The Man in the High Castle

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It's America in 1962. Slavery is legal once again. the few Jews who still survive hide under assumed names. In San Francisco the I Ching is as common as the Yellow Pages. All because some 20 years earlier the United States lost a war--and is now occupied jointly by Nazi Germany and Japan.

This harrowing, Hugo Award-winning novel is the work that established Philip K. Dick as an innovator in science fiction while breaking the barrier between science fiction and the serious novel of ideas. In it Dick offers a haunting vision of history as a nightmare from which it may just be possible to awake.

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An alternate universe where people are obsessed with an alternate universe.......2007-10-09

I have read only a few books in my life that are so disturbing that I have trouble completing them. Usually I don't have any trouble with serious novels and great literature, because I know going in that they have an agenda, a point to make- and usually not a pleasant one. But some books come at you sideways sneaking up with humor or escapism and sinking their talons into you. Catch-22 was one such book for me, and "The Man in the High Castle" was another.

By now it's a standard science fiction device to wonder what may have happened if things had gone differently in history. In fact, there is so much alternate history that it sometimes has a special sub-section devoted to it in the bookstore. But what most of those books concentrate on is the events: Roosevelt was assassinated, so the U.S. didn't enter WWII. The South won the Civil War, so slavery was never abolished. And so on. "Castle" has some of that, certainly. But it reads differently, because it concentrates on the effect of the new world on ordinary people. And needless to say the effect is not good.

In the world that Dick describes, the Japanese and the Nazis have won the second world war and divided the globe between them. The Japanese half is administered efficiently and held within the rule of law. The Nazi half is a charnel house of criss-crossing genocides; Jews, blacks, even Italians all exterminated with varying levels of prejudice, with no end in sight or comprehensible reason.

These events are in many ways remote from the characters in the book, all of whom live on the Japanese administered West Coast, or the "free" mountain states between them and the German East. But each character has internalized, to varying degrees, the horror that the world has become. Their basic thoughts are warped, and it seems as if some of them know it but cannot quite articulate what is wrong.

There is in this world a book of alternate history, a science fiction novel, that describes what the world might have been like if Germany and Japan has lost the war. I was expecting that book to mirror history as we know it, but of course it didn't - even the alternate history was gloomy, pessimistic, and wrong. The tragedy, as one of the German characters puts it, is that even to him this story of the defeat of the Reich seems more cheerful than the reality of their victory.

This is an incredible book, but a hard read. But ultimately I'm glad I picked it up, if only because it's good to be reminded from time to time of how good we have it here in the real world.

Americans can and will be a little fascist.......2007-09-10

Not a typical Philip K Dick novel, this one is tame compared to the other mind bending exercises we go though in a typical Dick novel. "The Man" is alternate history in which Germany and Japan actually win the war. Our protagonists are often led to their decision making using the Chinese oracle , I Ching and an alternate of the alternate history `The Grasshopper lies heavy." Overlying the Japanese versus German tensions is the daily lives of ordinary citizens and how they fit within ones caste. The Jews have changed their names and are in perpetual hiding, slavery is reinstituted for blacks, the Chinese are indentured servants, and the Americans are just trying to fit in.

The salient point for me was that Americans can and will be a little fascist themselves in order to survive. Artistic freedom is squelched and Japanese art collectors are more interested in relics modeled after the American past before World War II.

There is a lot going on "The Man", its different from Philip Roth's `Plot Against America' and Richard Harris's "Fatherland" which take on more of a macro view of fascism. "The Man" is subtler in its narration and takes a smaller microcosm of society

Wait... what?.......2007-07-31

I've tried so hard to give Philip K. Dick a chance. Really, I have. I started out by reading a collection of his short stories, but after reading a story about a man who is "caught" like a fish, I realized that I wrote better stuff as a 12-year old.

So I gave "The Man in the High Castle" a chance. I'd heard it was his best, his masterpiece. Instead, it was meandering and hopelessly dull. The characters are lifeless and impossible to like. The alternative-history scenario is interesting, but not incredibly insightful or breathtaking. Oh, and did I mention nothing happens?

I'm finished with Philip K. Dick - the next time I want to read a children's book, I'll stick to Dr. Suess.

Meandering, but well worth it.......2007-06-27

While I would not consider myself familiar with Philip K. Dick's body of work as a whole, I do claim to have some experience within the alternate history canon, and particularly with World War II.

As far as that aspect of the novel is concerned, it is a very enjoyable read. The backstory explaining America's defeat is plausible to a degree not often seen in this subgenre, and if Dick's dystopian America is a little bleak, that is explained as the direct result of American 'can-do.'

