# The Longest Journey

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- Authors: [Gilbert Adair](https://www.bookquiver.com/gilbert-adair)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2006-07-27

## Description

Rickie Elliot, a sensitive and intelligent young man with an intense imagination and a certain amount of literary talent, sets out from Cambridge full of hopes to become a writer. But when his stories are not successful he decides instead to marry the beautiful but shallow Agnes, agreeing to abandon his writing and become a schoolmaster at a second-rate public school. Giving up his hopes and values for those of the conventional world, he sinks into a world of petty conformity and bitter disappointments.

## Editions

### The Longest Journey

- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-01-4144-148-1
- Pages: 432
- Published: 2006-07-27
- Language: en_GB