Edward Upward Bibliography

by Walker, Alan; Kermode, Frank

• ISBN13: 9781900564328
• ISBN10: 1900564327
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-02-01
• Publisher: Enitharmon Press

Summary

This comprehensive bibliography lists Edward Upward's publications over an eighty year period. In his preface, Professor Sir Frank Kermode refers to Upward's longevity and distinction as a novelist and short story writer, and describes the bibliography as 'an account of a virtually unique achievement … Upward has been for so long a major, though neglected, figure in English literature, it is appropriate that he should now be made the subject of a bibliography of the kind normally provided for writers of exceptional importance.' The text lists books by Upward; contributions to books, pamphlets, journals and periodicals; interviews; broadcasts; manuscript collections; critical writings about him; appendices and a select bibliography.

Author Biography

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.