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Moral Judgement
Originally published in 1955, this book covers most of the problems of moral philosophy but concentrates on two of them: the criterion of right action and the nature of moral …
New Light on Boswell
Boswell's Life of Johnson is established as one of the foremost literary biographies in the English language. This 1991 collection of essays, commemorating its bicentenary, …
Robert Burns
'In the later twentieth century Robert Burns was sorely in need of commentators to provide fuller analysis of a figure whose cultural reputation too often overshadowed his literary …
Moral Judgement
Originally published in 1955, this book covers most of the problems of moral philosophy but concentrates on two of them: the criterion of right action and the nature of moral …
A Study of Literature for Readers and Critics
A work by an eminent critic which addresses itself to values in literature, and attempts to answer the simple and elusive question, Why read a work of imaginative literature? …
Edinburgh: A Traveller's Reader
Edinburgh is a city whose history is written on its face. The Old Town on its crowded rock, sloping down from the Castle to Holyroodhouse, has not significantly changed its …
God and the Poets
First published in 1984, and now reprinted here with a new Introduction by Jenni Calder, this book encapsulates many of Daiches's key interests - ranging as it does from the Psalms …
David Daiches
David Daiches (1912-2005) was the first Professor of English at the University of Sussex. His distinguished career over more than half a century encompassed Universities on both …
Critical Approaches to Literature
Two Worlds
Foreword by David Daiches with an additional essay, 'Promised Lands'. In this captivating autobiography of his childhood and student years David Daiches recalls a unique period …
Robert Burns
Robert Burns was an eighteenth-century Scottish poet. This study by Gerard Carruthers examines Burns' work from the first publication of his poetry to his song writing and …
Scotch Whisky
Combines a social and economic history of Scotch whisky with personal tasting notes. The book looks into the histories of distilleries and questions stillmen, maltmen and brewers …