The Selected Letters of Bertrand Russell, Volume 2 by Nicholas Griffin

The Selected Letters of Bertrand Russell, Volume 2 by Nicholas Griffin

Bertrand Russell was a towering intellectual figure of the 20th century. In his 90, he also dictated more than 12 letters a day. This second volume of his letters written between 1914 and 1970 provides insight into Russell and covers most of his adult life. Russell was a philosophical genius but also an impassioned campaigner for peace and social reform and these letters reveal the astonishing range of his correspondence. There are intense personal letters to his lovers Ottoline Morrell and Colette O'Niel and in letters to Niels Bohr, Jean-Paul Sartre, Einstein and Lyndon Johnson, we are given a unique insight into Russell's views on education, war, and the Russian Revolution. Valuable for anyone interested in Russell, these letters also present a picture of 20th century history. The Selected Letters of Bertrand Russell: The Public Years 1914-1970 is also available in paperback from Routledge.

'These are not mere selection of letters; they are letters expertly chosen and brillantly annotated, with a running commentary situating each one in the complex circumstances of Russell's life..nothing else written about Russell's life, including recent biographies, comes near it in value...a remarkable document about a remarkable life.' - Literary Review, April 2001

'Pray silence for the sage of Plas Penrhyn - possibly the most celebrated English intellectual of the 20th century. At times one feels that if Russell had not existed, Nancy Mitford or Evelyn Waugh would have had to invent him.' - The Times

With the publication of the second volume of The Selected Letters of Bertrand Russell, Nicholas Griffin has completed a work of impressive scholarship. - Russell: The Journal of Bertrand Russell Studies

'Pray silence for the sage of Plas Penrhyn - possibly the most celebrated English intellectual of the 20th century. At times one feels that if Russell had not existed, Nancy Mitford or Evelyn Waugh would have had to invent him.' - The Times

'Immaculate edition ... If the centaur's hooves beat thunderously in these pages, they are also the echo of a passionate intellect at once destructive and creative, suffering and asured, whether in a Cambridge college or Brixton jail.' - The Guardian

'These are not mere selection of letters; they are letters expertly chosen and brillantly annotated, with a running commentary situating each one in the complex circumstances of Russell's life...nothing else written about Russell's life, including recent biographies, comes near it in value...a remarkable document about a remarkable life.' - Literary Review, April 2001

'Often, Booker Prize judges are shockingly disparaged. Having been one myself, I think I can vouch for their honesty. But how, this year, did they fail to recognise the genius of Melvyn Bragg's A Son of War ... And, if you overlooked it in the anti-liberal deluge, The Selected Letters of Bertrand Russell: The Public Years 1914-1970 (Routledge £25, pp704), edited by Nicholas Griffin. On almost every page the old boy scatters his enemies with a single swipe.' - Michael Foot, Observer Books of the Year

Nicholas Griffin is a journalist who has written four novels and three nonfiction works. His work has featured in journals such as The Times (London), the Financial Times, and Foreign Policy, among others. Ping-Pong Diplomacy was a finalist for the PEN/ESPN Literary Sports Writing Prize. With his wife and two children, he lives in Miami.

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ISBN 13	9780415260121
ISBN 10	0415260124
Title	The Selected Letters of Bertrand Russell, Volume 2
Author	Nicholas Griffin
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Taylor & Francis Ltd
Year published	2002-08-22
Number of pages	696
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