Download or read book Stalin on Linguistics and Other Essays written by P. Gray and published by Springer. This book was released on 2002-05-21 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Piers Gray was one of the most brilliant literary writers of his generation. These essays ranging from Oscar Wilde to Levin, from Shakespeare to pulp fiction, use the full resources of literary and linguistic analysis to produce a reading of European culture and society in the twentieth century. In his final posthumous essay On Linearity , Gray summons all his reading and knowledge to deliver his final judgement on life and death.