The Green Stick (v. 1) (Chronicles of Wasted Time) - Tapa blanda

Chronicles of Wasted Timevvol 1 (the green stick)

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Descripción Paperback. Condición: Good. 316 pages. Cover wornIt was a fancy of Tolstoy's that somewhe re, buried underground, if you could but find it, was a Green Sti ck with the secret of everlasting happiness carved upon it. Malc olm Muggeridge's quest for the Green Stick began under the aegis of his father, an ardent pioneer Socialist, and ended abruptly in Russia in 1933 under that of Stalin. In between he had spent fou r unprofitable years at Cambridge and another four initiating Ind ian and Egyptian students into the mysteries of English Literatur e. Marriage to the niece of Beatrice and Sidney Webb introduced him to the top social elite of the Left, and a corresponding elev ation was attained when he found himself in the sacred corridors of the Manchester Guardian dispensing the pure world of Liberalis m at the behest of its great editor, C.P. Scott. Yet this did no t quite satisfy. So off he went with his wife Kitty to the U.S.S. R., where Aunt Beatrice and Uncle Sidney were icons, and the New Civilization they had proclaimed was taking shape - only to retre at, after a season, in through disillusionment. Mr. Muggeridge's account of this unfulfilled quest brilliantly recalls and illumi nate the post-World War I years. It is superbly funny, impeccably well observed and precise, with portraits of his friends and con temporaries shining like beams along the way. And beneath the wit and the epigrams runs a fierce love of humanity - disenchanted o ften, angry sometimes, despairing never. I have always loved wor ds, Mr. Muggeridge observes early in his book, and still love the m, for their own sake. For the power and beauty of them; for the wonderful things that can be done with them. Reading his words, t he reader becomes similarly beguiled - and hopes for other Chroni cles to follow. Nº de ref. del artículo: 1409j

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