# Caliban Shrieks

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- Authors: [Jack Hilton](https://www.bookquiver.com/jack-hilton)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2024-03-07

## Description

'Witty and unusual' George Orwell 'Magnificent' W H Auden A lyrical tour of life as a young working-class man born into the first days of the 20th century, Caliban Shrieks is a lost masterpiece of 1930s British literature. Caliban Shrieks’ narrator went from a childhood of poverty, yet joy and freedom, to the punishing grind of factory life and the idiocy of being sent blindly into war. He was turned out of the army a vagrant - seeing England from city to city, county to county - before being thrust back into an uncertain cycle of working life as it unfolded in the post-war years. A story of men and women lost, wandering – and angrily dreaming of a better, fairer England, Hilton’s autobiographical novel is a bold modernist retelling of the myth of how we find ourselves disenfranchised from the world and sold into a slavery of our making.

## Editions

### Caliban Shrieks

- Publisher: vintage_classics
- ISBN: 978-17-8487-876-4
- Pages: 208
- Published: 2025-03-06
- Language: en_GB

### Caliban Shrieks

- Publisher: vintage_digital
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-15-2992-603-3
- Published: 2024-03-07
- Language: en_GB