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Jack Hilton


Born
in Oldham, The United Kingdom
January 21, 1900

Genre
Fiction, Travel, Classics


Jack Hilton was a British novelist, essayist, and travel writer. His work often depicted working-class people and environments, especially those of northern England. Born into a working-class family, Hilton worked as a plasterer and was an active member of the plasterer’s union and the National Unemployed Workers’ Movement. After attending classes with the Workers Educational Association, he published his first book, the autobiographical Caliban Shrieks, in 1935. Hilton then attended Ruskin College, and eventually published a number of both fiction and nonfiction texts. He was acquainted with fellow working-class author Jack Common, socialist literary editor John Middleton Murray, and George Orwell. (Wikipedia)

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Average rating: 3.35 · 279 ratings · 43 reviews · 13 distinct works • Similar authors
Caliban Shrieks
3.32 avg rating — 273 ratings — published 1935 — 4 editions
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Seven Shifts
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Laugh At Polonius; or Yet, ...
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1942
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Champion
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1938
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English Ways : A Walk from ...
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1940
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English Ribbon
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Murder Stories: In diesem E...
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Shadows of the Crucifixion
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The TV Inquisitors
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“Attitudes of mind can become so elevated that you can rest with your filth, safe in the knowledge of philosophy, that the gymnasts of the brain can permit a continuance of the insufferable.”
― Jack Hilton, Caliban Shrieks: A rediscovered working-class masterpiece of British literature
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