Maurice Bowra: A Life - Couverture rigide

Mitchell, Leslie

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0199295840 ISBN 13 : 9780199295845

Editeur : Oxford University Press, 2009

Synopsis

Book by Mitchell Leslie

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Maurice Bowra was, according to one's point of view, either the most distinguished or the most notorious Oxford don of the early twentieth century. Classicist, poet, wit, raconteur extraordinary, and Warden of Wadham College for over thirty years, he met nearly everyone of consequence in the worlds of literature and politics and had stories to tell about them all, from Jean Cocteau to Virginia Woolf, from Adolf Hitler to the Kennedys, from Isaiah Berlin to Charlie Chaplin. By force of personality and intellectual range, he influenced the thinking of almost everyone with whom he came into contact. Above all, brought up in Edwardian England, he was able to chart the ways in which the values of his youth were tested by new democratic ideas. His experiences allowed him to develop and employ theories of education that were startling, and which would mould the thinking of a generation of English intellectuals. Based upon a wide range of interviews and previously unpublished manuscript material, this is the first ever biography of Bowra, and covers every aspect of his life, from soldier on the Western Front to Oxford classicist, from celebrated wit to frustrated poet manqué.

Revue de presse :

This balanced, widely researched, objective and well written biography...gives readers an insight into a not unimportant part of twentieth centiry English life. (A.C.T, Contemporary Review.)

This beautifully written book conveys a vivid portrait of the man and his time. (Network Review)

Mitchell's book draws on much new material, and he does a creditable job of depicting a curious and influential mentor. (Lindsay Bagshaw, The Chap)

it is appropriate that Leslie Mitchell ... should have undertaken his biography. He has done it with a wit and perception worthy of his subject, ruthlessly stripping away the defences and disguises of Bowra's suprisingly vulnerable ego. (Jeremy Catto, English Historical Review)

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Oxford University Press
• Date d'édition: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0199295840
• ISBN 13: 9780199295845
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 400