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Raymond Williams: A Warrior's Tale (Library of Wales)
Raymond Williams A Warrior's Tale - Library of Wales Author:Dai Smith Using a rich array of material from Raymond Williams's hitherto unused personal papers - juvenilia, diaries, letters, unpublished novels and stories, notebooks, work drafts and fragments - Dai Smith takes us through the formative years on the Welsh Border as the son of a railway signalman and his wife, on to Cambridge in 1939 and War service in ... more »Normandy, to show in telling detail how the making of Culture and Society (1958) and the writing of his novel Border Country (1960) were all part of his conceptual breakthrough in the 1950s.« less