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A. L. ROWSE WAS A PROLIFIC AND OPINIONATED DIARIST. HE COUNTED AMONGST HIS CLOSEFRIENDS AND ENEMIES SOME OF THE BRIGHTEST AND MOST INFLUENTIAL OF HIS CONTEMPORARIES. WE SEE HERE THE TRANSFORMATION FROM SHY CORNISH PRODIGY TO BEST-SELLING AUTHOR AND FETED ACADEMIC, AS WELL AS THE LASTING CONTRADICTIONS IN HIS CHARACTER - THE TENDER-HEARTED AND SENSITIVE MAN GIVEN TO TOWERING RAGES AND LASTING VENDETTAS; THE PAINSTAKING HISTORIAN; BRILLIANT RESEARCHER; AND ADVOCATEOF MODERNISM WHO BECAME FAMOUS AS A POPULAR HISTORIAN.

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"Egoists make the best diarists, provided they write honestly and vividly...these memoirs are wonderfully alive and bleakly moving." -- Daily Mail, March 28, 2003 (by John Casey)

"Monsters are huge fun to read about and this is an extraordinary and rancorous book, sulphuric in its rage." -- Express, April 19, 2003 (by Roger Lewis)

"This is a marvellously revealing portrait of one of the 20th-century most scholarly writers..." -- Good Book Guide, May 1, 2003

"...it is Rowse’s shrill misanthropy that gives these pages much of their energy and makes them so entertaining." -- Evening Standard, April 22, 2003 (by Peter Parker)
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A.L. Rowse was born in 1903 into a virtually illiterate Cornish family. He won what was then Cornwall's only county scholarship and became the first working-class man to be elected a Fellow of All Souls, Oxford. Rowse made the most of his long life; he was still publishing books - in all he wrote over a hundred - in his nineties.


Richard Ollard is the author of numerous books including biographies of Pepys and of Clarendon. A Man of Contradictions, his biography of A. L. Rowse, was published by Penguin in 1999.

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  • Publication date2004
  • ISBN 10 014100410X
  • ISBN 13 9780141004105
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  • Number of pages480
  • EditorOllard Richard
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