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' This new anthology is as entrancing as the lost gardens of Heligan
- I cannot imagine an anthology anyone would enjoy more.'
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Bidding for love can be a costly business...

Flora Stanza has sub-let her London life in a bid to join the family

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' Life is not worth living unless one can be indiscreet to intimate friends, ' wrote Isaiah Berlin to a correspondent. Flourishing inaugurates a keenly awaited edition of Berlin's letters that might well adopt this remark as an epigraph. Berlin's life was enormously worth living, both for himself & for us; & fortunately he said a great deal to his friends on paper as well as in person. The indiscretions
- only part of the story, of course
- are not those of Everyman. Berlin is one of the towering intellectual figures of the twentieth century, the most famous English thinker of the post-war era, & the focus of growing interest & discussion. Above all, he is one of the best modern exponents of the disappearing art of letter-writing. When this volume opens Berlin is eighteen, a pupil at St Paul's School, London. He becomes an undergraduate at Oxford, then a Fellow of All Souls, where he writes his famous biography of Karl Marx. He then moves to New College to teach philosophy, & after the outbreak of the World War 2 sails to America in somewhat mysterious circumstances with Guy Burgess. He stays in the USA, working for the British Government, until July 1946, when he returns to Oxford. Berlin's letters are marvellously accessible, & as entertaining as a novel. During the two decades covered here we see his personality & career growing & blooming. In America he writes a regular telegram to his anxious parents, often saying just ' Flourishing'; the word is entirely apt, not only for his wartime experience, but for the whole of his early life, vividly displayed in this book in all its multi-faceted delightfulness.

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' Life is not worth living unless one can be indiscreet to intimate friends, ' wrote Isaiah Berlin to a correspondent. Flourishing inaugurates a keenly awaited edition of Berlin's letters that might well adopt this remark as an epigraph. Berlin's life was enormously worth living, both for himself & for us; & fortunately he said a great deal to his friends on paper as well as in person. The indiscretions, thought engaging, are of course only part of the story. Berlin is one of the towering intellectual figures of the twentieth century, & the focus of growing interest & discussion. Above all, he is one of the best modern exponents of the disappearing art of letter-writing. When this volume opens Berlin is eighteen, a pupil at St Paul's School in London. He becomes an undergraduate at Oxford, then a Fellow of All Souls, where he writes his celebrated biography of Karl Marx. When that is complete he moves to New College to teach philosophy, & after the outbreak of the Second World War sails to America in somewhat mysterious circumstances with Guy Burgess. He stays in the USA, working for the British Government (apart from visits home & his famous trip to the Soviet Union in 1945-6) until April 1946, when he returns to Oxford, & the volume closes. Berlin's letters are marvellously accessible, & as entertaining as a novel. During the two decades covered here we see his personality & career growing & blooming. In America he writes a regular telegram to his anxious parents, often saying just ' Flourishing'; the word is entirely apt, not only for his wartime experience, but for the whole of his early life, vividly displayed in this book in all its multi-faceted delightfulness. ...