In 1938, a year after his death in Spain at the age of thirty, Christopher Caudwell's Studies in a Dying Culture was published, to be followed eleven years later by a second volume, Further Studies in a Dying Culture. This volume makes available both important works by one of the foremost Marxist critics of the thirties. The first book consists of eight essays: on George Bernard Shaw, T.E. Lawrence, D. H. Lawrence, H. G. Wells, Sigmund Freud, and on pacifism and violence, love, and liberty. The second is divided into five essays: The Breath of Discontent: A Study in Bourgeois Religion, Beauty: A Study in Bourgeois Aesthetics, Men and Nature: A Study in Bourgeois History, Consciousness: A Study in Bourgeois Psychology, and Reality: A Study in Bourgeois Philosophy.