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Books and Bees
On Sunday 13 October at 6.30 I shall be taking part in an event at the Cheltenham Literary Festival (full details on the Festival website). It will be chaired by Dominic Sandbrook. The other participants will be Lara Feigel, who will be talking about Doris Lessing's The Golden Notebook (and also about her own memoir Free Woman, Life, Liberation and Doris Lessing) and Laura Freeman, who will be tal
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A Little History of Poetry
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2020
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10 editions
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Eyewitness to History
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1987
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23 editions
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The Unexpected Professor: An Oxford Life in Books
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2014
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4 editions
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The Intellectuals and The Masses: Pride and Prejudice Among the Literary Intelligentsia, 1880 - 1939
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1992
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3 editions
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What Good Are the Arts?
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2005
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15 editions
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The Faber Book of Utopias
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1999
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6 editions
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The Faber Book of Science
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1995
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7 editions
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William Golding: The Man Who Wrote Lord of the Flies
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2009
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13 editions
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100 Poets: A Little Anthology
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2021
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3 editions
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John Donne: Life, Mind and Art
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1981
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12 editions
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“Book-burners try to destroy ideas that differ from their own. Reading does the opposite. It encourages doubt... reading releases you from the limits of yourself.”
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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.”
― What Good Are the Arts?
― What Good Are the Arts?
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