The Left Book Club: An Historical Record
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Good
Markings: Ex-library with usual markings,Fair - Bumping on spine and corners. Rubbed edges.
Condition remarks: Bottom of jacket spine cut out to see library sticker underneath. Good reading copy.
Founded in 1936 by the maverick publisher Victor Gollancz, the Left Book Club became one of the most remarkable political and literary phenomena in twentieth-century Britain, uniting tens of thousands of readers under the banner of anti-fascism and progressive thought at a moment when Europe stood on the precipice of catastrophe. John Lewis's The Left Book Club: An Historical Record chronicles the Club's meteoric rise, its extraordinary influence on British public opinion during the turbulent years leading up to the Second World War, and the internal ideological battles that ultimately shaped — and strained — its identity. Lewis writes with the authority of an insider, presenting a meticulous yet accessible account that illuminates the intersection of publishing, politics, and popular intellectual culture. The narrative reveals how a monthly book subscription service became a genuine mass movement, counting George Orwell, Harold Laski, and John Strachey among its contributors, and argues that its legacy endures in the very fabric of the British left. With a foreword by Dame Margaret Cole adding further historical gravitas, this volume stands as an indispensable document for anyone seeking to understand the radical conscience of an era — and the passionate idealism that drove ordinary people to organise, read, and resist.
Author: John Lewis
Format: Hardback
Published: 1970, Victor Gollancz Ltd
Genre: History
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Good
Markings: Ex-library with usual markings,Fair - Bumping on spine and corners. Rubbed edges.
Condition remarks: Bottom of jacket spine cut out to see library sticker underneath. Good reading copy.
Founded in 1936 by the maverick publisher Victor Gollancz, the Left Book Club became one of the most remarkable political and literary phenomena in twentieth-century Britain, uniting tens of thousands of readers under the banner of anti-fascism and progressive thought at a moment when Europe stood on the precipice of catastrophe. John Lewis's The Left Book Club: An Historical Record chronicles the Club's meteoric rise, its extraordinary influence on British public opinion during the turbulent years leading up to the Second World War, and the internal ideological battles that ultimately shaped — and strained — its identity. Lewis writes with the authority of an insider, presenting a meticulous yet accessible account that illuminates the intersection of publishing, politics, and popular intellectual culture. The narrative reveals how a monthly book subscription service became a genuine mass movement, counting George Orwell, Harold Laski, and John Strachey among its contributors, and argues that its legacy endures in the very fabric of the British left. With a foreword by Dame Margaret Cole adding further historical gravitas, this volume stands as an indispensable document for anyone seeking to understand the radical conscience of an era — and the passionate idealism that drove ordinary people to organise, read, and resist.