'A haunting political allegory...a cracking beach read' The Times
Rex Warner was born on 9 March 1905. He was educated in Harpenden and at Wadham College, Oxford where he studied Classics and English and wrote poetry.His first collection was published in 1937. He went on to write several novels including The Aerodrome (1941), The Wild Goose Chase (1936) and The Professor (1938). After the war we went to Athens as Director of the British Institute. He later became a Classics professor and was also a celebrated translator of Greek classic writers including Xeonophon, Thucydides, Aeschylus and Euripides. He died on 24 June 1986.
A powerful and mysterious novel - totally gripping
*J.G. Ballard*
A horrified and darkly comic response to the appeal of
totalitarianism, a mixture of Orwellian satire, rural
sentimentality and Kafkaesque nightmare...
*Guardian*
Intensely original...humour and irony, and the smell of the English
earth...Its value as literature becomes increasingly apparent at
each re-reading
*Anthony Burgess*
The Aerodrome has been called the best novel ever written about
fascism...captures so well the sinister glamour...as unsettling
today as when it appeared more than sixty years ago
*New Statesman*
The only outstanding novelist of ideas whom the decade of ideas has
produced is Rex Warner
*V.S. Pritchett*
Splendid...The Aerodrome preceded Nineteen Eighty-Four by eight
years... The Aerodrome is the better book because it reaches out
towards the light
*Spectator*
Strange, visionary, more hauntingly complex and forgiving than its
near-contemporary dystopias, 1984 and Brave New World
*Guardian*
I am sure this book will do very well because the theme is so
contemporary
*Tony Benn*
A powerful and mysterious novel - totally gripping -- J.G.
Ballard
A horrified and darkly comic response to the appeal of
totalitarianism, a mixture of Orwellian satire, rural
sentimentality and Kafkaesque nightmare... * Guardian *
Intensely original...humour and irony, and the smell of the English
earth...Its value as literature becomes increasingly apparent at
each re-reading -- Anthony Burgess
The Aerodrome has been called the best novel ever written
about fascism...captures so well the sinister glamour...as
unsettling today as when it appeared more than sixty years ago *
New Statesman *
The only outstanding novelist of ideas whom the decade of ideas has
produced is Rex Warner -- V.S. Pritchett
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