Accident and Other Stories was a Penguin Classic. Since 1994 Enitharmon has been his exclusive publisher, issuing a series of critically acclaimed stories as well as memoirs of Isherwood and Auden.