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The Unexpected Professor: An Oxford Life in Books by Professor John Carey (Paperback, 2015)
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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 a book about the joys of reading - in effect, an informal introduction to the great works of English literature. But it is also about war and family, and how an unexpected background can give you the insight and the courage to say the unexpected thing.Product Identifiers
PublisherFaber & Faber
ISBN-139780571310937
eBay Product ID (ePID)212917431
Product Key Features
Book TitleThe Unexpected Professor: an Oxford Life in Books
AuthorProfessor John Carey
FormatPaperback
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2015
GenreBiographies & True Stories
Number of Pages384 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height198mm
Item Width132mm
Item Weight310g
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Title_AuthorProfessor John Carey
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
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- 09 Aug, 2019
Compelling reading
Could not put this book down!Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
