Seven Pillars of Wisdom

作者: T.E. Lawrence （T.E. 劳伦斯）著

出版社: Wordsworth Editions Ltd

出版时间: 1997-06

版次: 1

ISBN: 9781853264696

定价: 48.00

装帧: 平装

开本: 32开

纸张: 胶版纸

页数: 704页

正文语种: 英语

分类: 外文古旧书>英文书>历史

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This Wordsworth Edition includes an exclusive Introduction by Angus Calder.

As Angus Calder states in his introduction to this edition, ‘Seven Pillars of Wisdom is one of the major statements about the fighting experience of the First World War’. Lawrence's younger brothers, Frank and Will, had been killed on the Western Front in 1915. Seven Pillars of Wisdom, written between 1919 and 1926, tells of the vastly different campaign against the Turks in the Middle East - one which encompasses gross acts of cruelty and revenge and ends in a welter of stink and corpses in the disgusting ‘hospital’ in Damascus.

Seven Pillars of Wisdom is no Boys Own Paper tale of Imperial triumph, but a complex work of high literary aspiration which stands in the tradition of Melville and Dostoevsky, and alongside the writings of Yeats, Eliot and Joyce. T.E. Lawrence was born on 16th August 1888 in Tremadog in Wales. He was one of five illegitimate children born to the Seventh Baron of Westmeath. He studied at Jesus College, Oxford where he became interested in the Middle East.He worked for British Intelligence during the First World War and fought with the Arab forces to defeat the Turks.His exploits earned him the title of 'Lawrence of Arabia' back in Britain.Her resigned in 1922 and sought anonymity in the RAF where he enlisted as John Hume Ross.He later changed his name by deed poll to T.E. Shaw. Shortly after retiring from the RAF, T.E. Lawrence died in a motorcycle accident on 19th May 1935. Author's Preface

Introductory Chapter

INTRODUCTION Foundations of Revolt

BOOK I The Discovery of Feisal

BOOK II Opening the Arab Offensive

BOOK III d Railway Diversion

BOOK IV Extending to Akaba

BOOK V Marking Time

BOOK VI The Raid upon the Bridges

BOOK vII The Dead Sea Campaign

BOOK VIII The Ruin of High Hope

BOOK IX Balancing for a Last Effort

BOOK X The House is Perected

Epilogue
内容简介:
This Wordsworth Edition includes an exclusive Introduction by Angus Calder.

As Angus Calder states in his introduction to this edition, ‘Seven Pillars of Wisdom is one of the major statements about the fighting experience of the First World War’. Lawrence's younger brothers, Frank and Will, had been killed on the Western Front in 1915. Seven Pillars of Wisdom, written between 1919 and 1926, tells of the vastly different campaign against the Turks in the Middle East - one which encompasses gross acts of cruelty and revenge and ends in a welter of stink and corpses in the disgusting ‘hospital’ in Damascus.

Seven Pillars of Wisdom is no Boys Own Paper tale of Imperial triumph, but a complex work of high literary aspiration which stands in the tradition of Melville and Dostoevsky, and alongside the writings of Yeats, Eliot and Joyce.
作者简介:
T.E. Lawrence was born on 16th August 1888 in Tremadog in Wales. He was one of five illegitimate children born to the Seventh Baron of Westmeath. He studied at Jesus College, Oxford where he became interested in the Middle East.He worked for British Intelligence during the First World War and fought with the Arab forces to defeat the Turks.His exploits earned him the title of 'Lawrence of Arabia' back in Britain.Her resigned in 1922 and sought anonymity in the RAF where he enlisted as John Hume Ross.He later changed his name by deed poll to T.E. Shaw. Shortly after retiring from the RAF, T.E. Lawrence died in a motorcycle accident on 19th May 1935.
目录:
Author's Preface

Introductory Chapter

INTRODUCTION Foundations of Revolt

BOOK I The Discovery of Feisal

BOOK II Opening the Arab Offensive

BOOK III d Railway Diversion

BOOK IV Extending to Akaba

BOOK V Marking Time

BOOK VI The Raid upon the Bridges

BOOK vII The Dead Sea Campaign

BOOK VIII The Ruin of High Hope

BOOK IX Balancing for a Last Effort

BOOK X The House is Perected

Epilogue