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 Darkness at Noon) which defined a particular mood and to today's audience gives an unparalleled sense of how Europe turned toxic on the eve of ...
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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 Darkness at Noon) which defined a particular mood and to today's audience gives an unparalleled sense of how Europe turned toxic on the eve of the Second World War. A major statement by a great artist and writer The Revenge for Love now deserves a new generation of readers and is the perfect introduction to Lewis's work.
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Wyndham Lewis. Fine in Near Fine Plus jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Hard cover in clear dust jacket. cloth-backed paper-covered, illustrated boards., no flaws or wear beyond the negligible. clean, bright, no markings. tight binding. a very well preserved copy., no. 78 from the hand-bound edition of 126 copies.; 399pp., the first critical edition of lewis' 1930s novel. eight illustrations by lewis.
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Fine in Fine jacket. First edition. Edited with afterword and notes by Reed Way Dasenbrock. Creases on front pastedown, else fine in fine acetate dust jacket. One of 126 numbered copies, this being number one.