A Renegade in Springtime - Hardcover

Upward, Edward

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1900564238 ISBN 13: 9781900564236

Publisher: Enitharmon Pr, 2003

Synopsis

A legendary figure among the Auden generation’ of young writers in the 1930s, Edward Upward continuted writing into his late nineties. This new selection of his best short stories spans a literary career of almost eight decades, and was published to celebrate his centenary in 2003. 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.

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About the Author

Edward Upward (1903-2009) was the last of the "Auden generation." While at Cambridge, he created with Christopher Isherwood a series of stories about the fictitious village of Mortmere. After graduating 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. Enitharmon has been Upward's exclusive publisher from 1994, issuing a series of critically acclaimed stories as well as memoirs of Isherwood and Auden. Edward Upward died in 2009, at the age of 105 years.

Review

'We should be grateful that a devoted artist has lived so intensely through so much'Frank Kermode'A visionary of wonderful language and extraordinary power' Stephen Spender

Edition details

• Publisher: Enitharmon Pr
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 1900564238
• ISBN 13: 9781900564236
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 200
• Editor: Walker Alan