- Addresses, essays, lectures, Biology, Collected works, Essays
Essays which appeared in the New England journal of medicine. His reflections and observations on man and nature, science and life, biology and life and on health and language.
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Spare, character-led, contemplative and classical in form.
- sparerichly built
- character-ledplot-driven
- contemplativerelentless
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
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About the book
- Author
- Lewis Thomas
- First published
- 1974
- Pages
- 180
- Publisher
- Bantam Doubleday Dell, Blackstone Audiobooks, Futura
- Editions
- 10
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780786108626
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“We are told that the trouble with Modern Man is that he has been trying to detach himself from nature.”
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