Maurice Bowra : a life /

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 wo...

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Gespeichert in:
1. Verfasser:
Mitchell, L. G.
Format:
Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:
Englisch
Veröffentlicht:
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press 2009
Oxford University Press, 2009.
Ausgabe:
1st ed.
Zusammenfassung:
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.
Umfang:
1 online resource (xii, 385 pages, [8] pages of plates) : illustrations
Bibliografie:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [320]-374) and index.
ISBN:
0191559040
9780191559044
0-19-170072-X
1-281-98548-1
9786611985486
0-19-155904-0
Schlagworte:
Bowra, C. M. > (Cecil Maurice), > 1898-1971.
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