BOOK REVIEWS & RECOMENDATIONS

I love books.  I have an extensive library and read voraciously.  Years ago I started reviewing books for Amazon.  I stopped doing that because I realized I was feeding a machine that was undermining local booksellers and compromising a way of life.  My practice today is to almost exclusively buy books through local bookstores.  If I read a review of a book I like or someone recommends something interesting, I email the title to the owner of my local book shop, Jessica's Book Nook, and he orders it for me.  I pay a little more for a book - but believe me it is worth it.

The goal of this section is to direct people interested in Shelley and his circle to books of interest. I will try to review as many of them as I can, but in other instances I may simply point you to books of outstanding importance that fall into the category of essential reading.

Eleanor Marx Speaks!!! The Revolutionary Percy Shelley
Paul Foot, The Revolutionary Shelley, Eleanor Marx Graham Henderson Paul Foot, The Revolutionary Shelley, Eleanor Marx Graham Henderson

Eleanor Marx Speaks!!! The Revolutionary Percy Shelley

"We claim him as a Socialist." With these words Eleanor Marx concluded her 1888 address on the politics of Percy Bysshe Shelley. I strongly recommend this essay to those who want to understand the Real Percy Bysshe Shelley. Marx offers a perceptive, shrewd analysis of the political philosophy that underpinned Shelley's thought.  And she offered it in 1888 at a time when English society was doing its level best to wipe out all memory of Shelley's radicalism. This happened almost exactly at the time referred to in Paul Foot's speech which you can read here.

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