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Purveyor of the occult, Wilson almost yearly produces fiction and nonfiction works that achieve popular if not critical success. This novel was first published here in 1971; it is being reissued, with a foreward by Joyce Carol Oates, as part of a series that makes available out-of-print... read more

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I was reading a book on music by Ralph Vaughan Williams the other day, whilst listening to a gramophone record of his remarkable Fifth Symphony, when I came acoss the following remark: "I have struggled all my life to conquer amateurish technique, and now that perhaps I have mastered it, it semms to latre to make any use of it."

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  1. Colin Wilson (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: Arthur Barker
Country: England
Publication Date: 1969
ISBN: 0213177900
Page Count: 315

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