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One Hundred Letters From Hugh Trevor-Roper

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Description for One Hundred Letters From Hugh Trevor-Roper Paperback. .
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 comédie 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 Sévigné and Horace Walpole. Though he generally ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Oxford University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Weight
606g
Number of Pages
496
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780198703136
SKU
V9780198703136
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About R Davenport-Hines
Richard Davenport-Hines is a historian, literary biographer, and former Research Fellow of the London School of Economics. He has edited two previous collections of Hugh Trevor-Roper's writings, Letters from Oxford (2006) and Wartime Journals (2011). His other previous books include Dudley Docker: The Life and Times of a Trade Warrior, for which he won the Wolfson Prize, biographies of W. ... Read more

Reviews for One Hundred Letters From Hugh Trevor-Roper
Hugh Trevor-Roper was probably the greatest letter writer of what Noel Annan called 'our age', corresponding with almost anybody who was anybody, and in a style that was both inimitable and incomparable. This latest anthology is by turns memorable, fascinating, wicked and malicious, and impossible to put down.
Sir David Cannadine
A superb selection ... The book makes ... Read more

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