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The Pleasure of Thinking

A Journey Through the Sideways Leaps of Ideas

Theodore Dalrymple

The Pleasure of Thinking

The Pleasure of Thinking

A Journey Through the Sideways Leaps of Ideas

The Pleasure of Thinking

 

A light-hearted memoir from the prison doctor and journalist, describing his lifelong love of reading and thinking. 'Witty, always punchy and sometimes rapier-like' }Scotsman

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Beschrijving The Pleasure of Thinking

Theodore Dalrymple's witty and thought-provoking essays explore the joys of intellectual engagement through literature, biography, philosophy, science, and history, enriched by personal anecdotes from his time as a prison doctor and psychiatrist.

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224
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