Imaginary Toys

By Julian Mitchell

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0571304206
• ISBN13: 9780571304202
• Release Date: June 2013
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Length: 210 Pages
• Weight: 0.51 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.8" x 0.4" x 5.1"