Fame Is the Spur by Howard Spring

Fame Is the Spur

Howard Spring

608 pages first pub 1940 (editions)

fiction politics reflective slow-paced

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Hamer Shawcross is born into a poor but aspirational working-class family in Manchester. Studious and hard-working, he becomes a socialist activist, goes into politics and rises to become part of the privileged upper classes he began by opposing. ...

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