Outsider - Hardcover
Dust jacket fading in colour.Hardback, ex-library, with usual stamps and markings, in good all round condition.
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Colin Wilson was a prominent philosopher and novelist. Wilson called his philosophy 'new existentialism'. He is perhaps best known for THE OUTSIDER. It has never been out of print and has been translated into over thirty languages.
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"An exhaustive, luminously intelligent study...a real contribution to our understanding of our deepest predicament." —Philip Toynbee
"The newest prodigy on the English literary scene, Mr. Wilson came out of nowhere from the outside. He walked into literature...as a man walks into his own house ... filled with assimilated erudition ... Where young Wilson got his knowledge baffled the critics. That he had there could be no mistake." —The New York Times
"The newest prodigy on the English literary scene, Mr. Wilson came out of nowhere from the outside. He walked into literature...as a man walks into his own house ... filled with assimilated erudition ... Where young Wilson got his knowledge baffled the critics. That he had there could be no mistake." —The New York Times
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- PublisherOrion Publishing Co
- Publication date1956
- ISBN 10 0575006803
- ISBN 13 9780575006805
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages288
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THE OUTSIDER: An Enquiry Into the Nature of the Sickness of Mankind in the Mid-Twentieth Century
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Good. Light wear to boards. Content is clean and has light toning. Owner signature to title page. DJ with some edge wear, toning, areas of loss and creasing. Seller Inventory # 9999-9994161104
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THE OUTSIDER
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Victor Gollancz Ltd, United Kingdom
(1978)
ISBN 10: 0575006803
ISBN 13: 9780575006805
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. An inquiry into the nature of the sickness of mankind in the mid-twentieth century. A most remarkable book upon which many of Colin Wilson's later books are based. Author's first book. Eighteenth Imp. Victor Gollancz Ltd, London 1978. 288pp hb dw clipped & slightly shelf worn, otherwise fine. Seller Inventory # 004827
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