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  • The Pleasure of Thinking
    Theodore Dalrymple
    In The Pleasure of Thinking, Theodore Dalrymple embarks on an entertaining intellectual journey. With his characteristic wit, Dalrymple navigates the quirky realms of literature, biography, philosophy, science, and history, highlighting the satisfaction that comes with reflecting on life’s questions. This book is for anyone who delights in the intricacies of the human mind and ...
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    19,48 €

  • Nothing but Wickedness
    Theodore Dalrymple
    Nothing But Wickedness delves into society’s subtle-and some not so subtle-transgressions that contribute to the decline of our culture. Theodore Dalrymple, drawing on his extensive experience as an inner-city GP and prison psychiatrist, examines the underlying factors that drive societal behaviours and self-deception. The book covers a range of thought-provoking topics, includ...
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    18,21 €

  • Nothing but Wickedness
    Theodore Dalrymple
    Nothing But Wickedness delves into society’s subtle-and some not so subtle-transgressions that contribute to the decline of our culture. Theodore Dalrymple, drawing on his extensive experience as an inner-city GP and prison psychiatrist, examines the underlying factors that drive societal behaviours and self-deception. The book covers a range of thought-provoking topics, includ...
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    21,11 €

  • Spoilt Rotten
    Theodore Dalrymple
    In this perceptive and witty book, Theodore Dalrymple unmasks the sentimentality that is suffocating modern life. Under the multiple guises of raising children well, caring for the under-privileged, fighting poverty, assisting the less able, and doing good generally, we are achieving quite the opposite. Drawing on his long experience as a doctor, as well as work with thousands ...
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    20,09 €

  • Ramses
    Theodore Dalrymple
    Ramses was the best dog in the world, the cleverest, friendliest, most expres­sive, understanding, amusing dog that ever was, and it was only a happy coincidence that he happened to be ours. ...
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    12,27 €

  • The Terror of Existence
    Francis Kenneth / Theodore Dalrymple
    The cultural death of God has created a conundrum for intellectuals. How could a life stripped of ultimate meaning be anything but absurd? How was man to live? How could he find direction in a world of no direction? What would be tell his children that could make their lives worthwhile? What is the ground of morality?Existentialism is the literary cri de coeur resulting from th...
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    16,32 €

  • Grief and Other Stories
    Theodore Dalrymple
    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 bare when taken to extremes. You will laugh through your tears. ***Satire is prophecy.— Theodore Dalrymple  3 ...
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    16,08 €

  • The Proper Procedure and Other Stories
    Theodore Dalrymple
    Theodore Dalrymple, almost singlehandedly, revived the languishing Essay and in so doing became Britain’s answer to Montaigne. In this, his first foray into the Short Story form, he proves himself a rival of Anton Chekhov. His many devoted fans will be delighted.--------------------------------Some truth can be told only in the form of fiction. That is why I chose to write thes...
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    15,44 €

  • Out Into The Beautiful World
    Theodore Dalrymple
    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 time on the imponderable questions of metaphysics but had used it to more worthwhile effect. Rather than study philosophy, I should have studied insects. In the little essays that follow, I have no grand theory to prove, no singl...
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    14,74 €

  • Threats of Pain and Ruin
    Theodore Dalrymple
    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 book were written, I must confess, without much angst. In part this was because, in writing them, I had no thesis to prove, no axe to grind, except that the world is both infinitely interesting and amusing, and provides us with a...
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    14,65 €

  • Farewell Fear
    Theodore Dalrymple
    Farewell Fear is a collection of Theodore Dalrymple's finest essays written for New English Review between 2009 and 2012. His first such collection was Anything Goes (2011). Once encountered, Theodore Dalrymple has become for many of us a shared treasure-the cultured, often mordantly funny social commentator who was for many years a psychiatrist at a British prison. This colle...
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    14,60 €

  • Anything Goes
    Theodore Dalrymple
    Theodore Dalrymple’s work focuses on the moral decay of modern culture and the pernicious effect of political correctness on society. Anything Goes is a collection of some of his finest work written between 2005 and 2009 for New English Review.A note on the cover from New English Review Press: This jazz age photograph by Alfred Cheney Johnston reflects the classical conviction ...
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    15,86 €

  • Not With a Bang But a Whimper
    Theodore Dalrymple
    In Not with a Bang But a Whimper, Dalrymple takes the measure of our cultural decline, with special attention to Britain-its bureaucratic muddle, oppressive welfare mentality, and aimless young-all pursued in the name of democracy and freedom. He shows how terrorism and the growing numbers of Muslim minorities have changed our public life. Also here are Mr. Dalrymple’s trenchan...
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    14,59 €

  • Not With a Bang But a Whimper
    Theodore Dalrymple
    Theodore Dalrymple’s brilliant new collection of writings follows on the extraordinary success of his earlier books, Life at the Bottom and Our Culture, What’s Left of It. No writer today is more adept and incisive in exploring the state of our culture and the ideas that are changing our ways of life. In Not with a Bang But a Whimper, he takes the measure of our cultural declin...
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    22,91 €

  • Our Culture, What’s Left of It
    Theodore Dalrymple
    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 import...
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    14,00 €