The Man Who Went Back (1940) is an adventure novel by Warwick Deeping about a man who has a car accident in 1939 England. He is transported back into post-Roman Britain and has to contend with the knowledge that he is from the future, in the past.

The Man Who Went Back
First edition (UK)
AuthorWarwick Deeping
Cover artistRowland Hilder
LanguageEnglish
GenreScience fiction novel
PublisherCassell and Co (UK)
Alfred A. Knopf (US)
McClelland & Stewart (Canada)
Publication date
1940 (November 11, 1940 in United States[1])
Publication placeUnited Kingdom
Media typePrint (Hardback)
Pages382 pp
TextThe Man Who Went Back at Internet Archive

Upon release, the New York Times described the book as a "remarkable merger" of Deeping's prior novels with "cloak-and-sword" settings and those set in contemporary times, resulting in an "odd but earnest novel."[2]

References

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  1. ^ (11 November 1940). Book Published Today, The New York Times
  2. ^ Wallace Margaret (17 November 1940). The New Deeping (book review), The New York Times
  • Tuck, Donald H. (1974). The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy. Chicago: Advent. p. 134. ISBN 0-911682-20-1.
  • www.warwickdeeping.com