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Mortmere Stories by Edward Upward and Christopher Isherwood (1994, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherEnitharmon Press

ISBN-101870612698

ISBN-139781870612692

eBay Product ID (ePID)987408

Product Key Features

Book TitleMortmere Stories

Number of Pages214 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicGeneral, Literary

Publication Year1994

IllustratorCrowley, Graham, Yes

GenreFiction

AuthorEdward Upward, Christopher Isherwood

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.6 in

Item Weight11.2 Oz

Item Length8.5 in

Item Width5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN95-167631

TitleLeadingThe

Dewey Edition20

Dewey Decimal823/.912

SynopsisAs Cambridge undergraduates in the mid-1920s, Christopher Isherwood and his old schoolfriend Edward Upward engaged in a literary attack on the dons and the 'poshocracy' - the fashionable and well-heeled students - by creating the bizarre fictional world of Mortmere, a village inhabited by surreal characters modelled on their Cambridge friends and acquaintances. The rector, Casmir Welken, resembles a 'diseased goat' and breeds angels in the church belfry; his sidekick Ronald Gunball is a dipsomaniac and an unashamed vulgarian; Sergeant Claptree, assisted by Ensign Battersea, keeps the Skull and Trumpet Inn; the mannish Miss Belmare, domineering and well starched, is sister to the squire, and Gustave Shreeve is headmaster of Frisbald College for boys. There are engrossing accounts of the writing of the Mortmere stories in Isherwood's Lions and Shadows and in Upward's No Home but the Struggle, but the stories have never before been published - with the one exception of Upward's The Railway Accident. Dr Katherine Bucknell, the editor of W. H. Auden's Juvenilia: Poems 1922-28 (Princeton University Press/Faber and Faber, 1994) and Isherwood's journals, has written a fascinating introduction to the stories, and Graham Crowley's drawings provide a lively accompaniment to them.

LC Classification NumberPR6017.S5M67 1994