Professor John Carey

Broschiertes Buch

The Unexpected Professor

An Oxford Life in Books

Beschreibung

A funny memoir of John Carey, best known for his provocative stance on the arts and the academic establishment. It shows his journey from an ordinary background to Oxford's oldest literary professorship.

Autor

John Carey is an Emeritus Professor at Oxford University. His books include studies of Donne, Dickens and Thackeray, The Intellectuals and the Masses, What Good Are the Arts? and a life of William Golding.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Faber & Faber, London
• Main
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. März 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 128mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 296g
• ISBN-13: 9780571310937
• ISBN-10: 0571310931
• Artikelnr.: 41596893

Rezensionen

[It] conveys with incomparable precision the sense of a young mind being opened by, and dwelling within, literature. Robert Harris Sunday Times