Strange Days Indeed

Literature & Fiction

Wheen, Francis

History & Criticism

Fourth Estate Ltd.

Vintage Book of Cats

RANDOM HOUSE UK

A mysterious, influential and often extremely dubious man of affairs, Tom Driberg embodied many of the contradictions and ambiguities of his time. At Oxford, he was the friend of Auden, Betjeman, Hugh Gaitskell and his old school-chum, Evelyn Waugh; working on Beaverbrook's Express in the Thirties, he invented the modern gossip column; a close friend of Burgess and Maclean, he was widely suspected of being a double-agent, working for both British Intelligence and the KGB. As Chairman of the Labour Party, he was closely involved with the Wilson government, and an intimate of Nye Bevan and Richard Crossman; a keen High churchman, he was even better known as a "cottaging" habitue of London lavatories; a stalwart socialist, on the far left of the Labour Party, he was also an ardent socialite with a Georgian mansion in Essex.

Tom Driberg: His Life and Indiscretions

Biographies & Memoirs

Pan Books

The first major biography of Karl Marx since the end of the Cold War provides an in-depth look at the man and his work, painting a picture not of a socialist ogre, but of a fascinating, ultimately humane man who lived both at the center and on the fringes of his age. 15,000 first printing. First serial, Talk.

Karl Marx: A Life

Historical

W.W. Norton & Co., Inc.

"A brilliant book, by a superb author, about a necessary man."―Christopher Hitchens In this stunning book, the first comprehensive biography of Marx since the end of the Cold War, Francis Wheen gives us not a socialist ogre but a fascinating, ultimately humane man, while still examining the criticisms of his detractors. A study in contradictions, Karl Marx was at once a reserved scholar, a fiery agitator, and a gregarious socialite, while his intellect and ideology were once described as "Rousseau, Voltaire, and Hegel fused into one person." He lived both at the center and on the fringes of his age, and his oratory and writing continue to change the contemporary world. In his entertaining, offbeat style, Wheen offers an eminently readable biography of one of history's most unforgettable figures. "Wheen's portrait of Marx's life is artfully shaped and makes delectable reading."―New York Times "A magnificent portrait of Marx.... Bravo!"―A. N. Wilson "[E]xpertly researched, admirably objective, eminently humane, and plenty entertaining."―Boston Book Review

Leaders & Notable People

W.W.Norton&Company

Chatto&Windus

CHATTO BOOK OF CATS

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Pets & Animal Care

The sixties: A fresh look at the decade of change

Century Pub. in association with Channel Four Television Co

Television

Business & Money

David&Charles

In vivid detail, Francis Wheen tells the story of Das Kapital and Karl Marx’s twenty-year struggle to complete his unfinished masterpiece. Born in a two-room flat in London’s Soho amid political squabbles and personal tragedy, the first volume of Das Kapital was published in 1867, to muted praise. But after Marx’s death, the book went on to influence thinkers, writers, and revolutionaries, from George Bernard Shaw to V. I. Lenin, changing the direction of twentieth-century history. Wheen’s captivating, accessible book shows that, far from being a dry economic treatise, Das Kapital is like a vast Gothic novel whose heroes are enslaved by the monster they created: capitalism. Furthermore, Wheen argues, as long as capitalism endures, Das Kapital demands to be read and understood.

Marx's Das Kapital: A Biography (Books That Changed the World)

GROVE PRESS

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