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One Hundred Letters From Hugh Trevor-Roper by Davenport-Hines, Richard; Sisman, Adam; ; Trevor-Roper, Hugh is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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The one hundred letters brought together for this book illustrate the range of Hugh Trevor-Roper's life and preoccupations: as an historian, a controversialist, a public intellectual, an adept in academic intrigues, a lover of literature, a traveller, a countryman. They depict a life of rich diversity; a mind of intellectual sparkle and eager curiosity; a character that relished the __comedie humaine__, and the absurdities, crotchets, and vanities of his contemporaries. The playful irony of Trevor-Roper's correspondence places him in a literary tradition stretching back to such great letter-writers as Madame de Sevigne and Horace Walpole. Though he generally shunned emotional self-exposure in correspondence as in company, his letters to the woman who became his wife reveal the surprising intensity and the raw depths of his feelings. Trevor-Roper was one of the most gifted scholars of his generation, and one of the most famous dons of his day. While still a young man, he made his name with his bestseller __The Last Days of Hitler__, and became notorious for his acerbic assaults on other historians. In his prime, Trevor-Roper appeared to have everything: a grey Bentley, a prestigious

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Author

Davenport-Hines, Richard; Sisman, Adam; ; Trevor-Roper, Hugh

Publisher

Oxford University Press, USA

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9781306194457

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Historical Fiction, Historical