After the Deluge. A Study of Communal Psychology.

Re-issue. 12mo. Pp. xviii, 278, [8]. Card covers in cream and turquoise, printed in black and blue, complete with dustwrapper priced 6d. Preface by author, index of persons and index of subjects. List of all Penguin and Pelican publications up to 1937, to rear. Originally published by the Hogarth Press in 1931. A second volume was to follow in 1939 with the final, Principia Politica (its title changed at the suggestion of Maynard Keynes), coming out in 1953.

Tanned to prelims. and textblock edges, sunned to d/w backstrip with a 1" closed tear to spine fold, else Fine.

A detailed survey of the origins of the communal psychology of democracy, its general nature and its relation to the French Revolution of 1789. Meant to be a major work of scientific history equivalent in stature to Lytton Strachey's Eminent Victorians, John Maynard Keynes' The Economic Consequences of the Peace and Roger Fry's Vision and Design, Woolf's professed magnum opus fell into obscurity, despite his over-long labours.

[Pelican Books A18]