12748 International Publishers New York, NY, U.S.A. 1947 Reprint Edition Hard Cover Good Blue cloth on boards. Volume is worn all edges, covers are stained and the rear cover shows sign of moisture damage, the moisture did not seep through to the pastedown. There is a small tear in the fabric of the spine near the heel, some signs of fraying at the spine ends. Now in protective wrap. British Marxist writer who died in the Spanish Civil War. From the Biographical Note: "This is one of the great books of our time. It is not easy reading. It is a book to be studied and annotated and returned to again and again. The reader will then find that, however often he takes it up, it will always give him fresh food for thought." "At the end of 1934 Spriggs/Caudwell came across some of the Marxist classics, and the following summer he spent immersed in the works of Marx, Engels and Lenin. Shortly thereafter he finished his first draft of Illusion and Reality, he then re-wrote Illusion and Reality in light of what he had learned and his conviction that Communism was to be the philosophy of his life. He joined the International Brigade and was killed in the Spanish Civil War, in 1936. Except for the novels, and the textbooks on aviation, all Caudwell's serious books were posthumous. Illusion and Reality was in the press when he left for Spain." From the Introduction: "This is a book not only about poetry but also about the sources of poetry. Poetry is written in language and therefore it is a book about sources of languages. Language is a social product, the instrument whereby men communicate and persuade each other; thus the study of poetry's sources cannot be separated from the study of society." $18.00USD
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