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A historian, poet and autobiographer, A. L. Rowse (1903-1997) moved through the worlds of academia, politics and publishing; those he encountered upon the way came in for witty and vitriolic diatribes in his journals. On their first publication in 2003 these diaries were already widely anticipated - Rowse himself had suggested in his lifetime that there would be much to scandalise and entertain in them, and they didn't disappoint this prediction. Winston Churchill, G. M. Trevelyan, T. S. Eliot and John Betjeman are among the famous characters who came under his gaze, and whose conversations and opinions of one another he recorded.
Compiled and edited by Richard Ollard, the diaries stretch from the 1920s - when Rowse first left his native Cornwall to study at Cambridge - to the 1960s, a fascinating and personal study of the most turbulent decades in recent history.
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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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"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)
Richard Ollard is one of Britain's most distinguished C17th historians and book editors. He and Norman Lewis were jointly awarded the 1998 Heywood Hill Prize. His biography of Rowse, A Man of Contradictions, was published in 1999.
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