You might also like

More about Private Road

• Book details
• Synopsis
• Trending among others

You get 55 loyalty points

Book synopsis

In this, the companion volume to his earlier autobiographical "Apostate" (1926), Forrest Reid continues his 'chronicle of a prolonged personal adventure'. "Private Road" (first published in 1940) offers Reid's descriptions of his early writing efforts; a youthful correspondence with Henry James that began with promise yet ended disappointingly ('the Master was not pleased...'); his Cambridge encounters with such luminaries as Ronald Firbank and W.B. Yeats; the production and reception of his first published works; and his valued friendships with E.M. Forster and Walter de la Mare. The closing stages of the book reflect Reid's unique sense of the spiritual: a compelling meditation on our 'second life' in a place Reid calls 'dreamland', wherein a 'shadowy agent' conjures an atmosphere that can hold powerful inspirational properties for the artist. Faber Finds is devoted to restoring to readers a wealth of lost/neglected classics and authors of distinction. The range embraces fiction, non-fiction, the arts and children's books.

Book details

Book category Books in English Biography & True Stories Biography: general Biography: literary

• Full title: Private Road
• Author: Forrest Reid
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 244
• EAN: 9780571283682
• ISBN: 0571283683
• ID: 01204769
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Weight: 314 g
• Dimensions: 217 × 141 × 21 mm
• Date of publishing: 17. November 2011

Trending among others

---

---

---