Letters from London - Softcover

C. L. R. James

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9769505749 ISBN 13: 9789769505742

Publisher: Prospect Press, 2003

Synopsis

In 1932, C.L.R. James left his home in Trinidad for the first time and sailed to the United Kingdom to fulfill his literary ambitions. He was thirty-one years old. During his first weeks in London he wrote a series of vigorously opinionated essays for the Port of Spain Gazette, giving his impressions of the great city and its inhabitants, and describing his progress through the Bohemian circles of Bloomsbury.

Letters from London collects these essays for the first time in seventy years, offering an essential record of a crucial period in James's life. As the education and manners of his colonial upbringing are tested in the heady atmosphere of cosmopolitan London, we sense the emergence of the revolutionary thinker who was to become a major intellectual figure not just of the West Indies but of the world.

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About the Author

Historian of revolution, Marxist philosopher, novelist, activist, and critic, C.L.R. JAMES (1901-1989), was a major intellectual figure of the twentieth century. Born in Trinidad, he spent most of his life outside the Caribbean, working with various revolutionary movements in Britain and the United States. His classic works include American Civilization, Beyond a Boundary, and Mariners, Renegades and Castaways, recently published by UPNE for the first time in its complete form since its original appearance.

Edition details

• Publisher: Prospect Press
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9769505749
• ISBN 13: 9789769505742
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 184
• Editor: Nicholas Laughlin