Seven Pillars Of Wisdom. A Triumph

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Good
Jacket Condition: Good
Publisher: Book Club Assoc
Publisher Place: London
Publisher Year: 1973
Edition: Reprint

Description: 700 pages. Book and Jacket are both in Good condition. There is some light shelf and reading wear, but still a presentable copy.

Publishers Description: As Angus Calder states in his introduction to this edition, Seven Pillars of Wisdom is one of the major statements about the fighting experience of the First World War. Lawrences younger brothers, Frank and Will, had been killed on the Western Front in 1915. Seven Pillars of Wisdom, written between 1919 and 1926, tells of the vastly different campaign against the Turks in the Middle East - one which encompasses gross acts of cruelty and revenge and ends in a welter of stink and corpses in the disgusting hospital in Damascus. Seven Pillars of Wisdom is no Boys Own Paper tale of Imperial triumph, but a complex work of high literary aspiration which stands in the tradition of Melville and Dostoevsky, and alongside the writings of Yeats, Eliot and Joyce. AUTHOR: The image of Lawrence of Arabia, dressed in white Arab robes astride a camel is a familiar one, propagated by David Leans film 1962 film, but dating back to American journalist Lowell Thomass sensationalist account of Lawrences part in the Arab revolt, and from Lawrences own autobiographical account Seven Pillars of Wisdom which, despite some doubts as to its truth in parts, has been described as one of the major statements about the fighting experience of the First World War.

ISBN: 9781853264696