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CHARLES DARWIN
The Origin of Species
Abridged and Introduced by Philip Appleman
As much as any man in the modern era, Charles Darwin changed
man's thinking. His influence is still felt in each of our lives, and yet
a relative handful of educated persons have read his major work,
largely due to its excessive and now outmoded detail. Here, in what
Paul Moody, writing in Victorian Studies, has called "a masterly
condensation," is an edition of Darwin's The Origin of Species which
retains all of the substance but none of the excess. Philip Appleman
has cut deftly to the essence of Darwin's classic, losing none of the
continuity or flavor of the original, and at last making available an
edition which modern readers will not find overpowering. Professor
Appleman's introduction properly traces Darwin's life and influ-
ence in the world of ideas.
Philip Appleman is Distinguished Professor of English at Indiana Univer-
sity, where he was a founding editor of Victorian...
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CHARLES DARWIN
The Origin of Species
Abridged and Introduced by Philip Appleman
As much as any man in the modern era, Charles Darwin changed
man's thinking. His influence is still felt in each of our lives, and yet
a relative handful of educated persons have read his major work,
largely due to its excessive and now outmoded detail. Here, in what
Paul Moody, writing in Victorian Studies, has called "a masterly
condensation," is an edition of Darwin's The Origin of Species which
retains all of the substance but none of the excess. Philip Appleman
has cut deftly to the essence of Darwin's classic, losing none of the
continuity or flavor of the original, and at last making available an
edition which modern readers will not find overpowering. Professor
Appleman's introduction properly traces Darwin's life and influ-
ence in the world of ideas.
Philip Appleman is Distinguished Professor of English at Indiana Univer-
sity, where he was a founding editor of Victorian Studies. Long concerned
with questions of evolution and population, he is the author of The
Silent Explosion, co-editor of 1859: Entering an Age of Crisis, editor of
Darwin, a Norton Critical Edition, and Thomas Malthus's, An Essay on
the Principle of Population, a Norton Critical Edition. He is also a widely
published poet and a novelist.
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