title: The Outsider: The Classic Exploration of Rebellion and Creativity (Tarcher Cornerstone Editions)
author:  Colin Wilson 
description: "An exhaustive, luminously intelligent study...a real contribution to our understanding of our deepest predicament." <b>Philip Toynbee<br /><br /></b>"The newest prodigy on the English literary scene, Mr. Wilson came out of nowhere from the outside. He walked into literature...as a man walks into his own house ... filled with assimilated erudition ... Where young Wilson got his knowledge baffled the critics. That he had there could be no mistake."<b> <i>The New York Times</i></b>
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  # The Outsider
  
  
  
  
  
  ## Colin Wilson
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  # Copyright
  
  
  
  
  
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  Copyright © 1956 by Colin Wison
  
  
  
  
  
  Introduction Copyright © 1978 by Colin Wilson
  
  
  
  
  
  Foreward Copyright © 1982 by Marilyn Ferguson
  
  
  
  
  
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  First Diversion Books edition September 2014  
  
  
  ISBN: 978-1-62681-382-3
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  # Acknowledgements
  
  
  
  
  
  I thank the following for giving permission to quote extracts:
  
  
  
  
  
  Cambridge University Press: George Sampson, _Concise Cambridge History of
  English Literature;_ George Fox, _Journals_.
  
  
  
  
  
  Dodd, Mead & Company: Rupert Brooke, _Collected Poems;_ Alexei Tolstoy, _The
  Death of Ivan Ilytch_.
  
  
  
  