I have seen the future and it does not work.
Philip Toynbee Quotes
The primary duty of a serious biographer is to illuminate his subject’s life work, not to play the spy in his bedroom.
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| Birth: | 25th June, 1916 |
| Death: | 15th June, 1981 |
| Nationality: | British |
| Profession: | Critic, Novelist, Writer |
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Philip Toynbee was a British writer and communist. He wrote experimental novels, and distinctive verse novels, one of which was an epic called Pantaloon, a work in several volumes, only some of which are published. He also wrote memoirs of the 1930s, and reviews and literary criticism, the latter mainly via his employment with The Observer newspaper.
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