Caliban Shrieks

<b>A lyrical tour of life as a young working-class man born into the first days of the 20th century, <i>Caliban Shrieks</i> is a lost masterpiece of 1930s British literature.</b><br><br><b>WITH NEW INTRODUCTIONS BY ANDREW McMILLAN AND JACK CHADWICK</b><br><br><i>Caliban Shrieks’</i> 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.<br><br>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.<br><br>Lost to time, only to be rediscovered again in the Salford''s Working Class Movement Library in 2022, <i>Caliban Shrieks</i> 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.<br><br><b>''Witty and unusual'' George Orwell<br>''Magnificent'' W H Auden </b>