General Strike 1926
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The electoral landscape of 1922 must have had a very different feel to it than previous decades; Woman’s suffrage, fear of Germany and Ireland, so many of the pre-war political landmarks had either vanished or receded into the background... more
A new, enlarged and greatly revised biography, building on Hugh Purcell's original 2004 edition.
Stained Radiance (first published in 1930) was the début novel by James Leslie Mitchell (better known as Lewis Grassic Gibbon). It charts the intertwined lives of a group of men and women struggling to live in London in the wake of the... more
A new introduction to Wyndham Lewis's Satire. Discusses Bergson, Sorel, General Strike, Modernism. Designed for German readers, but this is nevertheless a full introduction to most aspects of Lewis's 1930 satire.
Louis MacNeice is increasingly recognised as one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century, and his work has been a defining influence upon a generation of Irish poets that includes Derek Mahon, Michael Longley and Paul Muldoon. "The... more