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Our Culture, What's Left of It: The Mandarins and the Masses
Theodore Dalrymple
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Hardcover. 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. Num Pages: 356 pages. BIC Classification: JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 156 x 223 x 32. Weight in Grams: 644.
This new collection of essays by the author of Life at the Bottom bears the unmistakable stamp of Theodore Dalrymple's bracingly clearsighted view of the human condition. In these pieces, Dr. Dalrymple ranges over literature and ideas, from Shakespeare to Marx, from the breakdown of Islam to the legalization of drugs. Here is a book that restores our faith in the central importance of literature and criticism to our civilization. Theodore Dalrymple is the best doctor-writer since William Carlos Williams. -Peggy Noonan. Includes When Islam Breaks Down, named the best journal article of 2004 by David Brooks of the New ... Read more
This new collection of essays by the author of Life at the Bottom bears the unmistakable stamp of Theodore Dalrymple's bracingly clearsighted view of the human condition. In these pieces, Dr. Dalrymple ranges over literature and ideas, from Shakespeare to Marx, from the breakdown of Islam to the legalization of drugs. Here is a book that restores our faith in the central importance of literature and criticism to our civilization. Theodore Dalrymple is the best doctor-writer since William Carlos Williams. -Peggy Noonan. Includes When Islam Breaks Down, named the best journal article of 2004 by David Brooks of the New ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Ivan R Dee, Inc
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
Weight
644g
Number of Pages
356
Place of Publication
Chicago, United States
ISBN
9781566636438
SKU
V9781566636438
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About Theodore Dalrymple
Theodore Dalrymple is a British doctor and writer who has worked on four continents and now practices in a British inner-city hospital and a prison. He has written a column for the London Spectator for thirteen years and is a contributing editor for City Journal in the United States. His earlier collection of essays, Life at the Bottom, was widely ... Read more
Reviews for Our Culture, What's Left of It: The Mandarins and the Masses
Dalrymple writes a clear and considered prose that makes him formidable indeed.
David Pryce-Jones
Book Review Digest
Theodore Dalrymple has succeeded (once more) in publishing a book that is both thoughtful and absorbing.
Paul Hollander
New York Sun
The brutal, penetrating honesty of his thinking and the vividness of his prose make Theodore Dalrymple ... Read more
David Pryce-Jones
Book Review Digest
Theodore Dalrymple has succeeded (once more) in publishing a book that is both thoughtful and absorbing.
Paul Hollander
New York Sun
The brutal, penetrating honesty of his thinking and the vividness of his prose make Theodore Dalrymple ... Read more