{"product_id":"maurice-bowra-a-life-9780199589333","title":"Maurice Bowra: A Life","description":"\u003cp\u003eMaurice Bowra was  according to ones point of view  either the most distinguished or the most notorious Oxford don of the early twentieth century. Classicist  poet  wit  raconteur extraordinary  and Warden of Wadham College for over thirty years  he met nearly everyone of consequence in the worlds of literature and politics and had stories to tell about them all  from Jean Cocteau to Virginia Woolf  from Adolf Hitler to the Kennedys  from Isaiah Berlin to Charlie Chaplin. By force of personality and intellectual range  he influenced the thinking of almost everyone with whom he came into contact.  Above all  brought up in Edwardian England  he was able to chart the ways in which the values of his youth were tested by new democratic ideas. His experiences allowed him to develop and employ theories of education that were startling  and which would mould the thinking of a generation of English intellectuals.  Based upon a wide range of interviews and previously unpublished manuscript material  this is the first ever biography of Bowra  and covers every aspect of his life  from soldier on the Western Front to Oxford classicist  from celebrated wit to frustrated poet manque.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67973215027253,"sku":"ByrdShop_019958933X","price":34.07,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780199589333.jpg?v=1794634957","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/maurice-bowra-a-life-9780199589333","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}