The Dark Tower
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
A landmark of mid-twentieth-century British radio drama, The Dark Tower is Louis MacNeice's allegorical verse play, originally broadcast by the BBC in 1946 and subsequently published by Faber and Faber. The work chronicles the journey of Roland, the youngest son of a long line of warriors, compelled by duty, tradition, and an almost fatalistic sense of destiny to undertake a quest toward the forbidding Dark Tower — a quest from which no man has ever returned. Drawing on the Browning poem and Arthurian legend, MacNeice constructs a dreamlike, morally urgent narrative that pits individual will against the crushing weight of inherited obligation. MacNeice's genius lies in his ability to fuse the lyrical intensity of his poetry with the dramatic immediacy of the stage and airwaves, producing a work that resonates as both high literary achievement and popular art. The collection also includes several additional radio plays and pieces, showcasing the full range of his dramatic writing. With its haunting imagery, philosophical depth, and spare, musical language, The Dark Tower remains an essential text for anyone drawn to the intersection of myth, modernism, and the moral imagination — and its final, ambiguous note leaves the reader with questions that do not easily resolve.
Author: Louis Macneice
Format: Paperback
Published: 1947, Faber and Faber Limited
Genre: Plays
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
A landmark of mid-twentieth-century British radio drama, The Dark Tower is Louis MacNeice's allegorical verse play, originally broadcast by the BBC in 1946 and subsequently published by Faber and Faber. The work chronicles the journey of Roland, the youngest son of a long line of warriors, compelled by duty, tradition, and an almost fatalistic sense of destiny to undertake a quest toward the forbidding Dark Tower — a quest from which no man has ever returned. Drawing on the Browning poem and Arthurian legend, MacNeice constructs a dreamlike, morally urgent narrative that pits individual will against the crushing weight of inherited obligation. MacNeice's genius lies in his ability to fuse the lyrical intensity of his poetry with the dramatic immediacy of the stage and airwaves, producing a work that resonates as both high literary achievement and popular art. The collection also includes several additional radio plays and pieces, showcasing the full range of his dramatic writing. With its haunting imagery, philosophical depth, and spare, musical language, The Dark Tower remains an essential text for anyone drawn to the intersection of myth, modernism, and the moral imagination — and its final, ambiguous note leaves the reader with questions that do not easily resolve.