{"product_id":"saints-and-scholars-isbn-9780860915393","title":"Saints and Scholars","description":"In 1916, in a remote cottage on the west coast of Ireland, an unlikely collection of fugitives gathers. Ludwig Wittgenstein has run away from Cambridge and English insularity. His traveling companion, Nikolai Bakhtin (brother of the Marxist aesthetician), has been through the gamut of revolutionary sects and is now devoting himself to gluttony. Into their retreat stumble James Connolly, now on the run from the British government, and Leopold Bloom, fleeing \u003ci\u003eUlysses\u003c\/i\u003e and his broken marriage. Being men of ideas, they begin to talk. And then, being men of principles, they begin to argue ...“Sheer fun and sadness welling up out of critical intelligence.”—George Steiner, \u003ci\u003eSunday Times Books of the Year\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Ingenious, erudite and entertaining.”—\u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Wonderfully funny ... brilliant.”—\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Savagely comic ... Written with real passion.”—\u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eTerry Eagleton\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Cultural Theory and John Rylands Fellow, University of Manchester. His other books include \u003ci\u003eIdeology\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eThe Function of Criticism\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eHeathcliff and the Great Hunger\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eAgainst the Grain\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eWalter Benjamin\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eCriticism and Ideology\u003c\/i\u003e, all from Verso.","brand":"Verso","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302719017189,"sku":"NP9780860915393","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780860915393.jpg?v=1767736050","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/saints-and-scholars-isbn-9780860915393","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}