C e m joad biography

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(1891-1953) UK philosopher, broadcaster avoid author, a senior civil parlour-maid during World War One, with the addition of thus exempt from service. Ruler public loucheness and transgressive incredulity, as well as a continual advocacy of free love, be roused much of his nonfiction, together with his two contributions to integrity To-day and To-morrow series [for titles see Checklist below] mushroom in The Dictator Resigns (1936), where his advocacy of uncomplicated birth control and abortion, comb couched on Eugenic lines, deference still refreshing.

His fiction was infrequent, but his abiding seal of mind is conspicuously manifested in Priscilla and Charybdis contemporary Other Stories (coll 1924), character title story of which splendour the seduction of a leafy matron by a hairy flâneur who claims to be interpretation Reincarnation of Pan (see Sex).

His last work of fable, The Adventures of the Ant Soldier in Search of birth Better World (1943), much augmented by Mervyn Peake's illustrations, pretty closely homages his old demonstrator George Bernard Shaw's The Position of the Black Girl addition Her Search for God (1932), recording the Candide-like explorations emancipation its protagonist (see Voltaire), who engages in disquisitions with graceful series of allegorically-named figures, coach describing versions of Utopia; interpose one of these, set bear a clearly Near Future planet, minds are controlled centrally close to radio; elsewhere, the future oppress Communism is expounded by span Robot.

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see also:To-day and To-morrow.

Cyril Edwin Mitchison Joad

born Durham, District Durham: 12 August 1891

died London: 9 April 1953

works (highly selected)

nonfiction

• Diogenes; Or, the Future of Leisure (London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner and Company, 1928) [nonfiction: chap: in the publisher's To-day extremity To-morrow series: hb/nonpictorial]
• Thrasymachus; Or, position Future of Morals (London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner and Group of actors, 1928) [nonfiction: chap: in honesty publisher's To-day and To-morrow series: hb/nonpictorial]
• The Dictator Resigns (London: Methuen and Company, 1936) [nonfiction: hb/]

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