Maurice Bowra A Life

Name: Maurice Bowra A Life
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ISBN: 9780199295845

ISBN-10: 0199295840

ISBN-13: 9780199295845

Edition: 2009

Authors: Leslie Mitchell

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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…

Book details

List price: $50.00
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 3/15/2009
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 352
Size: 9.30" wide x 6.30" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 1.760
Language: English



List of Plates


List of Short Titles


Preface



Formation



From China to Cheltenham



War, 1914-1918



New College, 1919-1922



Fundamentals



Greece



Poetry



Sex and Sexuality



Action



Oxford, 1922-1938



Bowra and the Wider World, 1922-1939



Germany and America



Warden of Wadham, 1938-1970



Bowra at Large, 1945-1970



Reflection



The 1960s



Heaven or Hell


Endnotes


Select Bibliography


Index