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The Unexpected Professor - An Oxford Life in Books (Paperback, Main)
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The Unexpected Professor - An Oxford Life in Books (Paperback, Main)
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Loot Price R315
Discovery Miles 3 150
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'Among the wealthy elders, my views gave some offence. Two or three
people walked out of my lecture in Hamburg. At a dinner in
Oldenburg I was seated next to a senior academic who berated me for
my leftist leanings - not what he expected of an Oxford
professor...' John Carey, best known for his provocative stance on
the arts and the academic establishment, looks back on his journey
from an ordinary background to Oxford's oldest literary
professorship. Books formed the backbone of his life: from Biggles
in his boyhood home to G. K. Chesterton in his West London grammar
school to rigorous scholarship on Milton, Donne and many others. In
this warm and funny memoir, he remembers afresh his encounters with
the great (and not so great) works of English literature - the
rewards, fulfilment and sheer pleasure to be found there.
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