http://www.newstatesman.com/writers/v_s_pritchett en http://www.newstatesman.com/books/2009/06/orwell-eighty-thought-party http://www.newstatesman.com/books/2009/06/orwell-eighty-thought-party Thu, 28 May 2009 13:10:28 GMT V S Pritchett The original New Statesman review of Nineteen Eighty-Four

]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/society/2008/03/russian-berlin-book-herzen http://www.newstatesman.com/society/2008/03/russian-berlin-book-herzen Wed, 19 Mar 2008 12:00:00 GMT V S Pritchett Taken from The New Statesman 20 January 1978 Pritchett was a distinguished book reviewer and essayist at the New Statesman for more than 30 years. In this article, he reviewed the first of four volumes that brought together the scattered writings of Sir Isaiah Berlin. The book dealt with many of the influential 19th-century Russian intelligentsia – most notably Turgenev, Bakunin and Herzen – whose opinions on life and politics Berlin sought to explain to a western audience. Selected by Robert Taylor

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