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Caliban Shrieks

English

By (author): Jack Hilton

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.

WITH NEW INTRODUCTIONS BY ANDREW McMILLAN AND JACK CHADWICK

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, Hiltons 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.

Lost to time, only to be rediscovered again in the Salford's Working Class Movement Library in 2022, Caliban Shrieks is a working-class masterpiece of British literature, and continues to speak as brash and impassioned as it did on its first rave publication in 1935.

'Witty and unusual' George Orwell
'Magnificent' W H Auden

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Product Details
  • Weight: 275g
  • Dimensions: 135 x 205mm
  • Publication Date: 07 Mar 2024
  • Publisher: Vintage Publishing
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781784878757

About Jack Hilton

Jack Hilton was born in the opening days of 1900 in Oldham Lancashire. He served in the army during the First World War and after a period of homelessness and working odd jobs became an active member of Rochdales Workers Rights movement where his rallying speeches led to a court-order banning him from further speechwriting. Instead Hilton turned to prose writing as an outlet using stints on the dole to hone his immense literary gift and produce his autobiographical novel Caliban Shrieks.A chance encounter with an editor in 1934 led to Hiltons discovery and paved the way for a short but dramatic writing career that included the publication of five books including Caliban Shrieks and greatly influenced the course of political writing in British literature. In 1950 Hilton retired from writing and returned to his first trade plastering. He died in 1983. The publication rights to Hiltons works were long considered lost until their discovery in 2022 allowed for the republication of Caliban Shrieks.

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