theodore dalrymple, 0

In this, Theodore Dalrymple's second collection of short stories, he begins to let his imagination run. The absurdity of modern life is fully laid bar

A book that restores our faith in the central importance of literature and criticism to our civilization. In the twenty six pieces Dr. Dalrymple range

In Not with a Bang But a Whimper, Dalrymple takes the measure of our cultural decline, with special attention to Britain-its bureaucratic muddle, oppr

Theodore Dalrymple, almost singlehandedly, revived the languishing Essay and in so doing became Britain's answer to Montaigne. In this, his first fora

When I was a young man I thought that metaphysics was the most exciting (and important) thing in the world. I wish now that I had not wasted so much t

The word prejudice has come to seem synonymous with bigotry; therefore the only way a person can establish freedom from bigotry is by claiming to have

Kritiek op de sentimentele samenleving In dit scherpzinnige en geestige boek ontmaskert Theodore Dalrymple de verhulde sentimentaliteit die het pub

`Een heldere en geestige analyse.' De Groene Amsterdammer Hoe andersmans rotzooi ons leven bepaalt Onderweg van Glasgow naar Londen zag Theodore Da

<P>In dit scherpzinnige boek vol droge humor dringt Theodore Dalrymple diep door in het gedachteleven van moordenaars om te ontdekken waarin ze

Explains how European intelligentsia turned on Western civilization and paved the way for hedonism and Islamism to run roughshod over a once proud Eur

What is written without pain, said Doctor Johnson, is rarely read with pleasure. Rarely perhaps, but not, I hope, never: for the little essays in this

An entertaining new book by psychiatrist Theodore Dalrymple about the blind spots of our mind in general and those of eminent people in particular.