About the book
'Witty and unusual' George Orwell
'Magnificent' W H Auden
A lyrical tour of life as a young working-class man born into the first days of the 20th century, Caliban Shrieks is a lost masterpiece of 1930s British literature.
Caliban Shrieks’ narrator went from a childhood of poverty, yet joy and freedom, to the punishing grind of factory life and the idiocy of being sent blindly into war. He was turned out of the army a vagrant - seeing England from city to city, county to county - before being thrust back into an uncertain cycle of working life as it unfolded in the post-war years.
A story of men and women lost, wandering – and angrily dreaming of a better, fairer England, Hilton’s autobiographical novel is a bold modernist retelling of the myth of how we find ourselves disenfranchised from the world and sold into a slavery of our making.
Editions of Caliban Shrieks
- Hardcover
- ISBN 9781784878757
- Paperback
- ISBN 9781784878764
- EBook
- ISBN 9781529926033
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'Witty and unusual' George Orwell
'Magnificent' W H Auden
A lyrical tour of life as a young working-class man born into the first days of the 20th century, Caliban Shrieks is a lost masterpiece of 1930s British literature.
Caliban Shrieks’ narrator went from a childhood of poverty, yet joy and freedom, to the punishing grind of factory life and the idiocy of being sent blindly into war. He was turned out of the army a vagrant - seeing England from city to city, county to county - before being thrust back into an uncertain cycle of working life as it unfolded in the post-war years.
A story of men and women lost, wandering – and angrily dreaming of a better, fairer England, Hilton’s autobiographical novel is a bold modernist retelling of the myth of how we find ourselves disenfranchised from the world and sold into a slavery of our making.
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'Witty and unusual' George Orwell
'Magnificent' W H Auden
A lyrical tour of life as a young working-class man born into the first days of the 20th century, Caliban Shrieks is a lost masterpiece of 1930s British literature.
Caliban Shrieks’ narrator went from a childhood of poverty, yet joy and freedom, to the punishing grind of factory life and the idiocy of being sent blindly into war. He was turned out of the army a vagrant - seeing England from city to city, county to county - before being thrust back into an uncertain cycle of working life as it unfolded in the post-war years.
A story of men and women lost, wandering – and angrily dreaming of a better, fairer England, Hilton’s autobiographical novel is a bold modernist retelling of the myth of how we find ourselves disenfranchised from the world and sold into a slavery of our making.
What core themes, tropes, or subjects are explored in Caliban Shrieks?
Fiction > Biographical fiction / autobiographical fiction
Where can I read a sample of Caliban Shrieks?
You can read an official preview of the few pages here https://www.book2look.com/book/9781784878757
Who is/are the Author/s of the book Caliban Shrieks?
Jack Hilton
Who is the Publisher of the book Caliban Shrieks?
Random House
What are the ISBN numbers for the physical and digital editions?
Caliban Shrieks is available as hardcover(ISBN 9781784878757) and paperback(ISBN 9781784878764) and ebook(ISBN 9781529926033)
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