The Diaries of a. L. Rowse - Hardcover

Ollard, Richard

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0713995726 ISBN 13: 9780713995725

Verlag: Allen Lane, 2003

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Reseña del editor:

Rowse's journals extend over the greater part of the 20th century. He was born in 1903 and died in 1997. The son of a poor, virtually illiterate Cornish china-clay worker he became one of the most prolific authors of his time and one of the most-read. For fifty years a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford (its first working-class entrant) he seized the opportunities offered in scholarship, in literature, in politics and above all in public controversy.

Rowse also has a gift of describing country houses and their often eccentric inmates just when the old system was crumbling into dissolution. And yet he is equally alive to New York, to California, to the opulence of great American mansions and to the openness of American universities.

Biografía del autor:

Richard Ollard is one of Britain's most distinguished C17th historians and book editors. He and Norman Lewis were jointly awarded the 1998 Heywood Hill Prize. His biography of Rowse, A Man of Contradictions, was published in 1999.

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• Verlag: Allen Lane
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0713995726
• ISBN 13: 9780713995725
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 480
• Herausgeber: Ollard Richard