The World As I Found It
Book description
This “wicked, melancholy, and . . . astonishing” novel reimagines the lives of three wildly different men adrift in the 20th century: Ludwig Wittgenstein, Bertrand Russell, and G. E. Moore (Newsday).
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Why read it?
1 author picked The World As I Found It as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
This novel reads like a biography of Ludwig Wittgenstein, with detailed accounts of interactions with his Cambridge mentors, Bertrand Russell and G. E. Moore. Yet it's all fiction—defiantly so. Wittgenstein's personality is so quirky, and his path through life so improbable, that I found it hard to put down. Also, there are few other books, if any, that give you such an intimate look at the sex lives of Cambridge dons in the early 1900s.