A 20th century literary classic! This was bestselling novelist Rachel Hores reaction when asked to introduce Gertrude Trevelyans 1937 novel Two Thousand Million ManPower. Utterly forgotten for over 80 years, neither the book nor its author are mentioned in any history of 20th century English literature. Yet Trevelyan is arguably the finest novelist of the generation to follow Virginia Woolf and Two Thousand Million ManPower is among her greatest achievements. It is a masterly piece of social realism that traces the lives of a young London couple set against a background of rapid technological, ideological and political change, and satirizes contemporary bourgeois life and its fashionable interwar belief in endless progress.Beginning on New Years Eve, 1919, Two Thousand Million ManPower follows Katherine and Robert, as university graduates, through almost 20 years of British history. Starting as idealistic radicals, they become comfortable middleclass consumers, only to then be plunged into unemployment and poverty when the stock market crashes. Trevelyans portrait of life in the 1920s and 1930s is as fierce and gripping as George Orwells The Road to Wigan Pier. Two Thousand Million ManPower continues the mission of Recovered Books series to rescue exceptional books long unavailable to todays readers.

Binding: Paperback;310 pages; Publisher: UEA PUBLISHING PROJECT, LTD.; Classification: FC; Weight: 452 g; Dimensions: 131 x 197 x 29

Something not quite right? You have 21 days from the day you receive it, to send something back.

Please note, we cannot offer refunds on fashion face masks, cosmetics, pierced jewellery, adult toys, and swimwear or lingerie if the hygiene seal is not in place or has been broken.

Items of footwear and/or clothing must be unworn and unwashed with the original labels attached. Also, footwear must be tried on indoors. Items of homeware including bedlinen, mattresses, and toppers, and pillows must be unused and in their original unopened packaging. This does not affect your statutory rights.

Click here to view our full Returns Policy.