A Terrible Beauty: A History of the People and Ideas That Shaped the Modern World by Peter Watson, Peter Watson
A Terrible Beauty: A History of the People and Ideas That Shaped the Modern World

Peter Watson, Peter Watson

A Terrible Beauty: A History of the People and Ideas That Shaped the Modern World

Peter Watson, Peter Watson

847 pages first pub 2000 (editions)

nonfiction history philosophy adventurous informative reflective slow-paced
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From the creation of plastic to Norman Mailer, from the discovery of the 'Big Bang' to the Counterculture, from Relativity to Susan Sontag, from Proust to Salman Rushdie, and Henri Bergson to Saul Bellow, the book's range is encyclopedic. We meet...

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