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  • A Half-Century of Greatness

    The Creative Imagination of Europe, 1848-1884

    by Frederic Ewen ...
    Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2008A Half-Century of Greatness paints a vivid and dramatic picture of the creative thought of mid- to late nineteenth century Europe and the influence of the unsuccessful revolutions of 1848. It reveals often unexpected links between novelists, poets, and philosophers from England, Germany, Austria, Hungary, Russia, and Ukraine—especially Dickens, Carlyle, ... Read more

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  • All Art Is Propaganda

    Critical Essays

    by George Orwell, Keith Gessen ...
    The essential collection of critical essays from a twentieth-century master and author of 1984.As a critic, George Orwell cast a wide net. Equally at home discussing Charles Dickens and Charlie Chaplin, he moved back and forth across the porous borders between essay and journalism, high art and low.A frequent commentator on literature, language, film, and drama throughout his career, Orwell turned ... Read more

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  • The Roots of Romanticism

    Second Edition

    by Isaiah Berlin ...
    Series series Bollingen Series
    A brilliant brief account of romanticism and its influence from one of the most important philosophers and intellectual historians of the twentieth centuryIn The Roots of Romanticism, one of the twentieth century's most influential philosophers dissects and assesses a movement that changed the course of history. Brilliant, fresh, immediate, and eloquent, these celebrated Mellon Lectures are a ... Read more

    $10.69 USD

  • Karl Marx

    Thoroughly Revised Fifth Edition

    by Isaiah Berlin, Terrell Carver ...
    Isaiah Berlin's intellectual biography of Karl Marx has long been recognized as one of the best concise accounts of the life and thought of the man who had, in Berlin's words, a more "direct, deliberate, and powerful" influence on mankind than any other nineteenth-century thinker. A brilliantly lucid work of synthesis and exposition, the book introduces Marx's ideas and sets them in their context, ... Read more

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  • The Communist Manifesto

    by Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels ...
    **Karl Marx’s groundbreaking work that calls for the overthrow of capitalism in favor of a classless society free of exploitation and inequality.“No man has influenced the course of human history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries more than Karl Marx. . . . The Communist Manifesto reads today with no less vibrancy and urgency than in 1848.”—Vladimir Pozner, from the Introduction**“A spectre ... Read more

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  • Schnitzler's Century

    The Making of Middle-Class Culture 1815-1914

    by Peter Gay ...
    "This is cultural history of the first order, and it is liberal and humane history at its very best."—David CannadineAn essential work for anyone who wishes to understand the social history of the nineteenth century, Schnitzler's Century is the culmination of Peter Gay's thirty-five years of scholarship on bourgeois culture and society. Using Arthur Schnitzler, the sexually emboldened Viennese ... Read more

    $17.09 USD

  • Reflections of a Nonpolitical Man

    by Thomas Mann ...
    Translated by Walter D. Morris ...
    A classic, controversial book exploring German culture and identity by the author of Death in Venice and The Magic Mountain, now back in print.When the Great War broke out in August 1914, Thomas Mann, like so many people on both sides of the conflict, was exhilarated. Finally, the era of decadence that he had anatomized in Death in Venice had come to an end; finally, there was a cause worth ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • The Cultivation of Hatred: The Bourgeois Experience: Victoria to Freud

    by Peter Gay ...
    With the same sweep, authority, and originality that marked his best-selling Freud: A Life for Our Time, Peter Gay here takes us on a remarkable journey through middle-class Victorian culture.Gay's search through middle-class Victorian culture, illuminated by lively portraits of such daunting figures as Bismarck, Darwin and his acolytes, George Eliot, and the great satirists Daumier and Wilhelm ... Read more

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  • The Naked Heart

    by Peter Gay ...
    In The Naked Heart, Peter Gay explores the bourgeoisie's turn inward.At the very time that industrialists, inventors, statesmen, and natural scientists were conquering new objective worlds, Gay writes, "the secret life of the self had grown into a favorite and wholly serious indoor sport."Following the middle class's preoccupation with inwardness through its varied cultural expressions (such as ... Read more

    $19.79 USD

  • The Quotable Chesterton

    The Wit and Wisdom of G. K. Chesterton

    by Kevin Belmonte ...
    G. K. Chesterton was a literary giant of his age. With an exceptional intellect, he wrote about history, politics, economics, philosophy, social and literary criticism, and theology. He published essays, novels, biographies, short stories, and poetry, and the Christian classics Heretics, Orthodoxy, and The Everlasting Man, which C. S. Lewis credits as instrumental in his conversion to Christianity ... Read more

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  • The Treason of the Intellectuals

    by Julien Benda, Roger Kimball ...
    Julien Benda's classic study of 1920s Europe resonates today. The "treason of the intellectuals" is a phrase that evokes much but is inherently ambiguous. The book bearing this title is well known but little understood. This edition is introduced by Roger Kimball.From the time of the pre-Socratics, intellectuals were a breed apart. They were non-materialistic knowledge-seekers who believed in a ... Read more

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  • In The Land Of Nod

    by Hubert Butler ...
    In The Land of Nod is the fourth and final volume of Hubert Butler's essays and crowns a remarkable literary odyssey. As Neal Ascherson writes: 'When the first collection appeared in 1985 he was already an old man/ His fame began to spread across his native Ireland and then across the world. By the time of his death in 1991 readers throughout Europe and America were asking in amazement why he had ... Read more

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