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Affirming: Letters 1975-1997 by Isaiah Berlin
Category: Biography
"IB was one of the great affirmers of our time." (John Banville, New York Review of Books). The title of this final volume of Isaiah Berlin's letters is echoed by John Banville's verdict in his review of its predecessor, Building: Letters 1960-75, which saw Berlin publish some of his most important work ...Show more
First Love and Other Stories by Ivan Turgenev; Isaiah Berlin (Translator); Leonard Schapiro (Translator); V.S. Pritchett (Introduction by)
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
Bringing together six of Turgenev's best known stories in volume, this collection includes First Love, Asya, Mumu, The Diary of a Superfluous Man, Song of Triumphant Love, and King Lear of the Steppes. About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the broadest spectrum ...Show more
First Love and Other Stories by Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev; Isaiah Berlin (Translator); Leonard Schapiro (Translator)
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
"This volume contains two of the world's great love stories - FIRST LOVE, and SPRING TORRENTS, which show Turgenev at his very best. Simple, direct and tender, they record the pains and glories of youthful infatuation in a style which evokes exactly and in detail what it is like to be young and in love. ...Show more
Maistre - Considerations on France by Isaiah Berlin (Introduction by); Joseph Marie Comte De Maistre; Richard A. Lebrun (Editor); Raymond Geuss (Contribution by); Quentin Skinner (Contribution by)
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought Ser.
Joseph de Maistre's Considerations on France (1797) is the best known French equivalent of Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France. The work of the self-exiled Maistre presents a providential interpretation of the French Revolution and argues for a new alliance of throne and altar under a restor ...Show more
Personal Impressions by Isaiah Berlin
Category: Biography
The third, enlarged edition of Isaiah Berlin's remarkable series of character portraits, Personal Impressions Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Virginia Woolf, Aldous Huxley, Albert Einstein, Boris Pasternak and Anna Akhmatova: Isaiah Berlin's Personal Impressions collects the essayist and inte ...Show more
Russian Thinkers by Isaiah Berlin
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Presenting ten essays, the author addresses the Russian minds of the nineteenth century: Herzen, Bakunin, Turgenev, Belinsky and Tolstoy, as well as exploring the political and social revolutions they inspired and responded to. He describes this as 'the largest single Russian contribution to social chan ...Show more
The Hedgehog And The Fox: An Essay on Tolstoy's View of History by Isaiah Berlin
Category: History | Series: W&N Essentials Ser.
'Brilliant. Searching and profound' E.H. Carr, Times Literary Supplement'When reading Isaiah Berlin we breathe an altogether different air' New York Review of Books'Beautifully written' W. H. Auden, New Yorker'Ingenious. Exactly what good critical writing should be' Max Beloff, GuardianThe fox knows man ...Show more
The Hedgehog and the Fox by Isaiah Berlin
Category: Fiction
'The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.' This fragment of Archilochus, which gives this book its title, describes the central thesis of Isaiah Berlin's masterly essay on Tolstoy. There have been various interpretations of Archilochus' fragment; Isaiah Berlin has simply used it, ...Show more
The Proper Study of Mankind: An Anthology of Essays by Isaiah Berlin
Category: Non-Fiction
This is edited by Henry Hardy and Roger Hausheer and with a new foreword by Andrew Marr. Isaiah Berlin was one of the leading thinkers of the century, and one of the finest writers. The Proper Study Of Mankind selects some of the best of his essays. The full (and enormous) range of his work is represent ...Show more
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