Imaginary Toys (1961) marked the literary debut of the then 26-year-old Julian Mitchell, who would eventually set aside his prizewinning career as a novelist and achieve wider renown as a dramatist, most famously with
Another Country (1981).
Imaginary Toys is a novel of Oxford after World War Two, where class consciousness has become newly acute, and a quartet of narrators wrestle with their studies and their more personal difficulties - among the four a coalminer's son and the daughter of a solid bourgeois family, who fall in love to the discomfort of their respective friends.
In the first of a sequence of reflective, autobiographical new introductions composed especially for Faber Finds' reissues of his early novels, Julian Mitchell recalls the atmosphere of mid-1950s Oxford, and the path he took to a literary vocation.
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- Cover
- Landing Page
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Preface to the 2013 Edition
- 1: Charles Frederick Hammond
- 2: The Notebook of Nicholas Sharpe
- 3: Jack Evans to Elaine Cole, undated
- 4: Charles Frederick Hammond
- 5: Elaine in the Library
- 6: The Notebook of Nicholas Sharpe
- 7: Charles Frederick Hammond
- 8: Jack Evans to Elaine Cole, undated
- 9: The Notebook of Nicholas Sharpe
- 10: Charles Frederick Hammond
- 11: Elaine in Church
- 12: The Notebook of Nicholas Sharpe
- 13: Charles Frederick Hammond
- 14: Jack Evans to Elaine Cole, undated
- 15: Charles Frederick Hammond
- 16: The Notebook of Nicholas Sharpe
- 17: Elaine on the London Train
- 18: Charles Frederick Hammond
- Epilogue
- Copyright
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