The constant references to the I Ching were heavy-handed at times, and the plot never really consolidates into a coherent picture, but all in all, this is a fascinating book exploring a very different postwar world.

Not a Commercialist Book.......2007-02-26

Yes everybody who gives this such a bad review wants the definite Hollywood ending that makes everything so clear, but No Dick's genius is way more complex than that and he wants you to think, to be a part of the ending and beyond, not just be some spectator being hand-fed in a movie theater(majority of the time).

I'm flabbergasted myself by the ending, was it all a dream? or are all of the main characters just mentally ill with double or triple personalities? Was the Man in the High Castle himself the author of this book? Mr. Smug himself not living in a castle after all, was he just a plant by the Nazi's themselves to write this book to keep enemies both inside the Nazi apparatus and out in the world too busy thinking what might have been to do anything more serious?

This Kommando if he had made it to the Man would probably have been very surprised by who/what he would have to struggle with. I don't think he was going there to assassinate anyone, other reason.

What about Tagomi and his soul-changing episode after killing the SD's with a fake American Civil War revolver, his leaving the normal world and then returning without suicide simply because of a pedecab being available, like one of those "temporarily insane" episodes in the courts. Why are people using pedecabs when there are trains/cars/rocket ships in wide use?

Fink and his jewelry, the new contemporary American work, being picked up for being a Jew, but also being let go because of some Japs temporary insanity. With Childan and his supposedly being a self-hating white man, but I envision a Japanese with identity issues, maybe being born here and never visiting the Home Islands or being banished/estranged with his family back in Japan, suddenly finding himself being proud and anxious to be a naturalized American at the end, leave the past where it is.

And of course the woman with her bizarre life in Colorado being estranged from her husband, was she the Nazi? Wanting to reconcile with her Jew husband, maybe who she killed was her Jew husband?

Now that's a book that makes you think, this is the most readable of Dick's books, most are like reading Joyce or Melville, hopelessly complex just to read.

Philip K. Dick: Four Novels of the 1960s: The Man in the High Castle / The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch / Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? / Ubik

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Interesting but not earth-shaking collection of 1960's sci-fi
Much-deserved canonization
Remarkable
The Definitive PKD

Philip K. Dick: Four Novels of the 1960s: The Man in the High Castle / The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch / Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? / Ubik
Philip K. Dick
Manufacturer: Library of America
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ASIN: 1598530097
Release Date: 2007-05-10

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Known in his lifetime primarily to readers of science fiction, Philip K. Dick (1928-82) is now seen as a uniquely visionary figure, a writer who, in editor Jonathan Lethem's words, "wielded a sardonic yet heartbroken acuity about the plight of being alive in the twentieth century, one that makes him a lonely hero to the readers who cherish him." Posing the questions "What is human?" and "What is real?" in a multitude of fascinating ways, Dick produced works-fantastic and weird yet developed with precise logic, marked by wild humor and soaring flights of religious speculation-that are startlingly prescient imaginative responses to 21st-century quandaries.

This Library of America volume brings together four of Dick's most original novels. The Man in the High Castle (1962), which won the Hugo Award, describes an alternate world in which Japan and Germany have won World War II and America is divided into separate occupation zones. The dizzying The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch (1965) posits a future in which competing hallucinogens proffer different brands of virtual reality. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968), about a bounty hunter in search of escaped androids in a postapocalyptic future, was the basis for the movie Blade Runner. Ubik (1969), with its future world of psychic espionage agents and cryogenically frozen patients inhabiting an illusory "half-life," pursues Dick's theme of simulated realities and false perceptions to ever more disturbing conclusions. As with most of Dick's novels, no plot summary can suggest the mesmerizing and constantly surprising texture of these astonishing books.

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dick novel sayer.......2007-09-30

The book is worth owning for the quality of the binding work. Fine paper, pages are well set, the binding is cloth and durable. The novels are also interesting, a combination of time capsule and science fiction.

Interesting but not earth-shaking collection of 1960's sci-fi.......2007-09-25

This is a collection of 4 of Philip K. Dick's sci-fi novels of the 1960's including Hugo award winner "The Man in the High Castle". The other three books are "The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch", "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?", and "Ubik" (see my review).

The Library of America has done the reading public a great service in printing collections of great American authors. This is the 173rd in the collection. I have read almost all of them. This one seems a little out of place, not because of the genre (I love science fiction and look forward to more LOA sci-fi), but because Dick is a second tier sci-fi author.

I know that there are Dick fanatics. But Dick's novels are dated, the characterizations are weak, the dialogue is stilted, and the plots often make no sense - and that's just what his admirers say.

