Description
A first edition, first printing of The History Man by Malcolm Bradbury, published by Secker and Warburg, London in 1975. A near fine book without inscriptions, some toning to the text block, hand-written mathematical equations to the rear free end paper and paste-down. In a near fine unclipped wrapper with some creasing to lower edge of front panel and light bumping to extremities.
The History Man by Malcolm Bradbury is a satirical campus novel set in a progressive English university during the 1970s. It follows Howard Kirk, a radical sociology professor who embodies the fashionable leftist ideologies of the era. Charismatic yet manipulative, Howard uses politics and personal freedom to justify his self-interest, seductions and betrayals. Through sharp wit and irony, Bradbury exposes academic pretensions, moral hypocrisy and the cultural upheavals of the time, creating a biting portrait of intellectual opportunism.
