"The Revenge for Love" Book 1952 Lewis, Wyndham

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LEWIS, Wyndham

[377] pp.

Methuen & Co. Ltd.

1952

7 3/8" x 5 1/4"

Jacket design by Charles Handley-Read

Published … Read more LEWIS, Wyndham

[377] pp.

Methuen & Co. Ltd.

1952

7 3/8" x 5 1/4"

Jacket design by Charles Handley-Read

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 See less