A Time of Gifts in 100 Words In December 1933 Patrick Leigh Fermor, aged eighteen, set out to walk from Rotterdam to Istanbul. This volume ends at the Danube and is compelling recovery of a middle-aged writer’s youthful zest and engaging curiosity. Handsome, charming, erudite, blessed with a gift for [Read more…]
The Ordeal of Change in 100 Words Where opportunities abound change releases energies, breeding confidence in self-reliant men. Without opportunities and self-reliance people turn to faith, pride, unity, Hoffer argues. Hoffer attributes the ferment of the West since the Renaissance to the intellectual’s hunger for recognition. Intellectuals, given authority, plan, [Read more…]
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