One Hundred Letters From Hugh Trevor-Roper [Kindle Edition] Author: Richard Davenport-Hines Adam Sisman | Language: English | ISBN:
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Posts about Download The Book Download One Hundred Letters From Hugh Trevor-Roper for everyone book with Mediafire Link Download Link 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 comédie 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 Sévigné 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 chair in Oxford, a beautiful country house, a wife with a title, and, eventually, a title of his own. But he failed to write the 'big
book' expected of him, and tainted his reputation when in old age he erroneously authenticated the forged Hitler diaries.
For an academic, Trevor-Roper's interests were extraordinarily wide, bringing him into contact with such diverse individuals as George Orwell and Margaret Thatcher, Albert Speer and Kim Philby, Katharine Hepburn and Rupert Murdoch. The tragicomedy of his tenure as Master of Peterhouse, Cambridge, provided an appropriate finale to a career packed with incident.
Trevor-Roper's letters to Bernard Berenson, published as Letters from Oxford in 2006, gave pleasure to a wide variety of readers. This more general selection of his correspondence has been long anticipated, and will delight anyone who values wit, erudition, and clear prose. Direct download links available for Download One Hundred Letters From Hugh Trevor-Roper [Kindle Edition]
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- Publisher: OUP Oxford (December 19, 2013)
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- Language: English
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The academic backdrop of this historian's noted zest for professional argument is greatly enriched by his display in these few letters of a profound fluency in friendship, a genuinely humanistic scope of interest, and an estimable gift for the judicious appraisal. To read him "venturing to defend Gibbon" to his dear friend Gerald Brenan, is to marvel not merely at his gift for encompassing a great mind in very clear and verifiable terms, but at the powerful sensitivity and affection which can be projected to a grieving friend through invoking their common values as a subtle, unstated compliment. Trevor-Roper can be read here not merely for what he knows, but for what he knows of why he learned it, and how to apply learning to the nourishing of society. The book is very well edited, with all the footnotes one would need for context, without turning to another section. It must have been ridiculously difficult to keep this book so portable and yet compleat.
By Carter Nicholas
Those who knew Trevor-Roper considered him a wonderful chap, but his judgemental temper is more than a little off-putting.
He reminds me of Kingsley Amis in that respect: someone whom his friends loved, but who was so hypercritical of everyone else that you can't imagine him as being an ideal human being.
Trevor-Roper's opinions, especially apart from historical questions, are often dubious. For example, he thought that the novel was a dead form, whereas poetry was still vital in the 20th century, which I'd say is completely backwards. He only likes a few novelists of any era, one of them being the now unreadable Walter Scott, and he recommends Stendhal as a master of style--not untrue, but only in the sui generis case of Stendhal. Read Jean Giono to see why imitating Stendhal is a grave mistake.
The unreadable Doughty wrote one of Trevor-Roper's favorite books, and his inordinate praise for Gibbon seems to me to be ancestor worship of the doubtful kind.
But Trevor-Roper was a good writer, a stylist without question, so reading his letters and diaries is rewarding for that merit alone, certainly much better than trying to read his straight historical works (excepting his book on Hitler, though why that should be compared with Gibbon, which more than one critic has done, baffles me).
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