Libros de Theodore Dalrymple

Nuestra Cultura, ¿que Ha Sido De Ella?

Sentimentalismo Tóxico

• 208 páginas
• El autor, uno de los comentaristas más incisivos y menos políticamente correctos de nuestros días, desenmascara el sentimentalismo oculto que asfixia la vida pública. Bajo la guisa de esfuerzos encomiables como la correcta educ...

Embargo And Other Stories

• "The embargo was a success: the people were starving and the country was in ruins.." Extreme..

Midnight Maxims

• We all have those sleepless moments late at night when our mind races from one thought to another..

The Terror Of Existence

• The cultural death of God has created a conundrum for intellectuals. How could a life stripped of ultimate meaning be anything but absurd? How was man to live? How could he find direction in a world of no direction? What would be tell his children that...

Grief And Other Stories

• In this, Theodore Dalrymples second collection of short stories, he begins to let his imagination run. The absurdity of modern life is fully laid bare when taken to extremes. You will laugh through your tears.

Knife Went In

The Proper Procedure And Other Stories

• Theodore Dalrymple, almost singlehandedly, revived the languishing Essay and in so doing became Britains answer to Montaigne. In this, his first foray into the Short Story form, he proves himself a rival of Anton Chekhov. His many devoted fans will be...

Out Into The Beautiful World

• When I was a young man I thought that metaphysics was the most exciting (and important) thing in the world. I wish now that I had not wasted so much time on the imponderable questions of metaphysics but had used it to more worthwhile effect. Rather than...

Threats Of Pain And Ruin

• What is written without pain, said Doctor Johnson, is rarely read with pleasure. Rarely perhaps, but not, I hope, never: for the little essays in this book were written, I must confess, without much angst. In part this was because, in writing them, I had...

Anything Goes

• Theodore Dalrymple’s work focuses on the moral decay of modern culture and the pernicious effect of political correctness on society. Anything Goes is a collection of some of his finest work written between 2005 and 2009 for New English...

Spoilt Rotten: The Toxic Cult Of Sentimentality

Farewell Fear

• Farewell Fear is a collection of Theodore Dalrymple's finest essays written for New English Review between 2009 and 2012. His first such collection was Anything Goes (2011). Once encountered, Theodore Dalrymple has become for many of us a shared treasure-...

Not With A Bang But A Whimper

• In Not with a Bang But a Whimper, Dalrymple takes the measure of our cultural decline, with special attention to Britain-its bureaucratic muddle, oppressive welfare mentality, and aimless young-all pursued in the name of democracy and freedom. He shows...

Life At The Bottom

• Here is a searing account-probably the best yet published-of life in the underclass and why it persists as it does. Theodore Dalrymple, a British psychiatrist who treats the poor in a slum hospital and a prison in England, has seemingly seen it all. Yet...