Table of Contents

1: Prologue; 2: Under the Mountain; 3: The Good Town; 4: His Cambridge; 5: Guards Officer; 6: Workers' Education in the Garden of England; 7: Outside the Walls; 8: Mr Raymond Williams and Dr F.R.Leavis; 9: Leader of the Left-In-Exile; 10: Watching Television; 11: Theory and Experience; 12: End of an Epoch; 13: For Continuity

About the Author

Fred Inglis

Reviews

`Williams had an enormous personal following while he was alive and this book does a great deal to illuminate his life and activities.' - British Society of Aesthetics

`... a useful introduction to the ideas which exercised the Welsh-man and made him one of the leading figures on the British Left, relating them to the facts of his life which have never hitherto been explored.' - Cardiff Western Mail

`Inglis's genial and absorbing book suggests that the experience ...' - The Times

'warm, lively, well-informed narrative.' - Times Literary Supplement

`Inglis has to write a biography because he believes that Williams celebrated "civic virtues" in "his life, more than his books". In this commitment are the sadness and honesty which characterise this book. With what Inlgis calls the "going down" of the "big stories" that socialist have made of history, he must turn to the "moral example" of and indivdual life. Biography must be our guide.' - Guardian

`But this is an honest, if strangely tormented, biography.' - Observer

'... he has done an energetic and entertaining job of telling his downbeat tale; he is also a cogent judge of Williams' large oeuvre.' - The Spectator

'... it presents a vivid portrait of the man. The book is suffused with the affection and respect the author has for his subjects.' - Cardiff Western Mail

'a loving, thoroughly researched book... shrewd, passionately wrought biography.' - Terry Eagleton