The Unexpected Professor
An Oxford Life in Books
Best known for his provocative take on cultural issues in The Intellectuals and the Masses and What Good Are the Arts?, John Carey describes in this warm and funny memoir the events that formed him - an escape from the London blitz to an idyllic rural village, army service in Egypt, an open scholarship to Oxford and an academic career that saw him elected, age 40, to Oxford's oldest English Literature professorship.He frankly portrays the snobberies and rituals of 1950s Oxford, but also his inspiring meetings with writers and poets - Auden, Graves, Larkin, Heaney - and his forty-year stint as a lead book-reviewer for the Sunday Times.This is…
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Weitere Autoren: Carey, John
- ISBN: 978-0-571-31094-4
- EAN: 9780571310944
- Produktnummer: 15951918
- Verlag: Bonnier Publishing Fiction
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
- Seitenangabe: 384 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 426 KB
- Auflage: Main
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