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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. VERY RARE VOLUME! INTELLIGENT REVOLT and Other Papers by Dora E. HECHT ; published by Rider & Co, London, 1931. hardcover in dustjacket. 1st edition. A collection of a dozen thoughtful papers in which such subjects as Revolt, Self-Sacrifice, Egoism , Human Types, and various questions of Relation are discussed in an essentially modern and practical manner. Written with vim, gaiety, and culture, and in a style worthy of the old essayists, this book should appeal to all who seek to know themselves and who try to understand their fellows. In particular, parents, teachers. and others in positions of authority will find illuminating thought upon their several difficulties, while the mentality of contemporary youth is sympathetically and accurately depicted and its struggles and trials understood. Enlightened Egoism , Dreaming and Working, the Battle of the Types, and Problems give clear pictures of the more Personal of present-day difficulties, treating each with keen logic and real insight. Altogether a book for the progressively minded, one giving voice to many ideas which are " in the air", particularly among the intelligently rebellions of the present critical age. "Some jacket wear and tear, some paper browning, clean and tight".