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.
WITH NEW INTRODUCTIONS BY ANDREW McMILLAN AND JACK CHADWICK
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.
Lost to time, only to be rediscovered again in the Salford's Working Class Movement Library in 2022, Caliban Shrieks is a working-class masterpiece of British literature, and continues to speak as brash and impassioned as it did on its first rave publication in 1935.
'Witty and unusual' George Orwell
'Magnificent' W H Auden




![Zola, Emile & Tancock, Leonard W. CLASSICS Emile Zola: L' Assommoir [1970] paperback](http://chaptersbookstore.com/cdn/shop/files/zola-emile-tancock-leonard-w-emile-zola-l-assommoir-1970-paperback-60353906606419_{width}x.jpg?v=1733804771)
![Twain, Mark CLASSICS New Mark Twain: The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer [2012] paperback](http://chaptersbookstore.com/cdn/shop/files/twain-mark-mark-twain-the-adventures-of-tom-sawyer-2012-paperback-9780099573685-60728920670547_{width}x.jpg?v=1751126057)
![Barrie, J.M. & Stewart, Joel CHILDRENS CLASSICS New Jm Barrie: The Complete Peter Pan [2015] paperback](http://chaptersbookstore.com/cdn/shop/files/barrie-j-m-stewart-joel-jm-barrie-the-complete-peter-pan-2015-paperback-9781847495600-1160919216_{width}x.jpg?v=1760962592)
![Campion, Edmund CLASSICS Edmund Campion: The Rock Choppers [1983] paperback](http://chaptersbookstore.com/cdn/shop/files/campion-edmund-edmund-campion-the-rock-choppers-1983-paperback-1155177985_{width}x.jpg?v=1744226253)