The Revenge for Love
$29.34
- Paperback
400 pages
- Release Date
14 April 2004
Summary
A major addition to Penguin Modern Classics - one of the great British modernists
Published in the shadow of the Spanish Civil War, The Revenge for Love is a political thriller attacking the fraudulence and feeble-mindedness of life in the Britain of the 1930s. A brilliant satire on a world that has lost its sense of self and been seduced by the appeal of Communism, it is one of a handful of books (it could be compared to Orwell’s Coming Up for Air or Koestler’s …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141187648 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0141187646 |
| Author: | Wyndham Lewis, Paul Edwards |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 400 |
| Release Date: | 14 April 2004 |
| Weight: | 145g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 1mm |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
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About The Author
Wyndham Lewis
Wyndham Lewis was born in 1882 and died in 1957. Before the First World War he was at the heart of the British avant-garde and creator of Vorticism and Blast. He fought in the artillery during the war, a time recalled in his memoir Blasting and Bombadiering. His major novels include Tarr, The Apes of God, Rotting Hill, The Revenge for Love, The Childermass and Self-Condemned. His paintings and drawings are held in many collections around the world, most notably Tate Britain.
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