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One Hundred Letters From Hugh Trevor-Roper (Hardcover, New) Loot Price: R708
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One Hundred Letters From Hugh Trevor-Roper (Hardcover, New)

Richard Davenport-Hines, Adam Sisman

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The one hundred letters brought together for this book illustrate the range of Hugh Trevor-Roper's life and preoccupations: as an historian, a controversialist, a public intellectual, an adept in academic intrigues, a lover of literature, a traveller, a countryman. They depict a life of rich diversity; a mind of intellectual sparkle and eager curiosity; a character that relished the comedie humaine, and the absurdities, crotchets, and vanities of his contemporaries. The playful irony of Trevor-Roper's correspondence places him in a literary tradition stretching back to such great letter-writers as Madame de Sevigne and Horace Walpole. Though he generally shunned emotional self-exposure in correspondence as in company, his letters to the woman who became his wife reveal the surprising intensity and the raw depths of his feelings. Trevor-Roper was one of the most gifted scholars of his generation, and one of the most famous dons of his day. While still a young man, he made his name with his bestseller The Last Days of Hitler, and became notorious for his acerbic assaults on other historians. In his prime, Trevor-Roper appeared to have everything: a grey Bentley, a prestigious chair in Oxford, a beautiful country house, a wife with a title, and, eventually, a title of his own. But he failed to write the 'big book' expected of him, and tainted his reputation when in old age he erroneously authenticated the forged Hitler diaries. For an academic, Trevor-Roper's interests were extraordinarily wide, bringing him into contact with such diverse individuals as George Orwell and Margaret Thatcher, Albert Speer and Kim Philby, Katharine Hepburn and Rupert Murdoch. The tragicomedy of his tenure as Master of Peterhouse, Cambridge, provided an appropriate finale to a career packed with incident. Trevor-Roper's letters to Bernard Berenson, published as Letters from Oxford in 2006, gave pleasure to a wide variety of readers. This more general selection of his correspondence has been long anticipated, and will delight anyone who values wit, erudition, and clear prose.

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Imprint: Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: December 2013
First published: February 2014
Editors: Richard Davenport-Hines • Adam Sisman
Dimensions: 242 x 135 x 30mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 447
Edition: New
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-870311-2
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Essays, journals, letters & other prose works > General
Books > Humanities > History > Theory & methods > Historiography
Books > Humanities > History > British & Irish history > General
Books > Humanities > History > World history > From 1900 > General
Books > History > British & Irish history > General
Books > History > Theory & methods > Historiography
Books > History > World history > From 1900 > General
LSN: 0-19-870311-2
Barcode: 9780198703112

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