Hedgehog And The Fox

Isaiah Berlin''s classic essay on Tolstoy - an exciting new edition with new criticism and a foreword.

''The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.'' This fragment of Archilochus, which gives this book its title, describes the central thesis of Isaiah Berlin''s masterly essay on Tolstoy. There have been various interpretations of Archilochus'' fragment; Isaiah Berlin has simpl...