The Bitches' Brew, or, The Plot Against Bertrand Russell
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Chesil Books, DORCHESTER, United KingdomChesil Books
AbeBooks seller since July 11, 2016
Condition: Used - Very good
£ 20.00
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Watts & Co., London, 1960, 1st edition; 8vo, pp [ii], 87; original red cloth, spine text in silver; corners and edges a little rubbed in places but a very good copy. Purcell was a prolific and accomplished writer, a sinologist, colonial civil servant, a lecturer at Cambridge on Far Eastern History, a specialist on Malaya, a poet and, as here, a satirical dramatist sending up British snobbery and the unco'guid. His rebuttal of the distaste of a certain type of snob for Bertrand Russell takes the loose form of "Macbeth", interspered with explanatory comment and brings in not only the three sisters of the title but the likes of the ghosts of Samuel Wilberforce and T H Huxley as well as numerous historic and imaginary figures including bellicose generals ("I have always believed in keeping the warlike spirit alive in peacetime"), prominent Christians such as Hilaire Belloc or others of imagined note such as the Archbishop of Tooting Bec. Russell, although widely acknowledged as the outstanding British philosopher of his time was also widely reviled by those more concerned with propriety than truth and here has a strong defender in Purcell whose other works in the guise of "Myra Buttle" are "The Sweeniad", a parody of T S Eliot and "Toynbee in Elysium".…
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- The Bitches' Brew, or, The Plot Against Bertrand Russell
- Author
- [Purcell, Victor] as "Myra Buttle"
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- Hardback
- Item weight
- 256 grams
- Seller catalogs
- Literature and Language - Chesil 3, Philosophy, Politics, History and Society - Chesil 1
Chesil Books
DORCHESTER, United Kingdom
AbeBooks seller since July 11, 2016
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