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Christopher Hitchens
These seminal, uncollected essays by the late Christopher Hitchens showcase the notorious contrarian’s genius for rhetoric, and offer sharp rebukes to tyrants and the ill-informed everywhere.
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"An extended spa treatment that stretches tired brains and unkinks the usual habitual responses where Hitchens is concerned." --James Wolcott in his introduction An outstanding new collection, A HITCH IN…
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With a close and erudite reading of the major religious texts, Christopher Hitchens makes the ultimate case against religion.
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An outstanding collection of some of the best pieces that Christopher Hitchens wrote for the London Review of Books.
Ten years since the death of the world-renowned and controversial intellectual, this stylish edition is one of twelve commemorating Christopher Hitchens’ most wry and provocative works.
Hitchens presents a George Orwell fit for the twenty-first century. –Boston Globe
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Graham Greene
Discover Graham Greene’s blackly comic and timely espionage thriller, set amid the vice and squalor of pre-revolutionary Havana. ‘British Intelligence being sent up something rotten’ Daily Telegraph Wormold is a…
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Saul Bellow
A penniless and parentless Chicago boy growing up in the Great Depression, Augie March drifts through life latching on to a wild succession of occupations, including butler, thief, dog-washer, sailor…
George Orwell
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THE AUTHORATITIVE TEXT All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others. Napoleon and Snowball form an elite and take control for themselves, and the tyranny of…
Joe Sacco
The winner of the 2001 Eisner Award for Best New Graphic Album. Sacco spent five months in Bosnia in 1996, immersing himself in the human side of life during wartime…
Including Homage to Catalonia , Orwell’s profound experience of fighting in the Spanish Civil War, this title also contains Orwell’s essays, letters and pamphlets, which show his resolution to tell…
Meet Christopher Hitchens - one of this generation’s greatest, and most divisive, thinkers.
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Richard Seymour
Blistering and timely interrogation of the politics and motives of an infamous ex-leftist
Isabel Allende
Traces the lives of the Truebas family, starting with clairvoyant Clara de Valle’s summoning of the man she intends to marry, ambitious Esteban Trueba, and following their lives through which…
On November 26, 2010, intellectual juggernaut and staunch atheist Christopher Hitchens went head-to-head with former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, one of the Western worlds most openly devout political leaders…
During the US book tour for his memoir, Hitch - 22, Christopher Hitchens collapsed in his New York hotel room to excoriating pain in his chest and thorax. As he…
Courageous, insightful and candid thoughts on malady and mortality from one of our most celebrated writers.
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A celebration of writers and their encounters with politics and public life from one of our greatest critics.
Christopher Hitchens was an unparalleled, prolific writer, who raised the polemical essay to a new art form, over a lifetime of thinking and debating the defining issues of our times…
An enlightening and beautifully written introduction to the making, and message, of a book that was central to the foundation of the United States.
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Hitchens examines the dynamics of the relationship between America and Britain–the political ties and its many cultural manifestations–and explains why it still persists.
And Yet… gathers the previously uncollected essays of the late Christopher Hitchens into a final volume of peerless prose from one of the great thinkers of our times.
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Thomas Paine’s Rights of Man has been celebrated, criticized, maligned, suppressed, and co-opted, but Hitchens marvels at its forethought and revels in its contentiousness. In this book, he demonstrates how…
Beginning the 1990s as a darling of the left, Hitchens became more of an unaffiliated radical. As he shows in his reportage, cultural and literary criticism, and opinion essays from…
‘A good liar must have a good memory: Kissinger is a stupendous liar with a remarkable memory.’ - Christopher Hitchens
This compelling new biography of Jefferson is set amid the historical drama of the new nation’s struggle for independence. The author presents a portrait of a formative figure and a…
Hitchens takes on his biggest subject yet–the increasingly dangerous role of religion in the world. With insight and wit, he describes the ways in which religion is man-made, immoral, and…
From bestselling author and provocateur Christopher Hitchens, the classic guide to the art of principled dissent and disagreement
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‘I suppose that, if this collection has a point, it is the desire of one individual to see the idea of confrontation kept alive’ - Christopher Hitchens, Introduction
The acid, hilarious, confessional and provocative memoirs of the bestselling author of God is Not Great - a story of a life lived large.
A collection of the most important and controversial writings from the unapologetically provocative yet universally admired Christopher Hitchens.
Hitchens boldly puts the pieces of the Clinton puzzle together – and isn’t afraid to describe the result.
Christopher Hitchens’s personally curated New York Times bestselling anthology of the most influential and important writings on atheism, including original pieces by Salman Rushdie and Ian McEwan
