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This “wicked, melancholy, and . . . astonishing” novel reimagines the lives of three wildly different men adrift in the 20th century: Ludwig Wittgenstein, Bertrand Russell, and G. E. Moore (Newsday).
When Bruce Duffy’s The World As I Found It was first published, critics and readers were bowled over by…
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This novel reads like a biography of Ludwig Wittgenstein, with detailed accounts of interactions with his Cambridge mentors, Bertrand Russell and G. E. Moore. Yet it's all fiction—defiantly so. Wittgenstein's personality is so quirky, and his path through life so improbable, that I found it hard to put down. Also, there are few other books, if any, that give you such an intimate look at the sex lives of Cambridge dons in the early 1900s.
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