In The Thirties
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Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: No dust jacket - paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner.
A landmark work of British political fiction, In the Thirties is the first volume of Edward Upward's autobiographical trilogy, The Spiral Ascent, set against the turbulent backdrop of pre-war Europe. The novel chronicles the intellectual and ideological journey of Alan Sebrill, a young schoolteacher torn between his commitment to Marxism and his aspirations as a poet. Upward presents with unflinching honesty the tensions between personal artistic ambition and collective political duty that defined a generation of left-wing British intellectuals in the 1930s. Written with quiet intensity and psychological depth, the narrative captures the moral seriousness and ideological fervour of an era shadowed by the rise of fascism, the Spanish Civil War, and the looming catastrophe of the Second World War. A largely neglected masterpiece, In the Thirties stands as one of the most authentic and searching accounts of committed political life in twentieth-century English literature.
Author: Edward Upward
Format: Paperback
Published: 1962, Heinemann
Genre: Historical fiction
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: No dust jacket - paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner.
A landmark work of British political fiction, In the Thirties is the first volume of Edward Upward's autobiographical trilogy, The Spiral Ascent, set against the turbulent backdrop of pre-war Europe. The novel chronicles the intellectual and ideological journey of Alan Sebrill, a young schoolteacher torn between his commitment to Marxism and his aspirations as a poet. Upward presents with unflinching honesty the tensions between personal artistic ambition and collective political duty that defined a generation of left-wing British intellectuals in the 1930s. Written with quiet intensity and psychological depth, the narrative captures the moral seriousness and ideological fervour of an era shadowed by the rise of fascism, the Spanish Civil War, and the looming catastrophe of the Second World War. A largely neglected masterpiece, In the Thirties stands as one of the most authentic and searching accounts of committed political life in twentieth-century English literature.