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'Formerly, he thinks to himself, an artist took real people and transformed them into painted ones: how much finer and more satisfying is the modern method of assuming that people are not real at all, only self-painted, and of proceeding to make them real by giving them new selves based on the best-available theories of human nature...' In Nigel Dennis' 1955 novel - instantly acclaimed as a satirical masterpiece - a long-empty country house is reopened by Captain Mallet, his wife, and his dashing son Beaufort. Their task is to prepare for the annual summer conference of 'The Identity Club': a group of psychologists firmly of the view that people can be instructed as to who they really are and, consequently, persuaded to do well-nigh anything. "I have read no novel published during the last fifteen years with greater pleasure and admiration". (W.H. Auden, 1955). "One of the funniest, most intelligent and far-reaching pieces of satire". (Times).

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Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

• Full title: Cards of Identity
• Author: Nigel Dennis
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304
• EAN: 9780571259694
• ISBN: 0571259693
• ID: 04624158
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Weight: 366 g
• Dimensions: 219 × 134 × 24 mm
• Date of publishing: 18. February 2010

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