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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Isaiah Berlin , Henry Hardy , Hermione Lee , Noel AnnanPublisher: Princeton University Press Imprint: Princeton University Press Edition: Revised edition Dimensions: Width: 14.00cm , Height: 3.70cm , Length: 21.60cm Weight: 0.454kg ISBN: 9780691157702ISBN 10: 0691157707 Pages: 528 Publication Date: 25 May 2014 Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , General , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Language: English Table of ContentsReviewsWelcoming and rewarding... [Berlin] is at his most conversational. This splendid book bring[s] the past to life. --Peter Stansky, New York Times Book Review [Berlin's] writing has all the elan of conversation... [His] sense of humor ... preserves frank delight in human contradiction. --V. S. Pritchett, New York Review of Books Contains many amusing and revealing anecdotes. --Dan Jacobson, Times Literary Supplement An amazingly enjoyable book. --Christopher Hitchens, New Statesman Marvellously good reading. --Alan Ryan, Sunday Times (London) A thrilling and agreeable work... [W]armly recommended. --Peter Jay, Washington Post Book World An enthralling collection... It is hard to think of any other writer who is so penetrating, so amusing, and yet so entirely free of malice. --Anthony Storr, Spectator Marvellous... It is one of Berlin's most endearing characteristics that he can admire so many utterly diverse people, that he can tell us about them all, and see the point of them. --Mary Warnock, Listener Provides an invigorating spectacle of the liberal mind at its most assured and unobstructed, glorying in the variety of human character and achievement. --Anthony Quinton, Encounter Welcoming and rewarding... [Berlin] is at his most conversational. This splendid book bring[s] the past to life. --Peter Stansky, New York Times Book Review [Berlin's] writing has all the ?lan of conversation?. [His] sense of humor ... preserves frank delight in human contradiction. --V. S. Pritchett, New York Review of Books An amazingly enjoyable book. --Christopher Hitchens, New Statesman Marvellously good reading. --Alan Ryan, Sunday Times (London) A thrilling and agreeable work?. [W]armly recommended. --Peter Jay, Washington Post Book World An enthralling collection?. It is hard to think of any other writer who is so penetrating, so amusing, and yet so entirely free of malice. --Anthony Storr, Spectator Marvellous... It is one of Berlin's most endearing characteristics that he can admire so many utterly diverse people, that he can tell us about them all, and see the point of them. --Mary Warnock, Listener Author Information"Isaiah Berlin (1909-1997) was one of the leading intellectual historians of the twentieth century and the founding president of Wolfson College, University of Oxford. His many books include ""The Hedgehog and the Fox"", ""The Crooked Timber of Humanity"", and"" The Roots of Romanticism"" (all Princeton)." Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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