The debasement of politics by cheap metaphors and what are now known as ‘sound-bites’: a nice hardback reissue of this far-sighted essay.
Politics and the English Language
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Edition:Hardback978185124602130/09/2022From a Bookshelf nearby
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The Communist Manifesto unseamed by a fine brain - Mieville is better known as a highly successful novelist of ideas.
A Spectre, Haunting: On the Communist Manifesto
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This new biography captures how Rilke endeavoured to retain a sense of transcendence within a collapsing world.
Rilke: The Last Inward Man
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A delightful work of literary and domestic history about the effect of living in the countryside on the lives, outlook and work of this trio.
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From a trunk of diaries and letters, the author constructs the lively story of her mother, Celia Paget, and her sister. Lovers and friends included Orwell, Koestler, Camus, Sartre and de Bea... read more