Stranger Than We Can Imagine

Stranger Than We Can Imagine Making Sense of the Twentieth Century

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Publisher's Synopsis

'An illuminating work of massive insight' Alan Moore

'A sensational book. Heartily recommended' Rufus Hound


It is the century about which we know too much, yet understand too little. With disorientating ideas such as relativity, cubism, the id, existentialism, chaos mathematics and postmodernism to contend with, the twentieth century, John Higgs argues, cannot fit easily into a traditional historical narrative. Time, then, for a new perspective.

Higgs takes us on a refreshingly eclectic journey through the knotty history of the strangest of centuries. In the company of radical artists, scientists, geniuses and eccentrics, he shows us how the elegant, clockwork universe of the Victorians became increasingly woozy and uncertain; and how in the twentieth century we discovered that our world is not just stranger than we imagine, but 'stranger than we can imagine'.

Book information

ISBN: 9781780226576
Publisher: Orion
Imprint: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Pub date:
DEWEY: 909.82
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 352
Weight: 260g
Height: 132mm
Width: 199mm
Spine width: 23mm