Unexpected Professor
An Oxford Life in Books
Edición de la obra The Unexpected Professor
| Autor | John Carey |
|---|---|
| Editorial | Faber & Faber, Limited |
| Fecha de publicación | 2015 |
| Idioma | inglés |
| Páginas | 384 |
| ISBN-13 | 9780571310937 |
| Número de Cutter | C274u |
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 inspiring meetings with writers and poets - Auden, Graves, Larkin, Heaney - and his 40-year stint as a lead book-reviewer for the Sunday Times.