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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...
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Eyewitness to History
— published 1987 — 6 editions |
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What Good Are the Arts?
— published 2005 — 6 editions |
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The Intellectuals And The Masses: Pride and Prejudice Among the Literary Intelligensia, 1880-1939
— published 2012 — 5 editions |
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The Faber Book Of Utopias
— published 1999 — 3 editions |
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The Faber Book of Science: Scientists and Writers Illuminate Natural Phenomena from Fossils To...
— published 1995 — 4 editions |
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William Golding: The Man Who Wrote "Lord Of The Flies"
— 5 editions |
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Pure Pleasure: A Guide to the Twentieth Century's Most Enjoyable Books
— published 2001 |
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John Donne, Life, Mind, and Art
— published 1981 — 6 editions |
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The Violent Effigy: A Study Of Dickens' Imagination
— 3 editions |
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Eyewitness to Science: Scientists and Writers Illuminate Natural Phenomena from Fossils to Fractals
— 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?
― John Carey, What Good Are the Arts?
“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
― John Carey, The Violent Effigy: A Study Of Dickens' Imagination
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