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Flourishing

Letters 1928 - 1946

Isaiah Berlin author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Vintage

Published:5th May '05

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Flourishing is the first volume of a keenly awaited edition of the marvellously readable and entertaining letters of the most famous English intellectual of the last century.

Berlin's letters are marvellously accessible, and as entertaining. In America, during the war, he writes a regular telegram to his anxious parents, often saying just 'Flourishing'; the word fits not only his wartime experience, but the whole of his early life, vividly displayed in this book in all its multi-faceted delightfulness.Berlin's letters are marvellously accessible, and as entertaining. During the two decades covered here his personality and career grow and bloom. In America, during the war, he writes a regular telegram to his anxious parents, often saying just 'Flourishing'; the word fits not only his wartime experience, but the whole of his early life, vividly displayed in this book in all its multi-faceted delightfulness.

Isiah Berlin was one of the great letter-writers of the twentieth century: witty, indiscreet, passionate, wise and unbuttoned. He also lived through extraordinary moments of twentieth-century history, and these letters capture those moments -- Michael Ignatieff, author of Isiah Berlin: A Life
Reading this glorious collection of letters is, predictably, a heady experience... rich and irresistable -- Simon Schama * New Republic *
Incredibly readable and entertaining * Good Book Guide *
Full of insights about everyone and everything. He was an alpha-level gossip, the genius kind... a conversation of wit and substance that you never want to end -- Michael Pye * Scotsman *

ISBN: 9780712635653

Dimensions: 234mm x 152mm x 61mm

Weight: 1087g

816 pages