Maurice Bowra: A Life

by L.G. Mitchell

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019958933X
• ISBN13: 9780199589333
• Release Date: December 2010
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"