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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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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.
George Orwell
Orwell's famous and gripping allegory of Stalinism.
'All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others'
Mr Jones, the owner of Manor Farm, is a lazy drunk…
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"All articles were previously published in the London Review of Books"--Copyright page.
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Hitchens presents a George Orwell fit for the twenty-first century. –Boston Globe
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‘A good liar must have a good memory: Kissinger is a stupendous liar with a remarkable memory.’ - Christopher Hitchens
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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…
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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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…
Recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, feted by politicians, the Church and the world’s media. But what, asks Christopher Hitchens, makes Mother Teresa so divine?
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…
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…
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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…
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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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…
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.
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…
In this expanded edition of Hitchens’ slow motion citizen’s cardiac arrest of the Clinton presidency, he looks at Clinton’s influence on the 2000 election, Hillary Clinton’s run for a New…
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.
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 boldly puts the pieces of the Clinton puzzle together – and isn’t afraid to describe the result.
Christopher Hitchens’ iconclastic collection is the perfect companion to US-UK relations by the greatest Anglo-American writer of his generation.
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Courageous, insightful and candid thoughts on malady and mortality from one of our most celebrated writers.
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…
Over the course of his more than 60 years, Hitchens has been both a foreign correspondent in some of the world’s most dangerous places and a legendary bon vivant with…
From bestselling author and provocateur Christopher Hitchens, the classic guide to the art of principled dissent and disagreement
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Courageous, insightful and candid thoughts on malady and mortality from one of the world’s most celebrated writers.
For nearly four decades, Hitchens showed readers how to grapple with the principles of reason, tolerance, and skepticism that define the formations of civilization. Legions of readers, admirers and detractors…
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
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…
While on a book tour for his bestselling memoir, Hitch-22, in 2010, Hitchens discovered he had esophageal cancer. In these essays, he describes his struggle not only with the disease…
The acid, hilarious, confessional and provocative memoirs of the bestselling author of God is Not Great - a story of a life lived large.
Peter James
This book is for the millions of people who bought or listened online to Christopher Hitchens’ book God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything and hundreds of millions of…
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A compendium of never-before-collected quotations from #1 New York Times-bestselling author Christopher Hitchens on hundreds of subjects
Peter Harris
Christopher Hitchens was the most eloquent of the New Atheists. With great rhetorical polish and an encyclopedic mind for historical facts and literary quotations, he presents the case of anti-theism…
Collects the author’s reflections on the war on terror, the war in Iraq, and the state of the contemporary Left. This book includes a selection of commentaries on his work…
Brings together Hitchens’s reflections on the war on terror, the war in Iraq, and the state of the contemporary Left. This book includes a selection of commentaries on his work…
Larry Alex Taunton
A friend of the late Christopher Hitchens offers insight about the promise of faith and the dangers of pride in this one-of-a-kind look into the last days of the world’s…
Ashley Lavelle
How and why do so many radicals betray the cause? What implications does it have for left politics? Were the ex-radicals right to become conservatives? This book, the first of…
Hitchens, provocateur and contrarian on the Left, makes the news as often as he reports it. Caldwell is a fresh and objective columnist in the opposite camp. Together, they present…
Anita Thompson
A collection of outrageous and brilliant interviews with the author of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, selected and edited by his widow, Anita Thompson
