The Rack - The rediscovered 'powerful love story' (Sebastian Faulks)

Will he succeed, or will all the tortures he has endured have been for nothing?When The Rack was first published in 1958, the critical acclaim was universal: reviewers compared it with the works of Proust, Mann, and Camus and declared it a masterwork destined to take its place among the great novels of the 20th century.

About the author

A.E. Ellis was the pseudonym used by British novelist and playwright Derek Lindsay, who was born in 1920. His experiences in a sanatorium, having contracted TB, were to form a backdrop for his first and only novel, The Rack, which was published in 1958. The novel was met with high acclaim critical acclaim, with The Irish Times describing it as "quite possibly a masterpiece". Many fellow authors also praised the work, with Graham Greene writing: "there are certain books we call great for want of a better term, that rise like monuments above the cemeteries of literature: Clarissa Harlowe, Great Expectations, Ulysses. The Rack to my mind is one of this company."

Summary

Will he succeed, or will all the tortures he has endured have been for nothing?When The Rack was first published in 1958, the critical acclaim was universal: reviewers compared it with the works of Proust, Mann, and Camus and declared it a masterwork destined to take its place among the great novels of the 20th century.

Product details

• Authors: A E Ellis, A. E. Ellis
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 17.03.2022
• EAN: 9781784877378
• ISBN: 978-1-78487-737-8
• No. of pages: 544
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 33 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Fiction > Narrative literature > Contemporary literature (from 1945); FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Romance / Historical / 20th Century, FICTION / Medical, FICTION / Romance / Medical, Alps, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Swiss Alps, Romance: medical, FICTION / World Literature / England / 20th Century