Like all LOA offerings this is an excellent, low-priced hardback book that is well worth the money. Dick is still read-worthy mostly because several of his books have been made into movies - the best known of which are "Total Recall" with soft-core porn star and serial-groping Governor of California Arnold Schwarzenegger and "Blade Runner" with Harrison Ford. These movies are pretty good and "Blade Runner" was a great movie that has been influential. The problem is these movies are nothing like the books. The plots and characters have been changed by the screenplay authors, and I'm not talking a little bit but major changes in plot and character. So it really isn't fair to credit Dick with these movies that are loosely based, at best, on his works.

To really get the most out of these books and understand Dick's place in literature you need to understand a few things about the author. First of all Dick was nuts. Certifiably. In and out of asylum kind of nuts. His whole life. He was also into every drug you can imagine. His personal life was a shambles. His books never really sold well - as a matter of fact he was on welfare or bummed off of friends most of his life. No one knows whether anything Dick said was true or not. Many of his claims are clearly false. Some are not. He apparently was monitored by the FBI at some time, but then so were most malcontents of that period. But the prime suspect in a break-in of Dick's house was - Dick himself - as Dick himself admitted.

Dick liked to go to sci-fi conventions and use drugs. The 1968 Bay area sci-fi convention was known as "Drugcon" (Drug Convention) due to the prevalence of various mind-altering chemicals. This is important because one of Dick's novels main problems is that Dick's novels and stories often don't make sense.

And so we come to the four novels in this book. The first, "The Man in the High Castle" won the Hugo award of 1962. (The Hugo and the Nebula award are the highest honors in Science Fiction writing for you non Sci-Fi lovers) This novel is an alternate history if the US lost the Second World War. Interesting concept but the book's characters were particularly weak with none of them being particularly sympathetic. And the ending was a typical Dick ending where he made it possible that the whole book prior to that point may have been an illusion. The middle part was slow, but hey, it won a Hugo so give it a read.

The second book, "The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch" is a confused work that doesn't make sense as characters die and re-appear from various time-lines. Dick's favorite theme was "Is reality real", but this book has all kinds of plot inconsistencies. And any book that Yoko Lennon wanted to make a movie of is clearly suspect.

"Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep" is the third book and the source of "Blade Runner". The movie screenplay is more interesting than the book. Dick's female characters almost always tended to by tricky, sex-starved, and one-dimensional. The movie does a much better job with the female characters.

The last book, "Ubik", is by far the best of the lot, though it won no prizes. The constant making fun of capitalist, American culture is one of my favorite things in this book. See my review for further details.

Overall, these are interesting books with the faults noted above. I think Heinlein, Card, Asimov, and other Sci-Fi writers are better though.

Much-deserved canonization.......2007-09-19

One needn't have been a sci-fi aficionado to have recognized Phil Dick's importance in American letters. His work had a prescience that relied only partly on the imaginative constructs that are staples of the genre. Dick's looks into the future were always grounded in a profound understanding of the eternal present of the human psyche -- man's desires and capabilities and the tensions created by the failure of the latter to achieve the ambitions of the former.
The four works in this collection reflect that sensitivity. They also explore, in successively more comprehensive ways, the relation between man and God, how each is a reflection of the other. In a real sense, they are works of remarkable piety.
As its inclusion in the Library of America suggests, these novels are well worth the time of the reading public.

Remarkable.......2007-07-26

I read alot, mostly sci-fi. I have never read anything like these stories by PKD. He must have been really deep into these stories as he was writing them. Very enjoyable.

