Theodore Dalrymple's witty and thought-provoking essays explore the joys of intellectual engagement through literature, biography, philosophy, science, and history, enriched by personal anecdotes from his time as a prison doctor and psychiatrist.
What are the reasons for the decline of our culture? Theodore Dalrymple has spent a lifetime observing it close-up and personal as an inner-city GP and... Læs mere
When a country is covered in trash, what does that say about its culture? This passionate plea by The Oldie columnist Theodore Dalrymple is now published for the first time in paperback.
The New England Journal of Medicine is one of the most important general medical journals in the... Læs mere
An entertaining new book by psychiatrist Theodore Dalrymple about the blind spots of our mind in general and those of eminent people in particular.
First paperback edition of the acclaimed Hardback.
The first biting analysis of our obsession with sentimentality and why it will ruin us.
Presents a collection of essays that ranges over literature and ideas, from Shakespeare to Marx, from the breakdown of Islam to the legalization of drugs, and more. This book attempts to restore our faith in the central importance of literature and criticism to our civilization.
A book that restores our faith in the central importance of literature and criticism to our civilization. In the twenty six pieces Dr. Dalrymple ranges over literature and ideas, from Shakespeare to Marx.
Explains how European intelligentsia turned on Western civilization and paved the way for hedonism and Islamism to run roughshod over a once proud European culture.