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It's a Don's Life
Adelene Buckland
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Description for It's a Don's Life
paperback. Covers the author's famous blog, A Don's Life, that ran on the "TLS" website for over three years. Num Pages: 288 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: BM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 20. Weight in Grams: 240.
Mary Beard's by now famous blog A Don's Life has been running on the TLS website for nearly three years. In it she has made her name as a wickedly subversive commentator on the world in which we live. Her central themes are the classics, universities and teaching -- and much else besides. What are academics for? Who was the first African Roman emperor? Looting -- ancient and modern. Are modern exams easier? Keep lesbos for the lesbians. Did St Valentine exist? What made the Romans laugh? That is just a small taste of this selection (and some of the choicer responses) which will inform, occasionally provoke and cannot fail to entertain.
Product Details
Publisher
Profile Books
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
Weight
235g
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781846682513
SKU
V9781846682513
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99-99
About Adelene Buckland
Mary Beard is a professor of classics at Newnham College, Cambridge, and the classics editor of the TLS. She has world-wide academic acclaim. Her previous books include the bestselling, Wolfson Prize-winning Pompeii, The Roman Triumph, The Parthenon and Confronting the Classics. Her blog has been collected in the books It's a Don's Life and All in a Don's Day. She is in the 2014 top 10 Prospect list of the most influential thinkers in the world.
Reviews for It's a Don's Life
Delightful ... it has the virtues of brevity, eclecticism and learning worn lightly ... Beard is a very funny and penetrating commentator on academic life - and has a fantastic knack for controversy. If they'd had Mary Beard on their side back then, the Romans would still have their empire
Sam Leith
Daily Mail
Enjoyable ... Beard is an exuberant communicator
Dinah Birch
Observer
Sharply observed, often hilarious slices of academic life
Charlotte Higgins
Guardian
Beard's studies of bygone times are infused with a peppering of wit that is unusual in an academic work, but given free rein here
Julian Fleming
Sunday Business Post
This collection of her posts is pithy and engaging. The casual, humorous tone is seemingly informal. But the rhythm and cadence of the short blog have been honed to a fine art ... Beard remains self-deprecatory, invigoratingly sane and zestful
Frances Spalding
Independent
The marvellously educative, hilarious It's a Don's Life by Mary Beard, the blogging queen
Jane Gardam
Daily Telegraph
Beard has a spry, pithy, conversational style ... a diverting read
Edmund Gordon
Sunday Times
Well-written, in short column-length bursts, it's the thinking person's loo book
Alastair Mabbott
Glasgow Herald
It's a Don's Life is, by turns, enlightening, funny, outrageous
Weekend Australian
Sam Leith
Daily Mail
Enjoyable ... Beard is an exuberant communicator
Dinah Birch
Observer
Sharply observed, often hilarious slices of academic life
Charlotte Higgins
Guardian
Beard's studies of bygone times are infused with a peppering of wit that is unusual in an academic work, but given free rein here
Julian Fleming
Sunday Business Post
This collection of her posts is pithy and engaging. The casual, humorous tone is seemingly informal. But the rhythm and cadence of the short blog have been honed to a fine art ... Beard remains self-deprecatory, invigoratingly sane and zestful
Frances Spalding
Independent
The marvellously educative, hilarious It's a Don's Life by Mary Beard, the blogging queen
Jane Gardam
Daily Telegraph
Beard has a spry, pithy, conversational style ... a diverting read
Edmund Gordon
Sunday Times
Well-written, in short column-length bursts, it's the thinking person's loo book
Alastair Mabbott
Glasgow Herald
It's a Don's Life is, by turns, enlightening, funny, outrageous
Weekend Australian