Fame is the Spur

Zusatztext The tragedy of the novel rests not just in the arc it traces from the heroic era of the proletariat in Peterloo to the midnight of the twentieth century, but in the missed encounters and lost possibilities embodied in every Hamer Shawcross' TLS . Informationen zum Autor Howard Spring (1889-1965) won worldwide fame with his bestselling novel O Absalom! – afterwards reissued as My Son, My Son to avoid a clash with William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom! He settled in Cornwall, the setting for books that followed, such as Fame Is the Spur (1940), Hard Facts (1944), and The Houses in Between (1951). Klappentext New paperback edition of Howard Spring's bestselling title, first published in 1940. Zusammenfassung A novel of ambition, about a man who rises from the most humble of beginnings in Manchester and reaches the very top in politics.

Product details

• Authors: Howard Spring
• Assisted by: Michael Schmidt (Editor), Tristram Hunt (Introduction), Hunt Tristram (Introduction)
• Publisher: Head of Zeus
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 09.03.2017
• EAN: 9781784976347
• ISBN: 978-1-78497-634-7
• No. of pages: 608
• Series: Apollo; Apollo; Apollo Library
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / General, Fiction, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Classic fiction: general and literary