TY - BOOK AU - Dalrymple,Theodore TI - Our culture, what's left of it: the Mandarins and the masses SN - 156663721X (pbk.) : U1 - 306 22 PY - 2007/// CY - Chicago, Ill., Towcester PB - Ivan R. Dee, Oxford Publicity Partnership [distributor] KW - Culture KW - Civilization, Modern KW - Social problems N1 - Includes index N2 - A collection of essays from the author of 'Life at the Bottom'. In these 26 pieces, Dr Darymple ranges over literature and ideas, from Shakespeare to Marx, from corruption to the legislation of drugs. His wide reading and extensive travels result in some very interesting stories within the essays ER -