The Definitive PKD.......2007-06-08

In the 1960s, when he wrote these four novels, Philip K. Dick was not known, as he is today, as an acclaimed "literary" science-fiction writer and visionary who inspired many films. Since his death in 1982, his reputation has steadily soared, a little bit too late, and now this former genre journeyman toiling in obscurity has become the first sf author to be enshrined in a handsome omnibus volume in the esteemed Library of America series. Of course, I had to buy it even though I already owned multiple copies of all these novels. It is a genuine pleasure to read any of the LOA volumes, so lovingly produced they are. And this one especially so, compiled as it was by an author heavily influenced by Dick, Jonathan Lethem. You will never see a biographical chronology so interesting to read in its own right: we even learn that Timothy Leary called Dick during John and Yoko's bed-in and he put the famous pair on the phone to tell PKD that they wanted to film one of the four novels contained here, The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch. Incidentally, Lethem's taste is impeccable. Though Dick wrote no fewer than 21 novels in the 1960s (plus a couple of dozen more before and after), these are without a doubt the four best: The Three Stigmata, The Man in the High Castle, Ubik, and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? One could easily compile another such volume with four more extremely strong novels of this period: Clans of the Alphane Moon, Dr. Bloodmoney, Now Wait for Last Year, and Martian Time-Slip. However, the ones collected here are the ones I would pick, if I could have only four. They are all absolute classics and support many rereadings. I remember when in the 1970s, I encountered Three Stigmata for the first time and could not totally make sense of it, but I was intrigued. It was hallucinogenic, it was trippy, it was theological. A few years later I found myself seeking it out again, rereading with a passion, finally really "getting it," and then compulsively seeking out everything I could find by PKD. It took me years but I eventually tracked down every last out-of-print forgotten paperback. Since then all his works have been reprinted and made easily available. But my original "discovery" experience is why this LOA volume means so much to me now. The Man in the High Castle is perhaps the best alternate history ever written, a speculation on what life would have been like if the Germans and Japanese had won World War II. Ubik is a brilliant ontological quest into the very structure of reality. Do Androids Dream, the novel on which the film Blade Runner is based, is among other things a meditation on what it means to be human. These four novels have become like cornerstones in my own life's journey. For them to have been given this respectful and definitive publication is something that brings me a lot of pleasure, and would also, I think, have pleased Philip K. Dick.

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Man in the High Castle
Philip K Dick
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The Man In The High Castle (SFBC 50th Anniversary Collection)

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Philip K. Dick
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Bischoff keeps the sprit alive

Philip K. Dick High
David Bischoff
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THE HIGH SCHOOL OF THE FUTURE . . . "You've never wondered what the meaning of life is, have you?" asked my teacher. I shook my head. "I thought people who were depressed asked those kind of questions." "Okay. Then Quinn, I'll have to be more direct. Middlevale isn't Middlevale. Eisenhower isn't truly an accredited American high school. I'm not me, and you're not you!" "Then who are we?" "Victims!" Her finger shot in the air. "Victims of some sort of experiment! Some kind of psycho-social experiment perpetrated by scientists without principle, a government without morals!" Her dewlaps quivered with indignity. My head was spinning again. I tried to speak but I couldn't. "These ears . . . open them up and you'll find microchip monitors and controls. And judging by the kind of 'visions' we've both seen, I'd also say you'd also find some kind of mind-cloak device, adjusted to auditory and visual aspects of our brains, normalizing the odd things that may abound in this laboratory environment." I blinked. "You mean, it's all a joke?" "A bad one. A total farce." "You're telling me . . . You're saying that it's all a set-up? But how long has this been going on, then?" "Hard to say. Part of your memories could have been programmed." "Programmed?" I stared. "Like computers."

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Bischoff keeps the sprit alive.......2003-04-23

A friend let me read this book, it was one of the few books that I have read and had to go and buy a copy. Mr. Bischoff keeps true to the sprit of Philip K. Dick, but has done a story that stand on its own. I think and any person that enjoys the novels and short stories by Philip K. Dick will enjoy this book.

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The Man in the High Castle
Philip K. Dick
Manufacturer: Berkley
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
ASIN: B000KXIUOA

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Great Potential, Lesser Execution

The Man in the High Castle
Philip K. Dick
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback

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ASIN: B000NJIRSK

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Against this nightmare-come-true, one man, alone in a high castle surrounded by barbed wire, pits his solitary courage.

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Great Potential, Lesser Execution.......2007-09-02

(This review is based on the Library of America edition)

This novel deals with alternate history, one in which the Nazis and the Japanese Empire won World War 2. Roosevelt was assassinated, which led the USA to develop a different foreign affairs policy, and a failure to overcome the 1929 depression, which in turn made it so that the USA weren't ready to save the world from the Nazi menace.

There are 3 main characters in the book and these stories cross each other's path. Two of them are Americans, a third is a Japanese working in America. I would have given 5 stars for the two first thirds of the book, really, but then, things seem to cheapen somewhat. There's no real ending, and upon the author's own admission "I like to think of the ending as an open ending". It sure is open, as it isn't really one. Besides, I'm still somewhat confused about the ending and I think it doesn't do justice to the whole idea.

I had high hopes for this book, given the basic concept of alternate history, but in the end I find myself somewhat disappointed. As I said, the two first thirds are good, but I suspect it was so because I still had hope for things to get more interesting as the story went by. They didn't. And that's too bad.

