1938 On the Frontier: A Melodrama in Three Acts

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First Edition, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding, With Dustwrapper

First edition, first impression. A melodrama in three acts telling the story of the outbreak of the war between the fictional European countries of Ostnia and Westland. Written in prose and verse, it is considered the successor to The Ascent of F6. The play was produced in October 1938 at the Cambridge Arts Theatre. Written by Wystan Hugh Auden, a British-American poet and author, and Christopher William Bradshaw Isherwood, an English and American novelist, playwright, screenwriter, autobiographer, and diarist.