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A.L. Rowse once again provides some fascinating insights into the lives, characters and intellects of fourteen of his well-known contemporaries all of whom he knew personally. Includes glimpses of Bertrand Russell, J.M. Keynes, Ernest Beving, C.R. Attlee, Lionel Curtis, John Buchan, Rebecca West, H.G. Wells, Elizabeth Bowen, Cyril Connolly, Evelyn Waugh, C.S. Lewis and John Betjeman.
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A.L. Rowse is Fellow of the British Academy and Emeritus Fellow of All Souls College in Oxford. A renowned authority on the Elizabethan age, he is also the editor of UPA's Contemporary Shakespeare series.
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Reading this old Cornishman, austere and Puritan as he may be, is never dull and often wonderfully funny...>>>> (The Washington Times Magazine)
These are valuable brief studies of important thinkers, writers, and doers. They are done vividly and wittily. The author must be a remarkable if sometimes sharply judgmental man. Would we had more like him!>>>> (History)
These are valuable brief studies of important thinkers, writers, and doers. They are done vividly and wittily. The author must be a remarkable if sometimes sharply judgmental man. Would we had more like him! (History)
Reading this old Cornishman, austere and Puritan as he may be, is never dull and often wonderfully funny... (The Washington Times Magazine)
These are valuable brief studies of important thinkers, writers, and doers. They are done vividly and wittily. The author must be a remarkable if sometimes sharply judgmental man. Would we had more like him!>>>> (History)
These are valuable brief studies of important thinkers, writers, and doers. They are done vividly and wittily. The author must be a remarkable if sometimes sharply judgmental man. Would we had more like him! (History)
Reading this old Cornishman, austere and Puritan as he may be, is never dull and often wonderfully funny... (The Washington Times Magazine)
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- PublisherUniversity Press Of America
- Publication date1986
- ISBN 10 0819150088
- ISBN 13 9780819150080
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages254
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