| Description |
1 online resource (386 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
List of Plates; List of Short Titles; Preface; Part I. Formation; Part II. Fundamentals; Part III. Action; Part IV. Reflection; Endnotes; Select Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
The first ever biography of Maurice Bowra - classicist, poet, wit, raconteur extraordinary, and the most famous don of his generation. - ;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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 320-374) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Bowra, C. M. (Cecil Maurice), 1898-1971
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| SUBJECT |
Bowra, C. M. (Cecil Maurice), 1898-1971 fast |
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Wadham College -- History
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Wadham College fast |
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College teachers -- Great Britain -- Biography
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Classicists -- Great Britain -- Biography
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Classicists
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College teachers
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Intellectual life
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| SUBJECT |
Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056857
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Great Britain
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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History
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2008943926 |
| ISBN |
0191559040 |
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9780191559044 |
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9786611985486 |
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6611985484 |
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1281985481 |
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9781281985484 |
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