Acknowledgments  ix

Introduction to the American Edition / Robert Lipsyte  xi

A Note on Cricket  xvii

Preface  xxi

Part One. A Window to the World  

1. The Window  3

2. Against the Current  21

3. Old School-tie  39

Part Two. All the World's a Stage  

4. The Light and the Dark  49

5. Patient Merit  66

6. Three Generations  72

7. The Most Unkindest Cut  82

Part Three. One Man in His Time  

8. Prince and Pauper  101

9. Magnanimity in Politics  117

10. Wherefore Are These Things Hid?  128

Part Four. To Interpose a Little Ease  

11. George Headley: Nascitur Non Fit  139

Part Five. W.G.: Pre-eminent Victorian  

12. What Do Men Live By?  151

13. Prolegomena to W. G.  159

14. W. G.  171

15. Decline of the West  186

Part Six. The Art and Practic Part  

16. "What is Art?"  195

17. The Welfare State of Mind  212

Part Seven. Vox Populi  

18. The Proof of the Pudding  225

19. Alma Mater: Lares and Penates  253

Epilogue and Apotheosis  257

Index  263

Robert Lipsyte

"If you want to look deeper into cricket’s intriguing history, check out Beyond a Boundary by C.L.R. James. First published in 1963, this modern cricket classic is both a tribute to the game that James grew up playing in his native Trinidad and a memoir of his years in England as a radical writer leading the crusade for West Indian independence."—Utne Reader

“A book of remarkable richness and force, which vastly expands our understanding of sports as an element of popular culture in the Western and colonial world.”—Mark Naison, The Nation

"[This] is a work of double reverence--for the resilient, elegant ritualism of cricket and for the black people of the world."—Whitney Balliett, New Yorker

“Beyond a Boundary is an extraordinary work….”—David Lammy, BBC History

"If you want to look deeper into cricket’s intriguing history, check out Beyond a Boundary by C.L.R. James. First published in 1963, this modern cricket classic is both a tribute to the game that James grew up playing in his native Trinidad and a memoir of his years in England as a radical writer leading the crusade for West Indian independence."—Utne Reader

“A book of remarkable richness and force, which vastly expands our understanding of sports as an element of popular culture in the Western and colonial world.”—Mark Naison, The Nation

"[This] is a work of double reverence--for the resilient, elegant ritualism of cricket and for the black people of the world."—Whitney Balliett, New Yorker

“Beyond a Boundary is an extraordinary work….”—David Lammy, BBC History

"Everything James has done has had the mark of originality, of his own flexible, sensitive, and deeply cultured intelligence. He conveys not a rigid doctrine but a delight and curiosity in all the manifestions of life, and the clue to everything lies in his proper appreciation of the game of cricket."—E. P. Thompson

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