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'I do not see how there could be a more insightful, more erudite, biography of this remarkable man' Doris Lessing, Times Literary Supplement Isaiah Berlin refused to write an autobiography,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat does it mean to think freely in an empire built on repression? Russian Thinkers by Isaiah Berlin...

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This revised edition has been completely re-set with an updated index and a new preface Isaiah Berlin witnessed the excesses of the Russian Revolution as a child, and in becoming...

This book consists of fifteen dialogues between Bryan Magee and some of the outstanding thinkers of the twentieth century. It is based on a highly successful BBC television series which...

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The Cold War roots of liberalism's present crisis "[A] daring new book."-Becca Rothfeld, Washington Post "A fascinating and combative intellectual history."-Gideon Rachman, Financial Times By the middle of the twentieth...

The British links with St Petersburg date back to the very year of its foundation and have continued almost unbroken to the present day. Anthony Cross narrates the story of...

Seven years after Stephen Spender's death, John Sutherland offers the authorised life of this brilliant, but famously enigmatic, man. Sutherland's account ranges from the depiction of Spender's cosmopolitan family (and...

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In a delightful book, Nicholas Henderson turns the pages of a varied and interesting life, and remembers. The memories are mostly portraits, often triggered off by passing incidents. The subjects...

Isaiah Berlin once argued that the concept of the intelligentsia was 'Russia's greatest contribution to world civilization.' Since the mid-nineteenth century, the Russian intelligentsia has shared a profound sense of...

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Author: Thomas Harding Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 A New York Times Critics' Pick for 2023 Born into a Jewish family in Vienna in 1919, George Weidenfeld fled to...

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A New York Times Critics' Pick for 2023 Born into a Jewish family in Vienna in 1919, George Weidenfeld fled to England in 1938 to escape the Nazi regime. There...

One of Latin America's greatest novelists, Mario Vargas Llosa is also a most acute and wide ranging cultural critic and an acerbic political commentator. Touchstones includes his readings of major...

Uncovering the hidden love triangle between novelist Elizabeth Bowen and the author's grandparents - the critically acclaimed biography with never-before-seen letters detailing the affair. For readers who were swept up...

A WATERSTONES BEST HISTORY BOOK OF 2023LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 ONDAATJE PRIZE'A masterful portrait of one of the world's greatest cities... A must-read' PETER FRANKOPAN'Such a delightful read' KATJA HOYER,...

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For half a century, the case of Isaiah Oggins, a 1920s New York intellectual brutally murdered in 1947 on Stalin's orders, remained hidden in the secret files of the KGB...

Traces Berlin's evolution from a thirteenth-century village to divided city to its modern incarnation and examines its institutions, architecture, social welfare, and arts.

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Author: Isaiah Ben-DasanBinding: HardbackPublished: Weatherhill, 1972Condition:Book: GoodJacket: DamagedPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Dust jacket inside fold clipped (not price corner), previous owner name inside dust jacket otherwise has light general...

Berlin Unseen is, like the first two parts of the Unseen series (London Unseen and New York Unseen), an authentic approach to the character of the German capital. At the...

The book titled Alexander Pushkin: A Celebration of Russia's Best-loved Writer by the author A. D. P. Briggs. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: good, worn/faded (refer to image). Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. One of the great autobiographical works of...

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Herbert Lionel Adolphus Hart was born in Yorkshire in 1907 to second generation Jewish immigrants. Having won a scholarship to Oxford University, he went on to become the most famous...

Turgenev's collection of insights into Russia and the lives of those who live there Turgenev's first major prose work is a series of twenty-five Sketches- the observations and anecdotes of...

'A timely historical overview of the constituents of leadership from the classical era to the present' New Statesman John Lewis Gaddis, the distinguished historian of the Cold War, has for...

A moving and personal memoir telling the story of a family grappling with trauma and identity in the wake of the Holocaust. For the first eighteen years of Simon Weisz's...

Everyone thinks they want to be free - or do they? John Gray's thought-stirring new book on freedom draws together insights from Gnosticism, science fiction, ancient sacrifice and the occult...

From the Jazz Age through the Kennedy administration, Edmund Wilson (1895-1972) stood at the center of the American cultural scene. A champion of the young Ernest Hemingway, a loyal friend...

In a book sure to stir argument for years to come, Robert Wright challen+ges the conventional view that biological evolution and human history are aimless. Ingeniously employing game theory -...

A Spectator Best Book of the Year; An Aspects of History Best Book of the Year; An Engelsberg Ideas Best Book of the Year Five hundred years ago, Thomas Wolsey...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat happens when a razor-sharp outsider's eye turns upon the most formidable minds in mid-twentieth-century Britain? Fly and...

A Spectator Best Book of the Year; An Aspects of History Best Book of the Year; An Engelsberg Ideas Best Book of the Year Five hundred years ago, Thomas Wolsey...