The Wesker Trilogy: Chicken Soup with Barley; Roots; I’m Talking About Jerusalem

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Contents: Author’s Note; Chicken Soup with Barley; Roots; I’m Talking About Jerusalem. Back cover: “A trilogy which will act as a monument to its era” — Robert Muller in the Daily Mail. “The passion of Mr Wesker’s themes is matched by the living fire in his writing... its quality is undiminished by the passing years” — Bernard Levin. “Magnificently indestructible” — Francis King in the Sunday Telegraph. “This remarkable experiment... is very funny, very personal, very touching, very bright, very lively, very human and very beautifully written” — Daily Express. Colophon: Penguin Books Ltd., 27 Wrights Lane, London W8 5TZ (Publishing and Editorial) and Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England (Distribution and Warehouse). Viking Penguin Inc., 40 West 23rd Street, New York 10010, USA. Penguin Books Australia Ltd, Ringwood, Victoria, Australia. Penguin Books Canada Ltd, 2801 John Street, Markham, Ontario, Canada L3R 1B4. Penguin Books (N.Z.) Ltd, 182-190 Wairau Road, Auckland 10, New Zealand. Chicken Soup with Barley first published in Penguin Books 1959. Roots first published in Penguin Books 1959. I’m Talking About Jerusalem first published in Penguin Books 1960. The Wesker Trilogy first published by Jonathan Cape 1960. Published in Penguin Books 1965. Reprinted (years): 1966, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1977, 1978, 1979. Copyright © Arnold Wesker. Printed in Great Britain by Cox & Wyman Ltd, Reading, Berkshire. Set in Monotype Bembo.