Product Description

Incest, murder, delusion and a devastating, tragic humor mark these three astonishing novellas that Gwyn Thomas wrote in 1946. In Oscar, ' the narrator of death and exploitation fails to fend off the evil that envelops him. In 'Simeon, ' the abuse of sexual and family power ends with violent death, and in 'The Dark Philosophers, ' the grimly humorous philosophers gather in an Italian cafe to tell the tragic tale of comeuppance and manslaughter that they engineer. These three novellas were originally written in 1946.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #48137 in Books
• Published on: 2005-12-23
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 308 pages

Review
'As if Thomas Hardy met Damon Runyon over a loving cup of small beer'. --New York Herald Tribune, 1947

'A masterpiece, a warm, beautiful, splendid book'. --Howard Fast

Howard Fast
'a masterpiece, a warm, beautiful, splendid book'

About the Author
Gwyn Jones was born into a large and boisterous family in Cymmer, Porth in 1913. After a scholarship to Porth County School he went to St Edmund Hall, Oxford, where he read Spanish. Mass unemployment at home and in-ground poverty deepened his radicalism. After working for the WEA he became a teacher, first in Cardigan and from 1942 in Barry. In 1962 he left teaching and concentrated on writing and broadcasting. His many published works of fiction include The Dark Philosophers (1946); The Alone to the Alone (1947); All Things Betray Thee (1949) The World Cannot Hear You (1951) and Now Lead Us Home (1952), and he also published collections of shorts stories, six stage plays and the autobiography A Few Selected Exits (1968).