The Tom Barber Trilogy Volume I Uncle Stephen, the Retreat, and Young Tom 1 Valancourt Classics

Reid, Forrest

ISBN 10: 193455586X / ISBN 13: 9781934555866

Published by Valancourt Books, 2011

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• Title: The Tom Barber Trilogy Volume I Uncle Stephen, the Retreat, and Young Tom 1 Valancourt Classics
• Publisher: Valancourt Books
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 193455586X
• ISBN 13: 9781934555866
• Binding: HRD
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Forrest Reid (1875-1947), the Ulster novelist, spent his life in Belfast, in the north of Ireland, save for a period as an undergraduate at Christ's College, Cambridge, where he received a B.A. in 1908. He numbered among his many friends and acquaintances George William Russell (A. E.), E. M. Forster, Edmund Gosse, C. S. Lewis, and Walter de le Mare, as well as various Uranians such as Theo Bartholomew, Osbert Burdett, and Mark André Raffalovich.

Despite his sixteen novels, his two autobiographies, and a range of other works, despite being a founding member of the Irish Academy of Letters and an honorary Doctor of Letters of Queen's University in Belfast, despite his novel Young Tom being awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, Forrest Reid closely borders both oblivion and canonicity. However, this author, who has been aptly dubbed the "Arch-Priest of a Minor Cult," deserves reconsideration and perhaps a place in the pantheon of English letters.

The Tom Barber Trilogy - composed of the very distinct novels Uncle Stephen (1931), The Retreat; or, The Machinations of Henry (1936), and Young Tom; or, Very Mixed Company (1944) - is Forrest Reid's magnum opus. The present scholarly edition presents those three novels as clean texts (in Volume I), followed by a study of Forrest Reid and explanatory notes for the trilogy (in Volume II).