Review of 'Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds' on 'Goodreads'
IMPORTANT!!! The book you wanT:~700 pages, has 12± original hand illustrations,all 16 ch.(I.e. '67 o '03 publ: London) 200pgs-BADincomplete. 400 p. Editions-TINY TYPE SUCKS! 1 Solution - a Kindle edition, some 0.99- beware-free Kindle v.-shortENED a few chapters
Charles MacKay
Extraordinary Popular Delusions and The Madness of Crowds
1.0 out of 5 starsVerified Purchase
Warning! Do Not Buy the WRONG Version of this Great Book
Reviewed in the United States on November 14, 2015
A. Popular Delusions is a truly great book. B. But be careful which of the many offerings you buy.
First off, many of the editions in Amazon are partial reprints of the original 1841 edition. Anything with 200 or so pages is badly incomplete. The book you want must have all 16 chapters.
Second, most of the print editions, especially those claiming about 400-odd pages, are complete, but have type so small as to severely limit …
IMPORTANT!!! The book you wanT:~700 pages, has 12± original hand illustrations,all 16 ch.(I.e. '67 o '03 publ: London) 200pgs-BADincomplete. 400 p. Editions-TINY TYPE SUCKS! 1 Solution - a Kindle edition, some 0.99- beware-free Kindle v.-shortENED a few chapters
Charles MacKay
Extraordinary Popular Delusions and The Madness of Crowds
1.0 out of 5 starsVerified Purchase
Warning! Do Not Buy the WRONG Version of this Great Book
Reviewed in the United States on November 14, 2015
A. Popular Delusions is a truly great book. B. But be careful which of the many offerings you buy.
First off, many of the editions in Amazon are partial reprints of the original 1841 edition. Anything with 200 or so pages is badly incomplete. The book you want must have all 16 chapters.
Second, most of the print editions, especially those claiming about 400-odd pages, are complete, but have type so small as to severely limit your reading pleasure. You must understand there is no copyright protection for the original English author so anyone can rip it off, and to make the most money many of these "artists" try to print as few literal pages as possible. The two editions I have bought (in 1967 at a bookstore and 2003 on Amazon), both published in London, have about 700 pages, including the dozen or so original hand illustrations. This is the print edition you want.
Third, to solve the type-size problem, acquiring a Kindle edition can be a good answer. It can also be priced as cheaply as 99 cents or even 0. But beware of what it contains as well. When I clicked on the Kindle version of a complete 16-chapter print version (the one on which I am writing this review) it turned out that the free Kindle version was shorted to just a few chapters, which I was able to discover only after I downloaded it . Fourth, the completely independent book, Gustave Le Bon's "The Crowd", originally published in 1895 is equally worth reading.
You'll love both books; make sure you actually enjoy them and get the whole things, as well.
If you choose the Kindle version, the following provides the correct arrangement and listing of the Volumes and chapters as found in the unabridged version: Volume I - National Delusions (missing in the Kindle version) The Mississippi Scheme The South Sea Bubble The Tulipomania Relics Modern Prophecies Popular Admiration for Great Thieves Influence of Politics and Religion on the Hair and Beard Duels and Ordeals The Love of the Marvellous and the Disbelief of the True (missing in the Kindle version) Popular Follies in Great Cities The O.P. Mania (O.P. And Thugs are missing in the Kindle but you probably won’t care.) The Thugs, or Phansigars Volume II The Crusades The Witch Mania The Slow Poisoners Haunted Houses Volume III - Philosophical Delusions (missing in the Kindle version) Book I - The Alchymists Part I - History of Alchymy From the Earliest Periods to the 15th Century Part II - Progress of the Infatuation During the 16th and 17th Centuries Book II - Fortune Telling Book III - The Magnetisers
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