Journey To The Frontier: Julian Bell & John Cornford: Their Lives And The 1930S
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Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - no tears. Page Condition: Yellowed. Markings: No markings. Binding condition: Binding intact.
Journey to the Frontier chronicles the parallel lives of Julian Bell and John Cornford, two brilliant young Englishmen whose idealism and intellectual fire led them both to the battlefields of the Spanish Civil War, where each died before reaching thirty. Peter Stansky and William Abrahams reconstruct their worlds with meticulous precision — the Cambridge drawing rooms, the Bloomsbury connections, the communist cells, and the urgent political fever of the 1930s — painting a portrait of a generation that believed art and action were inseparable. Written with the authority of seasoned historians and the sensitivity of biographers attuned to human complexity, this dual biography stands as one of the most illuminating accounts of the left-wing intellectual culture that defined interwar Britain. Stansky and Abrahams argue that Bell and Cornford were not merely casualties of ideology, but emblems of a moment when poetry, politics, and sacrifice converged with devastating consequence — leaving the reader to wonder what literature and history lost when the frontier claimed them both.
Author: Peter Stansky & William Abrahams
Format: Hardback
Published: 1966, Constable London
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - no tears. Page Condition: Yellowed. Markings: No markings. Binding condition: Binding intact.
Journey to the Frontier chronicles the parallel lives of Julian Bell and John Cornford, two brilliant young Englishmen whose idealism and intellectual fire led them both to the battlefields of the Spanish Civil War, where each died before reaching thirty. Peter Stansky and William Abrahams reconstruct their worlds with meticulous precision — the Cambridge drawing rooms, the Bloomsbury connections, the communist cells, and the urgent political fever of the 1930s — painting a portrait of a generation that believed art and action were inseparable. Written with the authority of seasoned historians and the sensitivity of biographers attuned to human complexity, this dual biography stands as one of the most illuminating accounts of the left-wing intellectual culture that defined interwar Britain. Stansky and Abrahams argue that Bell and Cornford were not merely casualties of ideology, but emblems of a moment when poetry, politics, and sacrifice converged with devastating consequence — leaving the reader to wonder what literature and history lost when the frontier claimed them both.