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The glassblowers by Mervyn Peake

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The glassblowers

by Mervyn Peake

According to https://www.fantasticfiction.com/p/mervyn-peake/glassblowers.htm, "First edition of poems Mervyn Peake wrote when, in his words, he was "commissioned as a war-artist to record my impressions of work in a gla

English Science fiction
Author Mervyn Peake
Published 1950
Format Book

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About The glassblowers

According to https://www.fantasticfiction.com/p/mervyn-peake/glassblowers.htm, "First edition of poems Mervyn Peake wrote when, in his words, he was "commissioned as a war-artist to record my impressions of work in a glass-blowing factory near Birmingham, I found on entering the huge, ruinous, grimy, wharf-walled buildings a world upon its own, a place of roaring fires and monstrous shadows.""

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