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Francis Wheen's comic portrait of one of the 20th century's great characters, Tom Driberg: wit, parliamentarian, serial cottager, alleged communist spy and friend to the Kray brothers. There are few people for whom marriage was so ill-suited yet well attended: at Tom Driberg's were cabinet ministers and mobsters, Betjeman and Waugh, but it was Osbert Lancaster who commemorated the sheeer extraordinairness of the occasion, and with it celebrate...

In the midst of literary hackery and the network of debts and allegiances that is literary London, one repository of fearless literary criticism stands out - the literary review page of "Private Eye". In this book, Francis Wheen has assembled, in thematic order, a collection of criticism of books.

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No-one suspected a thing when a new figure appeared on the London academic scene. Charlotte Bach was a former lecturer at the University of Budapest, and had a new theory of sex and evolution which was soon being heralded as one of the greatest intellectual advances of the 20th century.

In 1971 a curious character appeared on the London academic scene. Charlotte Bach was a former lecturer at the University of Budapest and expounded a new theory of sex and evolution. Here, Francis Wheen unravels the bizarre life story of this elusive Hungarian with a genius for deception.

In this brilliant book, Karl Marx biographer Francis Wheen tells the story of Das Kapital and Marx's twenty-year struggle to complete his unfinished masterpiece. Wheen shows that, far from being a dry economic treatise, Das Kapital is like a vast Gothic novel whose heroes are enslaved by the monster they created: capitalism.

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A savagely witty account of the last quarter century, when despite a great leap forward in technology there has been a huge, regressive collapse in our ability to think straight--so that everything has begun to stop making sense

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Kac kisi Karl Marxi büyük yazarlarin ve sanatcilarin bir listesine dahil etmeyi düsünürdü Postmodern cagimizda bile Das Kapitalin parcali anlatisi ve radikal kopusu bircok potansiyel okur tarafindan bicimsizlik ve anlasilmazlik olarak yanlis anlasiliyor. Benim kitabimin ana hedefi bu okurlarin en azindan bir kismini yeniden bakmaya ikna etmektir Beethoven, Goya ya da Tolstoy ile ugrasmaya istekli olan herkes Das Kapitalin bir okumasindan yeni ...

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If the 1960s were a wild weekend and the 1980s a hectic day at the office, the 1970s were a long Sunday evening in winter, with cold leftovers for supper and a power cut expected at any moment.'A jaw-droppingly brilliant account of how the seventies was defined by mass paranoia told with Francis Wheen's wonderfully acute sense of the absurd.

In this brilliant book, Karl Marx biographer Francis Wheen tells the story of Das Kapital and Marx's twenty-year struggle to complete his unfinished masterpiece. Wheen shows that, far from being a dry economic treatise, Das Kapital is like a vast Gothic novel whose heroes are enslaved by the monster they created: capitalism.

In vivid detail, Wheens captivating, accessible book shows that, far from being a dry economic treatise, "Das Kapital" is like a vast Gothic novel whose heroes are enslaved by the monster they created: capitalism.

In this stunning book, the first comprehensive biography of Marx since the end of the Cold War, Francis Wheen gives us not a socialist ogre but a fascinating, ultimately humane man, while still examining the criticisms of his detractors. A study in contradictions, Karl Marx was at once a reserved scholar, a fiery agitator, and a gregarious socialite, while his intellect and ideology were once described as "Rousseau, Voltaire, and Hegel fused i...