John Carey





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The bee season is turning out to be better than last year - it could hardly be worse. The oilseed rape is in full flower and the weather has been fine for several weeks. My over-wintered colony is foraging enthusiastically. I've recently replaced the old floor unit of its hive with a mesh floor from Thornes. I did this partly because it is said to be an anti-varroa measure, since the bees groom... Read more of this blog post »
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Average rating: 3.71 · 46,786 ratings · 1,509 reviews · 61 distinct works · Similar authors
Eyewitness to History
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What Good Are the Arts?
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3.63 of 5 stars 3.63 avg rating — 27 ratings — published 1981 — 6 editions
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4.4 of 5 stars 4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1997
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“...literature gives you ideas to think with. It stocks your mind. It does not indoctrinate, because diversity, counter-argument, reappraisal and qualification are its essence. But it supplies the materials for thought. Also, because it is the only art capable of criticism, it encourages questioning, and self-questioning.”
John Carey, What Good Are the Arts?

“The greatest hindrance to growth in faith is comfortable living.”
John Carey

“Dickens' hypocrites are the prime beneficiaries of his inventive genius. The heroes and heroines have no imagination. We could scrap all the solemn parts of his novels without impairing his status as a writer. But we could not remove Mrs. Gamp or Pecksniff or Bounderby without maiming him irreparably.”
John Carey, The Violent Effigy: A Study Of Dickens' Imagination

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