1998, ISBN: 9780002153928

Meridian Books (The World Publishing Company), 1963. Soft cover. Good. 216 pages plus 23 front matter and intro, with Bibliographical Note and Chronological Table of Events 1847-9. Firs… Mehr…

Meridian Books (The World Publishing Company), 1963. Soft cover. Good. 216 pages plus 23 front matter and intro, with Bibliographical Note and Chronological Table of Events 1847-9. First Meridian printing of book published 1956. Introduction by Isaiah Berlin. Herzen's analysis of the 1848 Revolutions. Mass-market paperback, reading crease, wraps soiled, light shelf wear includes rubbing along spine, faint foxing to top edge, binding firm ("sewn for durability"). Name of former owner Prof. Warner Berthoff written on ffep, his underscoring and/or marginalia throughout - up to p. 145 and on rfep (likely dating from a course he taught on the literature of 1848). The second essay is clean, but don't order this copy if you'll be bothered by the heavy annotation of the first two-thirds of the book., Meridian Books (The World Publishing Company), 1963, 2.5, HarperCollins Publishers, London, first edition, 1998. Cloth, 8vo, 20 cm,. xiv, 258 pp, 34 ills. From the blurb - "John Sparrow was an outstanding classical scholar, a rising young lawyer at the Chancery Bar and later, a distinguished Latinist, essayist and literary critic, and one of the most discerning book collectors anywhere. From his school-days at Winchester he became torn between scholarship and the pursuit of literature and, during his long reign as Warden of All Souls, his conservative views made him into a media figure to such an extent that, some twenty years after his retirement, All Souls rarely appears in the press without some mention of John Sparrow. He was one of the great characters of Oxford this century. John Lowe was a close friend of Sparrow’s for forty-three years. In 1988 he invited him to be his biographer and gave him the freedom of his large archive of public and private papers. These include many unpublished letters from John Betjeman, Edith Sitwell, Harold Nicolson, Kenneth Clark, Maurice Bowra, Cyril Radcliffe, William Plomer, Harold Macmillan and many other public and literary figures. His mother added a more personal view. And of course .there were love letters, hundreds of them, which reveal a romantic and tender side of Sparrow’s nature, known to few. Sparrow was a homosexual. He never flaunted it but hardly troubled to conceal it. But as Lowe makes clear, it was at the centre of his being, colouring his every thought This side of his character is confronted, not only through the account of one of his major love affairs, but also in its profound influence on his dealings with people, whether it was his Coldstream Guards platoon guarding Churchill at Chequers, or his colleagues at All Souls. The biography is equally frank about his failure as Warden, his inability to accept the changes which were overtaking Oxford at that time, and the short, distressing spell of drunkenness that followed his retirement. But his marvellous humour and his great gift for friendship largely redeemed his failure. Isaiah Berlin once said of him, ‘He was the best companion in the world’. The book balances the success and failure of this elusive and unique man and reminds us that in his lifetime everyone wanted to know John Sparrow. He will remain a part of Oxford’s history. Good in a creased dustwrapper which has a tear on the front hinge., HarperCollins Publishers, London, first edition, 1998, 1998, 2.5<

1998, ISBN: 9780002153928

HarperCollins Publishers, London, first edition, 1998. Cloth, 8vo, 20 cm,. xiv, 258 pp, 34 ills. From the blurb - "John Sparrow was an outstanding classical scholar, a rising young… Mehr…

HarperCollins Publishers, London, first edition, 1998. Cloth, 8vo, 20 cm,. xiv, 258 pp, 34 ills. From the blurb - "John Sparrow was an outstanding classical scholar, a rising young lawyer at the Chancery Bar and later, a distinguished Latinist, essayist and literary critic, and one of the most discerning book collectors anywhere. From his school-days at Winchester he became torn between scholarship and the pursuit of literature and, during his long reign as Warden of All Souls, his conservative views made him into a media figure to such an extent that, some twenty years after his retirement, All Souls rarely appears in the press without some mention of John Sparrow. He was one of the great characters of Oxford this century. John Lowe was a close friend of Sparrow’s for forty-three years. In 1988 he invited him to be his biographer and gave him the freedom of his large archive of public and private papers. These include many unpublished letters from John Betjeman, Edith Sitwell, Harold Nicolson, Kenneth Clark, Maurice Bowra, Cyril Radcliffe, William Plomer, Harold Macmillan and many other public and literary figures. His mother added a more personal view. And of course .there were love letters, hundreds of them, which reveal a romantic and tender side of Sparrow’s nature, known to few. Sparrow was a homosexual. He never flaunted it but hardly troubled to conceal it. But as Lowe makes clear, it was at the centre of his being, colouring his every thought This side of his character is confronted, not only through the account of one of his major love affairs, but also in its profound influence on his dealings with people, whether it was his Coldstream Guards platoon guarding Churchill at Chequers, or his colleagues at All Souls. The biography is equally frank about his failure as Warden, his inability to accept the changes which were overtaking Oxford at that time, and the short, distressing spell of drunkenness that followed his retirement. But his marvellous humour and his great gift for friendship largely redeemed his failure. Isaiah Berlin once said of him, ‘He was the best companion in the world’. The book balances the success and failure of this elusive and unique man and reminds us that in his lifetime everyone wanted to know John Sparrow. He will remain a part of Oxford’s history. Good in a creased dustwrapper which has a tear on the front hinge., HarperCollins Publishers, London, first edition, 1998, 1998, 2.5<

1998, ISBN: 0002153920

[EAN: 9780002153928], Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, [SC: 4.03], [PU: HarperCollins Publishers, United Kingdom, London], JOHN LOWE THE WARDEN A PORTRAIT OF SPARROW, John Sparrow was the b… Mehr…

[EAN: 9780002153928], Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, [SC: 4.03], [PU: HarperCollins Publishers, United Kingdom, London], JOHN LOWE THE WARDEN A PORTRAIT OF SPARROW, John Sparrow was the brilliant, eccentric warden of All Soul's, Oxford and friend of, amongst others, John Betjeman, Kenneth Clark, Harold Nicolson. This is his authorised biography. John Sparrow was a scholarship boy from Wolverhampton and one of the cleverest men of his generation - a classical scholar, lawyer, essayist and connoisseur. Warden of All Souls', Oxford for over 25 years, he became post-war Oxford's most celebrated eccentric, homosexual intellectuals with an undying love for poetry and an acerbic wit and style. John Lowe knew Sparrow for well over 40 years and has been given exclusive and unrestricted access to the treasure-trove of Sparrow's papers which include unpublished letters from John Betjeman, as well the complete correspondence between Sparrow and his mother, letters from Harold Nicolson, Edith Sitwell, Kenneth Clark, Maurice Bowra, James Pope-Hennessey, etc. All the defining moments of Sparrow's life are here - his time as one of London's cleverest young barristers, his delight in airing unorthodox opinions, his controversial election to the Wardenship of All Souls', his homosexuality, his alcoholism on retirement, his love of books and book collecting, his own writing and reputation as the last great English essayist. Lowe also sees Sparrow as a symbol of the successes and failures of post-war Oxford and its reluctance to look into the future and re-address its role in British education. 'Here, with his talents in a napkin hid, Lies one who much designed, and nothing did; Postponing and deferring, day by day, He quite procrastinated life away, And, when at length the summons came to die, With his last breath put off - mortality.' This epitaph John Sparrow wrote for himself - a joke at his own expense. In many ways, his story is a story of failure, of the many problems faced by those who are found to be very clever very young. It is an extraordinary account of an extraordinary man. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged., Books<