Good in part

THINKERS have had some great ideas. Penguin have been inspired by the saying cheap is superior (£4-99 at present).  They have taken great ideas and called the series Great Ideas. Retrieved from each thinker’s major works are neatly distilled sections that have made him or her famous or notorious. I’m trying Darwin and Maistre. Both caused a stir in their times. Darwin opens saying that Nature we admire is constantly eating itself to recreate. Maistre, coincidentally, but not till his page 86, points out that every second violence is going on somewhere, and man is the greatest exponent.

     There is more to these two, and other ideas

Good to look at, very good to handle. See page 86 for the famous  Maistre passage

 are presented in aesthetically designed small editions, with embossed covers. Their spines (the books’, not the thinkers’) are thin, but skilfully coloured to catch the eye on the shelves.