Volume 43, Number 19 · November 28, 1996
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
By Stuart Hampshire
Bertrand Russell: The Spirit of Solitude, 1872-1921
by Ray Monk
Free Press, 695 pp., $35.00
Bertrand Russell lived until the age of ninety-eight, and at the end of the six hundred pages of the first volume of Ray Monk's biography he is only forty-nine. Yet Monk is a pleasantly economical writer and at no point does the story drag or seem unnecessarily drawn out. The length is justified, for Russell was an articulate genius who followed several independent careers, each fully documented, even in this first half of his life.
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