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Lucia Berlins liv var minst sagt brokigt. Hon föddes i Alaska och flyttade som liten till Texas. När fadern kom hem från kriget bosatte sig familjen i Chile, där hon lärde sig …
The Hedgehog And The Fox
'Brilliant. Searching and profound' E.H. Carr, Times Literary Supplement'When reading Isaiah Berlin we breathe an altogether different air' New York Review of Books'Beautifully …
Kväll i paradiset & Välkommen hem
”Magnetisk kraft som består”Sydsvenskan”Novellerna av den länge bortglömda amerikanska författaren är lika vackra, livfulla och smärtsamma som de tidigare /.../ Det är autofiktion …
Russian Thinkers
Few, if any, English-language critics have written as perceptively as Isaiah Berlin about Russian thought and culture. Russian Thinkers is his unique meditation on the impact that …
Crooked Timber Of Humanity
'Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.' Immanuel KantIsaiah Berlin was one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century - an …
Word Search Puzzles for a Road Trip
First Love
When the down-at-heel Princess Zasyekin moves next door to the country estate of Vladimir Petrovich's parents, he instantly and overwhelmingly falls in love with his new …
The Roots of Romanticism
In The Roots of Romanticism, one of the twentieth century's most influential philosophers dissects and assesses a movement that changed the course of history. Brilliant, fresh, …
Freedom And Its Betrayal
Freedom and its Betrayal is one of Isaiah Berlin's earliest and most convincing expositions of his views on human freedom and the history of ideas, views which later found …
The Hedgehog and the Fox
"The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing." This ancient Greek aphorism, preserved in a fragment from the poet Archilochus, describes the central thesis of …
Manual for Cleaning Women
Selected stories by 'literary genius' Lucia Berlin.
A Manual for Cleaning Women
Celebrating Fifty Years of Picador BooksThe world just goes along. Nothing much matters, you know? I mean really matters. but then sometimes, just for a second, you get this grace, …