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The Way We Live Now

The Way We Live Now

Richard Hoggart

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Penguin Random House UK
Año de edición:
1996
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Historia
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9780712673518
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’This is his most powerful book since THE USES OF LITERACY and. . . deserves to be equally widely read. ’ SUNDAY TIMES Richard Hoggart is one of Britain’s most distinguished cultural critics. In this clear-eyed and controversial book he sets himself to take the temperature of the nation at the end of the 20th century - to test its blood for health and heartiness sample its imagination for largeness amd magnanimity conduct examinations of its intelligence judgement and moral sense. As always he makes us see how responsible we all are for the way we live now. ’Compelling very important’ NEW STATESMAN and SOCIETY

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