Around the Outsider: Essays Presented to Colin Wilson on the Occasion of His 80th Birthday

by Colin Stanley

In May 1956, aged just 24, Colin Wilson achieved success and overnight fame with his philosophical study of alienation and transcendence in modern literature and thought, The Outsider. Fifty-four years on, and never out of print in English, the book is still widely read and discussed, having been translated into over thirty languages. In a remarkably prolific career, Wilson, a true polymath, has since written over 170 titles: novels, plays and non-fiction...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1846946689
• ISBN13: 9781846946684
• Release Date: May 2011
• Publisher: Q Books (Publishers) Ltd.
• Length: 345 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.4"