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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
Affirming: Letters 1975-1997 by Isaiah Berlin
Category: Culture
"IB was one of the great affirmers of our time." (John Banville). In this final volume, Isaiah Berlin enters a profoundly interesting last phase in his life. He is as prolific a correspondent as ever, but the publication of new essay collections produces a striking change in tone, as readers seek clarif ...Show more
Building: Letters 1960-1975 by Isaiah Berlin
Category: Biography Memoir
In the period covered here (1960-75) Isaiah Berlin creates Wolfson College, Oxford; John F. Kennedy becomes US President (and is assassinated); Berlin dines with JFK on the day he is told of the Soviet missile bases in Cuba; the Six-Day Arab-Israeli war of 1967 creates problems that are still with us to ...Show more
Concepts and Categories: Philosophical Essays - Second Edition by Isaiah Berlin
Category: Philosophy and Religion
Includes essays that presents the sweep of author's contributions to philosophy from his early participation in the debates surrounding logical positivism to his later work, which more evidently reflects his life-long interest in political theory, the history of ideas, and the philosophy of history. "Th ...Show more
Enlightening: Letters 1946 - 1960 by Isaiah Berlin
Category: Biography
'People are my landscape', Isaiah Berlin liked to say, and nowhere is the truth of this observation more evident than in his letters. He is a fascinated watcher of human beings in all their variety, and revels in describing them to his many correspondents. His letters combine ironic social comedy and a ...Show more
First Love and Other Stories by Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev; Isaiah Berlin (Translator); Leonard Schapiro (Translator)
Category: Australian History | 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
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
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