A Cornishman at Oxford
A L Rowse, SIGNED Graham Greene Interest
From Lasting Words Ltd, Northampton, UK, United Kingdom
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
AbeBooks Seller since 15 January 2008
From Lasting Words Ltd, Northampton, UK, United Kingdom
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
AbeBooks Seller since 15 January 2008
About this Item
1st Edition 1965. Signed by the author to the title page. Also includes a two page letter dated Palm Sunday 1989 from Rowse to Bevis Hillier. In the letter Rowse replies to a query about Robin Zaehne. He goes on to discuss Graham Greene.' You are right about Graham Greene's double agent mentality. I find it uncongenial and I don't like his serious proselytizing novels anymore than Flannery O'Connor did. I only like his short stories and light entertainments. Of course he is a gifted writer, it is his general outlook I do not like, Catholic-Communism, brothels, womanising, drink, opium, the death-wish, boredom etc . A vivid and veracious account of a brilliant Oxford undergraduate generation in the 1920s, along with an evocation of life in a Cornish working-class home, with its background of hills and moors and sea. Portrays the early stages in the development of a remarkable and individual writer. Book is very good++ and bright. Nice clean contents. The wrapper is very good and bright. Light age toning. Edges lightly rubbed, creased and nicked. More images can be taken upon request. Ref15215. Seller Inventory # 018995
Bibliographic Details
Title: A Cornishman at Oxford
Publisher: Cape, UK
Publication Date: 1965
Binding: Decorative Cloth
Condition: Very Good ++
Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+
Edition: First Edition
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