Our Culture, What's Left of It: The Mandarins and the Masses

en Limba Engleză Paperback – 28 feb 2007

Presents a collection of essays that ranges over literature and ideas, from Shakespeare to Marx, from the breakdown of Islam to the legalization of drugs, and more. This book attempts to restore our faith in the central importance of literature and criticism to our civilization.

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ISBN-13: 9781566637213
ISBN-10: 156663721X
Pagini: 341
Dimensiuni: 148 x 221 x 26 mm
Greutate: 0.7 kg
Editura: IVAN R DEE INC

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"Dalrymple is a writer of genius: lucid, unsentimental, and profoundly honest.... He is one of the great essayists of our age."-Denis Dutton, Arts and Letters. "An urgent, important, almost an essential book...elegantly written, conscientiously argued, provocative, and fiercely committed."-Richard Davenport-Hines, Times Literary Supplement. "His gift for storytelling will keep readers turning pages."-Christian Century. "Theodore Dalrymple is the best doctor-writer since William Carlos Williams."-Peggy Noonan."

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A book that restores our faith in the central importance of literature and criticism to our civilization. In the twenty six pieces, Dr. Dalrymple ranges over literature and ideas, from Shakespeare to Marx.

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