On Ugliness

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• Not a Pretty Sight

  It seems perfectly clear at first glance: beautiful and ugly are straightforward opposites. Beautiful Cinders, ugly sisters. Beauty, the Beast. Dorian, his portrait. So it’s not surprising, having commissioned Umberto Eco to write an essay and compil ... (read full critics)

  lrb published on Sun, 5 Sep 2010

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  i didn't actually read it. just scanned through the pictures. haha, am not in the mood of following the author's argumentation on ugliness through 300 pages. some of the pictures are quite scaring.

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• English Books
• Hardcover 456 Pages
• ISBN-10: 1846551226
• ISBN-13: 9781846551222
• Publisher: Harvill Secker
• Pub date: Oct 25, 2007
• Also available as: Paperback
• In other languages: other languages Livres Français, Deutsche Bücher, Libros en Español, Libri Italiani

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