Raymond Williams

Name: Raymond Williams
Brand: Taylor & Francis Ltd
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By: Fred Inglis

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Paperback | 9 April 1998 | Edition Number 1

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368 Pages

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23.4 x 15.6 x 2.3

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In his life, Raymond Williams played many parts: child of the Black Mountains, inspirational adult lecturer, Cambridge professor, folk hero and guru of the left. After his death, he has remained a symbolic figure and his classic works, Culture and Society, The Long Revolution, The Country and the City continue to inspire new generations all over the world.
In this first major biography, Fred Inglis has spoken to those who knew this complex and charismatic man at every stage of his life, from his boyhood in the Welsh border country to his brief years of retirement. Through their voices and his own passionate stories and at times combative engagement with his subject, he tells of a story of a life not just for its time but for our own. After Thatcher and Reagan and the Cold War, Williams still has much to teach us about the nature of a good and just society and about the constant struggle to attain it.

Industry Reviews

"With brio, passion, wisdom and occasional reservations, Inglis introduces us to and evaluates Raymond Williams, the man and the icon, the brilliant cultural-political theorist, the muted social activist, the minor novelist, the compromiser and conscience of the left." -Victor Navasky, Publisher, "The Nation "Raymond Williams has found the right biographer. Like Williams himself, Fred Inglis is both warm-hearted and discriminating; his new book is a reliable and entertaining guide to the life and thought of one of the most interesting writers of our time." -Brian Morton, Executive Editor, "Dissent "Warm lively, well-informed narrative.... unfailingly good on the context." -"Times Literary Supplement "A loving, thoroughly researched book...shrewd, passionately wrought biography." -Terry Eagleton

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