Benefit of Doubt
essays
$48.00
- Paperback
600 pages
- Release Date
5 August 2003
Summary
‘To regard the human condition without excessive hope, but not to dispair of it, remains the sceptic’s warily optimistic recipe. As someone once said, ‘The man who has all the answers has not heard all the questions.’ To be confident that one has more questions than answers is not the least of the benefits of doubt’. Frederic Raphael In Frederic Raphael’s essays we meet familiar faces, known names, but the way he reintroduces them to us, with a ruthless clarity which seeks to conceal nothing,…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781857546354 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1857546350 |
| Author: | Frederic Raphael |
| Publisher: | Carcanet Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | Carcanet Press Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 600 |
| Release Date: | 5 August 2003 |
| Weight: | 334g |
| Dimensions: | 216mm x 135mm x 18mm |
About The Author
Frederic Raphael
Born in 1931, Frederic Raphael was educated at Charterhouse and St John’s College, Cambridge. He was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1964. The first of his numerous novels was published in 1956; his most recent, Coast to Coast, is published by Orion. He adapted The Glittering Prizes (1976) and After the War (1988) for television. He has written stories, biographies of Somerset Maugham and Byron, and screenplays, including the Academy Award-winning Darling (1965) and Far from the Madding Crowd (1967). He was the screenwriter for Stanley Kubrick’s last film, Eyes Wide Shut.
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