James Russell: Plato's Alarm Clock [2018] hardback ZCCON Christy Kinahan

Christy Kinahan

Tolstoy's genius and the power of his prose are made newly available to the contemporary reader

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James Russell: Plato's Alarm Clock [2018] hardback ZCCON Christy KinahanWe all like to think we are pretty smart. New medical advances seem to come along every day; space travel suddenly doesn't seem so difficult; self driving cars are no longer a thing of the future . but if we were stranded on a desert island tomorrow, most of us wouldn't know how to catch a fish or start a fire, let alone rebuild all that extraordinary technology we now rely on. The truth is that we're not necessarily more clever than our ancestors, we