Clive James

born

January 01, 1939

gender

male

place of birth

Sydney, Australia

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avg rating: 3.94 | 251 ratings | 41 distinct works

	Cultural Amnesia: Necessary Memories from History and the Arts (Hardcover) by Clive James avg rating 3.89 — 110 ratings — published 2007 2 editions	my rating:
	Unreliable Memoirs (Picador Books) by Clive James avg rating 4.11 — 37 ratings — published 1981 2 editions	my rating:
	Falling Towards England (Picador Books) by Clive James avg rating 4.10 — 21 ratings — published 1986 5 editions	my rating:
	May Week Was In June (Paperback) by Clive James avg rating 4.09 — 11 ratings — published 1991 4 editions	my rating:
	Visions Before Midnight : television criticism from the Observer 1972-76 (Hardcover) by Clive James avg rating 4.14 — 7 ratings — published 1977 2 editions	my rating:
	North Face of Soho (Hardcover) by Clive James avg rating 3.86 — 7 ratings — published 2006 3 editions	my rating:
	Brilliant Creatures (Picador Books) by Clive James avg rating 3.43 — 7 ratings — published 1984	my rating:
	Glued to the Box: Television Criticism from "The Observer" 1979-82 (Paperback) by Clive James avg rating 4.40 — 5 ratings — published 1984 2 editions	my rating:
	As of This Writing: The Essential Essays, 1968-2002 (Hardcover) by Clive James avg rating 4.50 — 4 ratings — published 2003	my rating:
	Diana: H.R.H. the Princess of Wales (Hardcover) by Tim Graham, Clive James avg rating 4.25 — 4 ratings — published 1988	my rating:

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"The inevitable effect of a biographer's hindsight is to belittle the subject's foresight."
— Clive James (Cultural Amnesia: Necessary Memories from History and the Arts)

"Anyone afraid of what he thinks television does to the world is probably just afraid of the world."
— Clive James