The Life of Bertrand RussellThe eloquent and intimate biography of one of the most significant figures of the last century. Bertrand Russell was a British philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, writer, social critic, political activist and won the Nobel Prize for literature. Born into the high world of the Whig aristocracy, among people for whom Waterloo was still almost a personal memory, Russell lived to inspire the campaign against nuclear warfare. He was imprisoned in 1918 for his Pacifism. Ronald Clark, with access to a mass of material, provides a fascinating and graphic portrait of the man. There is virtually no aspect of Russell's long life to which something new - and often unexpected - is not added by this remarkable and incisive book. |
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... Alys, with blue eyes and nut-brown hair, willowy yet well covered. As reserved as her sister was flamboyant, Alys was resigned to the results. 'Thee can get on relying on thy charm,' she admitted, 'but I have got.
... Alys, with blue eyes and nut-brown hair, willowy yet well covered. As reserved as her sister was flamboyant, Alys was resigned to the results. 'Thee can get on relying on thy charm,' she admitted, 'but I have got.
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... Alys was just twenty-two, recently graduated from the Pennsylvanian women's college of Bryn Mawr. Alys and her family held out more than the attractions of a transatlantic lilt. Whatever their deficiencies, the younger Pearsall Smiths ...
... Alys was just twenty-two, recently graduated from the Pennsylvanian women's college of Bryn Mawr. Alys and her family held out more than the attractions of a transatlantic lilt. Whatever their deficiencies, the younger Pearsall Smiths ...
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... Alys; she was soon to become Mrs Webb, and quickly put Russell among her 'A's' – 'aristocratic, anarchic and artistic' – compared with the 'B's', among whom she included herself and her future husband, 'bourgeois, bureaucratic and ...
... Alys; she was soon to become Mrs Webb, and quickly put Russell among her 'A's' – 'aristocratic, anarchic and artistic' – compared with the 'B's', among whom she included herself and her future husband, 'bourgeois, bureaucratic and ...
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... Alys. Until their first meeting in the summer of 1889, Russell had been coddled in almost monastic seclusion. His sexual education, acquired in the manner of the day by schoolboy gossip and a delving into medical dictionaries, had been ...
... Alys. Until their first meeting in the summer of 1889, Russell had been coddled in almost monastic seclusion. His sexual education, acquired in the manner of the day by schoolboy gossip and a delving into medical dictionaries, had been ...
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... Alys Pearsall Smith from a dreamy delight of the future into potential wife. Throughout the spring and summer Russell saw a good deal of her, entertaining her at Cambridge and listening to her theoretical defence of free love. He also ...
... Alys Pearsall Smith from a dreamy delight of the future into potential wife. Throughout the spring and summer Russell saw a good deal of her, entertaining her at Cambridge and listening to her theoretical defence of free love. He also ...
Contents
Principia Mathematica | |
The New Romantic | |
A Long March Downhill | |
Start of an Experiment | |
End of an Experiment | |
The American Ordeal | |
A Member of the Establishment | |
The Last Attachment | |
Towards a Short War with Russia? | |
Into the New World | |
Ottoline | |
Enter Wittgenstein | |
Ebbing Tide | |
An American Adventure | |
Against the Stream | |
Into Battle | |
Colette | |
From War to Peace | |
TurningPoint | |
The Genesis of Protest | |
The Rise of Ralph Schoenman | |
The Enigmatic Friendship | |
Once More His Own | |
Private Memorandum concerning Ralph | |
Sources and Bibliography | |
Notes and References | |
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