The Man Who Went Back

by Warwick Deeping

First U.S. Edition bound in decorated green cloth. Book is VG+ with a few dust spots to the cloth. Dj has tiny frays at the spine tips & corners. Time Travel Novel.

323 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1940

About the author

George Warwick Deeping was a prolific novelist and short story writer, who is best known for his 1925 novel "Sorrell and Son."

Deeping was educated at Merchant Taylors' School, then Trinity College, Cambridge to study medicine and science, and then to Middlesex Hospital to finish his medical training. During the First World War, he served in the Royal Army Medical Corps. He later gave up his job as a doctor to become a full-time writer.

Deeping's early work was primarily historical romances. His later novels can be seen as attempts at keeping alive the spirit of the Edwardian age. He was one of the best selling authors of the 1920s and 1930s, with seven of his novels making the best-seller list. His short fiction also appeared in several US magazines, including the Saturday Evening Post and Adventure.

Reviews

[Kris · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is the kind of book that ticks all my boxes. Time travel, Arthurian legend, kick-ass heroine, long journeys through the British countryside. It does occasionally have too many digressions (as the narrator concedes) and the parallels with World War 2 are rather unsubtle but worth checking out if you can get hold of a copy.