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
£10.00
Edition:Hardback978185124602130/09/2022From a Bookshelf nearby
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Insecure but fiercely precocious, the young Sontag devours everything that culture offers up to her. From her early teens through to late twenties, she craves not just the thrill of intellec... read more
Reborn: Early Diaries 1947-1963
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AdeC is a superb social historian and here she has found a subject supremely worthy of her skill. Her cast here comprises Wyndham Lewis, Aldous Huxley, Tristan Tzara, Ezra Pound, Louis Arago... read more
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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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This new biography captures how Rilke endeavoured to retain a sense of transcendence within a collapsing world.
Rilke: The Last Inward Man
Hardback £20.00