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“... are lonely and drunk a lot of the time. I no longer remember what made me write about James Jones, ‘I hope he kills himself as soon as it does not damage his or your sales’ (this was to Charlie Scribner). ‘If you give him a literary tea you might ask him to drain a bucket of snot and then suck the puss out of a dead nigger’s ear’ (this is page ...”

“... was born of a passionate relationship with a schoolfriend called Edward Silberstein. He was, Ernest Jones writes in his biography of Freud, Freud’s bosom friend in school days, and they spent together every hour they were not in school. They learned Spanish together and developed their own mythology and private words, mostly derived from Cervantes ...”

“... nature of the Party. Clement Attlee was a Fabian socialist from a middle-class background; Ernest Bevin, born into poverty in rural Somerset, had created the Transport and General Workers Union; and Herbert Morrison, the shop assistant straight out of Mr Polly, had risen to influence through local government in London, including the leadership of the ...”

“... But none of this fictional skulduggery can quite compare with a story Luckhurst tells about Ernest Wallis Budge, the real-life Keeper of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities at the British Museum, who in 1886 gathered eight hundred skulls from mummy pits in Aswan and got round the ban on the export of ancient artefacts by reclassifying them as ‘bone ...”

“... admit that it is not entirely proof against theoretical objections’; and, as Freud’s follower Ernest Jones wrote, ‘no biological observation can be found to support the idea of a death instinct, which contradicts all biological principles.’ The death instinct, I want to suggest, was Freud’s way of broaching the part of the self that wants, at ...”

“... Melanie Klein, bereft of intellectual support in Berlin after the death of Karl Abraham, accepted Ernest Jones’s invitation (mediated by Alix Strachey) and settled in London, where her ideas gained a sympathetic hearing. When in 1927 Anna Freud published a book on child analysis, it was sharply criticised by Klein, whose doubts were shared by other ...”

“... story. Lockhart had never heard of the man the Russians referred to as ‘Relli’, but he asked Ernest Boyce, Britain’s spy chief in Moscow, who told him that Sidney Reilly had been recently recruited by the Secret Intelligence Service. Lockhart and Reilly met soon afterwards, and Lockhart later described the encounter in his memoirs: ‘Although he was ...”

“... Reynolds’s intention is not to dissect but to dramatise, to re-create what it felt like to be Ernest Hemingway. That he does with uncommon authenticity. But he offers little explanation other than a few murmurs about the ‘genetic inheritance of cyclical depression’ or the ‘old American story of promise fulfilled ... the Dream and its dark ...”

“... case, like Dora’s, unresolved. ‘Freud – Freude’. Helped by a compositor’s reckless id, Ernest Gellner goes further and writes of ‘Anna Fraud (once described by her father as his only son)’. If the parapraxis is unjust, the parenthesis, like much in The Psychoanalytic Movement, is crudely apt. Betrayed by schismatic disciples, Freud settled the ...”

“... was built on a career in which triumph and disaster alternated with remarkable rapidity. Ernest Townsend’s painting Winston Churchill as First Lord of the Admiralty, commissioned for the National Liberal Club in 1915, underwent sympathetic sufferings with its subject on the scale of Dorian Gray’s. By the time Townsend started work Churchill had ...”

“... early 1850s fired the imaginations of the Oxford undergraduates William Morris and Edward Burne Jones. But De Morgan was enrolled at University College, where there was no scope for picturesque medievalism. The spirit of place did not haunt Gower Street. Having failed to get a degree, De Morgan decided to become a painter. He made friends among the second ...”

“... stream of discovery flows, sometimes sluggishly, sometimes in a torrent through Fleming’s pages. Ernest Starling, a physiologist who contributed a great deal to the understanding of heart function, took the view that the merit attaching to the act of discovery is invariably overstated: ‘Every discovery,’ he wrote, ‘however important and apparently ...”

“... In response to a query from Hoover – ‘Isn’t Baldwin a known pervert?’ – an Agent Jones responds: It is not a matter of official record that he is a pervert; however, the theme of homosexuality has figured prominently in two of his three published novels. Baldwin has stated that it is also ‘implicit’ in his first novel Go Tell It on the ...”

“... gallery, I shouldn’t know what to do with a minstrels’ gallery if I had one. Mr Penry-Jones wanted to put me on this machine the Duke of Gloucester inaugurated. This body-scan thing. Only there was such a long waiting-list apparently.’ A nurse came through. ‘She’s the one I was telling you about. I asked her if your Dad was in a coma or just ...”

“... I was involved in. And so​ to My Lai, the subject of this authoritative new account by Howard Jones. The ghastly story burst on the world on 12 November 1969, when Associated Press wires carried the first report by the freelance investigator Seymour Hersh indicating that men of the 23rd Americal Division had carried out a massacre of civilians at My ...”