Nevertheless, it was interesting to see what Dick did with this concept. There are some really good things about this novel, don't be too concerned with my giving it only 3 stars. It is a bit harsh, but I couldn't give more without somehow feeling like I'm forcing it. Good ideas alone are not enough, you got to execute them well too. So... I'm confused as to whether this is a good novel or not. Dick has a way of writing that you may or may not like. He uses a freestyle switch from third person to first person narratives; meaning that the characters infect the otherwise neutral narrator's voice without quotation marks or the likes. He also has a tendency to cut pronouns from sentences altogether. I'm not saying any of these are bad but they're a style one may like or not.

If you're curious, have a go at it; the novel is slightly over 200 pages and so it's not an excruciatingly long read to go through if you happen to dislike it.

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When WWII Ends Wrongly the I Ching May Rescue the Allies!

The Man in the High Castle: A novel
Philip K. Dick
Manufacturer: Putnam
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B0006AY1R2

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When WWII Ends Wrongly the I Ching May Rescue the Allies!.......2006-06-01

This book deservedly earned 1963 Hugo Prize.
PKD shows his master writing craft depicting an alternate world in which the Allies has lost the war with the Axis.
USA is dismembered into three different countries: one under the influence of the Germans, one under Japanese influence and a feeble third one in the middle of the other two.

The plot follows different threads showing how life is in this barren new world. Germans had expanded over Africa and carried there their "final solution" schema. In contrast the Japanese show more humanistic and restrained politic, but falling back in technological aspects, they are menaced with extinction by Germany unstoppable rise.

There are two other books inside this book which take up the center of the show. One the Chinese book of Changes (I Ching) and the fictional "The Grasshopper Lies Heavy" describing an alternate world more near to ours but NOT the same as ours. This last twist is a provoking "what if" inside another one, showing PKD style.

PKD describes his characters with a firm hand, giving them deep human traits. They strive to survive against dangerous odds. At the same time they try to discover the ultimate sense of life.
As usual with PKD writings a deep melancholic undercurrent traverse the whole story.

As I've seen in some other great sci-fi books, behind the surface of the current action lay powerful moral and ethic questions.
The end of the novel satisfactorily closes all threads.

When I first read this book in the early '60s, I was puzzled by the I Ching and started studying it and finally consulting it. A great experience to be sure.
This book is a real Classic with capital letter. Not only sci-fi fans may appreciate it general (open-minded) public too!
Enjoy!
Reviewed by Max Yofre.

To the High Castle, Philip K. Dick: A Life, 1928-1962

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To the High Castle, Philip K. Dick: A Life, 1928-1962
Gregg Rickman
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The Alternate History: Refiguring Historical Time

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The Alternate History: Refiguring Historical Time
Karen Hellekson
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Afternoon Tea!

Nice book on English Tea

Good things do come in small packages

The Best Resource for Tradition as well as Recipes!

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The London Ritz Book of Afternoon Tea
Helen Simpson
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Afternoon tea is the english meal-time institution, a social as well as a culinary event.

It is precisely this atmosphere which is embodied in the Palm Court Tearoom at the Ritz in London, which for many years has been one of the most delightful and traditional places to take tea.

The London Ritz Book of Afternoon Tea captures the essence of this traditional British occasion and provides the reader with all the Ritz expertize in the ceremony as well as over 50 recipes, illustrated with passages from Dickens to Oscar Wilde and charming drawings.

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Afternoon Tea!.......2007-05-12

what a great book! my idea of luxury is to attend afternoon tea in a great hotel-and now I can recreate some of the recipes (but not the harpist) at home. If you like tea, good food, and learning about creating a mood or an atmosphere for your guests, this little book is just great!

Nice book on English Tea.......2007-01-19

I enjoyed reading this book. It is a good starter book for those who would like to understand the ritual of English Tea and basic recipes of this time of day.

Good things do come in small packages.......2006-10-18

Lots of easy, great recipes. If for no other reason, you should buy this book just for the basic english muffin recipe and scone recipes.

The Best Resource for Tradition as well as Recipes!.......2006-08-09

A friend and I have recently begun taking tea and we love the true British and Victorian style of tea houses. I wanted to find a book for her that was a great resource on the history of afternoon and high tea as well as providing some recipes to go along with the information. This was the best book I found. No other goes into as much detail about the history of tea that this book does. The only downfall is that the only illustrations in the book are line drawings. There are no photos. Still, that didn't keep me from picking this book over several others that did have nice pictures, because in the end, the content of this book superceded any other.

Best of 4.......2005-01-05

I've recently bought 4 different tea books and this is the best one I have so far. There are a lot of the expected recipes for traditional tea time fare, with some minor omissions I felt. The print left something to be desired, some of it was blurred, but if you just want to buy 1 English tea book, this is it.

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The London Ritz Book Of Afternoon Tea The Art & Pleasures of a Taking Tea

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Helen Simpson
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