# Hopeful Monsters - Paperback

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by **Nicholas Mosley** (Author), **Sven Birkerts** (Introduction by)

**Thirty-five years after its original publication,** **_Hopeful Monsters_** **reemerges as one of the "grand intellectual dramas" of the 20th century (-****_The New York Times)._**

  

A sweeping, comprehensive epic, _Hopeful Monsters_ tells the story of the love affair between Max, an English student studying physics and biology, and Eleanor, a German Jew and political radical. Together, Max and Eleanor participate in the great political and intellectual movements which shape the twentieth-century, taking them from Cambridge and Berlin to the Spanish Civil War, Russia, the Sahara, and finally to Los Alamos to witness the first nuclear test.

  

Originally published as the culminating volume of a series of five works of fiction entitled "Catastrophe Practice" that _The Chicago Tribune_ called "one of the most important extended literary projects of \[the 20th\] century," _Hopeful Monsters_ is the first reissue in a new Dalkey Archive initiative to bring Mosley's epistolary genius back into circulation for modern readers.

### Author Biography

**Nicholas Mosley** (b. 1923) was raised in London, England. He is the author of a dozen novels and a half-dozen works of non-fiction, including an acclaimed biography of his father, the late Sir Oswald Mosley, leader of the fascist party in England in the 1930s. Films have been made of two of his novels, _Accident_ (using a screenplay by Harold Pinter and directed by Joseph Losey) and _Impossible Object_. Mosley passed away in London in 2017 at the age of 93.

**Sven Birkerts** is the author of 12 books of essays and memoir, most recently _The Miro Worm_ and _The Mysteries of Writing_. Former Director of the Bennington Writing Seminars, he co-edits the journal _AGNI_. He lives in Amherst, Massachusetts with his wife.

**Number of Pages:** 578

**Dimensions:** 1.6 x 8.8 x 6 IN

**Publication Date:** March 10, 2026

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