The Scenic Railway

by Upward, Edward

• ISBN13: 9781900564656
• ISBN10: 1900564653
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-10-01
• Publisher: Enitharmon Press

Summary

A dying man finds affirmation in a career to which he had unsuccessfully given his life, A retired and cautious man finally has the courage to ask the woman he loves if she will come to live with him, A dying woman's dreams of revolutionary events se

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.

Table of Contents

THE SCENIC RAILWAY	9	(21)
INVESTIGATION AFTER MIDNIGHT	30	(10)
PEOPLE HATE ME	40	(21)
THE WORLD REVOLUTION	61	(16)
EMILY AND OSWIN	77