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Part of a Journey: An Autobiographical Journal 1977-1979
Part of a Journey An Autobiographical Journal 1977-1979
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First published April 21, 1981
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Philip Toynbee
19 books4 followersPhilip Toynbee was an English writer and editor best known for novels that experiment with time and symbolical elements.
He was the son of the historian Arnold Toynbee and grandson of the classical scholar Gilbert Murray. He was educated at Rugby School and the University of Oxford. In 1938–39 he edited a newspaper, the Birmingham Town Crier. After service in World War II he worked in publishing and, from 1950, was on the editorial staff of the newspaper The Observer.
Of Toynbee’s experimental, subjective novels, the best known are The Savage Days (1937), The Barricades (1943), and Tea with Mrs. Goodman (1947). Later he wrote novels in verse, notably the “Pantaloon” series: Pantaloon or the Valediction (1961), Two Brothers (1964); A Learned City (1966), Views from a Lake, (1968). With his father, Arnold, he wrote Comparing Notes: A Dialogue Across a Generation (1963).
He was the son of the historian Arnold Toynbee and grandson of the classical scholar Gilbert Murray. He was educated at Rugby School and the University of Oxford. In 1938–39 he edited a newspaper, the Birmingham Town Crier. After service in World War II he worked in publishing and, from 1950, was on the editorial staff of the newspaper The Observer.
Of Toynbee’s experimental, subjective novels, the best known are The Savage Days (1937), The Barricades (1943), and Tea with Mrs. Goodman (1947). Later he wrote novels in verse, notably the “Pantaloon” series: Pantaloon or the Valediction (1961), Two Brothers (1964); A Learned City (1966), Views from a Lake, (1968). With his father, Arnold, he wrote Comparing Notes: A Dialogue Across a Generation (1963).
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July 16, 2009
Second time of reading this day journal. I picked it up years ago in a library sale. There are some great references which I have found nourishing to follow up, I am introduced to new writers and ideas, or new aspects of ones with which I am familiar. Toynbee, one of the founders of Depressives Anonymous, can irritate me with his constant mood changes and incessant self-absorption, but I stand back and reflect the irritation comes from recognition. I would like to read the others in thsi trilogy of journals. He died two years after the present one was completed. Unfortunately they are hard to get hold of.
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