{"product_id":"caliban-shrieks-by-jack-hilton-9781784878764","title":"Caliban Shrieks","description":"\u003cp\u003eWitty and unusual' George Orwell\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Magnificent' W H Auden\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCaliban 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jack Hilton","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57176826151285,"sku":"9781784878764","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0812\/4075\/2426\/files\/9781784878764.jpg?v=1778664072","url":"https:\/\/sherlockandpages.com\/products\/caliban-shrieks-by-jack-hilton-9781784878764","provider":"Sherlock \u0026 Pages","version":"1.0","type":"link"}