Isaiah Berlin
Praise for Personal Impressions
This is more than a collection of brilliantly perceptive portraits from the life of men as various as Churchill, Namier, Einstein, Pasternak. It is also a window into one of the wisest, most spacious and generous mi ...
Observer
This is an amazingly enjoyable book from a very gifted and fortunate man
Christopher Hitchens, New Statesman
Marvellously good reading... A quarter of the entire volume is occupied by [an] essay in which Berlin recalls his meetings with Pasternak and Anna Akhmatova in 1945 and 1956. This last essay, in particular, is simpl ...
Alan Ryan, Sunday Times
This is more than a collection of brilliantly perceptive portraits from the life of men as various as Churchill, Namier, Einstein, Pasternak. It is also a window into one of the wisest, most spacious and generous mi ...
Observer
This is an amazingly enjoyable book from a very gifted and fortunate man
Christopher Hitchens, New Statesman
Marvellously good reading... A quarter of the entire volume is occupied by [an] essay in which Berlin recalls his meetings with Pasternak and Anna Akhmatova in 1945 and 1956. This last essay, in particular, is simpl ...
Alan Ryan, Sunday Times
This is more than a collection of brilliantly perceptive portraits from the life of men as various as Churchill, Namier, Einstein, Pasternak. It is also a window into one of the wisest, most spacious and generous mi ...
Observer
This is an amazingly enjoyable book from a very gifted and fortunate man
Christopher Hitchens, New Statesman
Marvellously good reading... A quarter of the entire volume is occupied by [an] essay in which Berlin recalls his meetings with Pasternak and Anna Akhmatova in 1945 and 1956. This last essay, in particular, is simpl ...
Alan Ryan, Sunday Times