New Releases by Malcolm Muggeridge

A critical biography of the Victorian novelist & satirist by the noted critic & editor of "Punch." Although certain other critics have termed Butler a rebel against the constraints of Victorianism, Muggeridge maintains that Butler was, rather, the epitome of the Victorian writer. "A piquant study which ''debunks'' the ''debunker'' subtly & with psychological fairness, Mr. Muggeridge has achieved a thought-provoking, truthful, amusing portrait."--MANCHESTER GUARDIAN.

England''s "bad boy" essayist and critic uses his wit and iconoclastic talents to deflate a number of sacred cows.

This is a fictionalized account of Stalin''s Moscow. Muggeridge expresses his disillusionment with the dictatorship of the proletariat, and exposes the willful credulity of the many British and American journalists who refused to see the truth about Soviet life and misrepresented the facts to the outside world. Through adroit use of satire, he portrays them as they dutifully tour Soviet construction projects and witness staged trials, blithely overlooking starving citizens and unharvested crops, and all the while reporting statistics and writing stories in support of the utopian claims of the government.