A Warrior's Tale
Published on 2. October 2020
474 pages
978-1-913640-13-2 (ISBN)
Description
RAYMOND WILLIAMS (1921-1998) was the most influential socialist writer and thinker in post-war Britain. Now, for the first time, making full use of Williams's private and unpublished papers and by placing him in a wide social and cultural landscape, Dai Smith, in this highly original and much praised biography, uncovers how Williams's life to 1961 is an explanation of his immense intellectual achievement.
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Dai Smith was born in the Rhondda in 1945. His writing has encompassed history, biography, essays and criticism. He was the Series Editor of the Library of Wales series and Chair of the Arts Council Wales and was made a CBE for services to arts and culture in Wales in 2016. He currently edits the Modern Wales Series and is Chair of the Dylan Thomas Prize.
Content
- Intro
- "Whether it will. be the kind of book you would really wish to publish"
- Preface
- Title Page
- Dedication
- List of illustrations
- Epigraph
- Introduction
- 1. A Settlement
- 2. A Schooling
- 3. "Nominally Connected Lives"
- 4. "An Odd Adventure or Two"
- 5. "A Quality Beyond Art"
- 6. "Politics and Letters"
- 7. "A good actor sticks to his own lines"
- 8. "The Line is Crossed"
- 9. "Whether it will. be the kind of book you would really wish to publish"
- 10. "A Decisive Stage."
- 11. ". but I am Price from Glynmawr"
- "This actual growth"
- A Note On Sources
- Index
- Modern Wales by Parthian Books
- About the Author
- Copyright
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