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The Unexpected Professor

Hardcover • 2014 • 1. edition

The Unexpected Professor

By John Carey

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About the book

Best known for his provocative take on cultural issues in The Intellectuals and the Masses and What Good Are the Arts?, John Carey describes in this warm and funny memoir the events that formed him - an escape from the London blitz to an idyllic rural village, army service in Egypt, an open scholarship to Oxford and an academic career that saw him elected, age 40, to Oxford's oldest English Literature professorship.He frankly portrays the snobberies and rituals of 1950s Oxford, but also his insp...Show more

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ISBN

9780571310920

Publisher

Faber & Faber

Published year

2014

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1

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The Unexpected Professor

Format

Hardcover

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