Journey to the Border (Edward Upward Series) [Paperback]

Edward Upward (Author)

Book Description

Series: Edward Upward Series | Publication Date: October 17, 1995

This, one of the most remarkable of English novels of the 1930s, first published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, has long been out of print. Now Upward, at age ninety, has carefully revised his acclaimed and partly autobiographical work. As a psychological study it is intense; as a social document it gives insight into the political developments occurring prior to World War II; and as prose it is refreshing and extraordinarily effective. As Malcolm Muggeridge observed, ""Upward's technique is like Kafka's. There is the same overlapping of objective and subjective reality, producing a weird yet poignant impression of the pathos of human life. Journey to the Border is often brilliant, and most brilliant when it is hallucinatory."" - Times Literary Supplement.

Editorial Reviews

Review

'Journey to the Border contains some of the most beautiful prose poems of the century.' Stephen Spender'Journey to the Border is often brilliant, and most brilliant when it is hallucinatory.' Times Literary Supplemen

About the Author

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.

Product Details

• Paperback: 135 pages
• Publisher: Enitharmon Pr (October 17, 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1870612590
• ISBN-13: 978-1870612593
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.4 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,388,150 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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