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The Scenic Railway
Edward Upward
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Description for The Scenic Railway
paperback. Features five short stories that gives ordinary events a hallucinatory strangeness and renders dreams as if they were entirely ordinary, subject to the same ethical and political judgements appropriate to the daylight world. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 221 x 148 x 8. Weight in Grams: 148.
The rediscovery of Edward Upward's work excited enthusiastic comment among reviewers and readers when in 1994 Enitharmon published "The Mortmere Stories", "An Unmentionable Man" and a revised version of "Journey to the Border". The five short stories in this new volume, all written in recent years, reconfirm what Edward Mendelson in the "Times Literary Supplement" has described as Upward's 'unique perfected style ...that gives ordinary events a hallucinatory strangeness and renders dreams as if they were entirely ordinary, subject to the same ethical and political judgements appropriate to the daylight world.'A dying man finds affirmation in a career to which ... Read more
The rediscovery of Edward Upward's work excited enthusiastic comment among reviewers and readers when in 1994 Enitharmon published "The Mortmere Stories", "An Unmentionable Man" and a revised version of "Journey to the Border". The five short stories in this new volume, all written in recent years, reconfirm what Edward Mendelson in the "Times Literary Supplement" has described as Upward's 'unique perfected style ...that gives ordinary events a hallucinatory strangeness and renders dreams as if they were entirely ordinary, subject to the same ethical and political judgements appropriate to the daylight world.'A dying man finds affirmation in a career to which ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Enitharmon Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
96
Condition
New
Number of Pages
96
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781900564656
SKU
V9781900564656
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99-50
About Edward Upward
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 ... Read more
Reviews for The Scenic Railway
'As a painter of hallucinatory dreamscapes - a kind of prose Magritte - Upward at his finest still has no peer ... It is extraordinary to have strong new work from a figure first mythologised in 1938, in Isherwood's Lions and Shadows.' BOYD TONKIN, The Independent