T. E. Lawrence (1888–1935)
Autor/a de Seven Pillars of Wisdom
Sobre l'autor
Born in Caernarvonshire in North Wales and educated at Oxford University, T. E. Lawrence was a soldier, author, archaeologist, traveler, and translator. After participating in archaeological expeditions in the Middle East from 1911 to 1914, he worked for British Army intelligence in North Africa mostra'n més during World War I. In 1916 he joined the Arab revolt against the Turks and became known as Lawrence of Arabia, the man who freed the Arabs from Turkish rule. The manuscript of his The Seven Pillars of Wisdom (1926) was lost when it had been two-thirds finished, and he rewrote the book from memory in 1919. Because it expressed certain personal and political opinions that Lawrence did not wish to publicize, it was offered for sale in 1926 in England at a prohibitive price. To ensure copyright in the United States, it was reprinted here by Doran (now Doubleday) and 10 copies were offered for sale at $20,000 each, a price "high enough to prevent their ever being sold." Doubleday then brought out a limited edition and a trade edition, substantially the same as the rare 1926 edition.Revolt in the Desert (1927) is an abridgment of The Seven Pillars, which the author made to pay the printing expenses of the original. The Mint (1955), an account of his service with the Royal Air Force, was published posthumously in an edition of 50 copies, 10 of which were offered for sale at a price of $500,000 each, to ensure no copies being sold. In 1950 a popular edition, in 1955 a limited edition, and in 1963 a paperback edition were published. After World War I, Lawrence enlisted in the Royal Air Force as Private John Hume Ross; when his real identity was discovered, he transferred to the Royal Tank Corps under the name T. E. Shaw, a name he legally assumed in 1927. In 1937 Lawrence was killed when the motorbike given to him by George Bernard Shaw (see Vol. 1) went out of control on an English country lane. Earlier biographers, including Lowell Thomas and Robert Graves, were enthusiastic and laudatory of Lawrence. Twenty years after his death, Richard Aldington wrote Lawrence of Arabia: A Biographical Enquiry, which "set off a fury of charge and countercharge." But Lawrence's saga had become legend. In tribute to this adventurous, enigmatic genius, who shunned fame, wealth, and power, King George V wrote, "His name will live in history." Public interest in "the elusive, mysterious and complex young Irishman" who led the Arab revolt was revived by Lawrence of Arabia, 1962's most honored film. In recent years the picture of Lawrence has changed again with the revelation of his illegitimacy, his readiness to embroider the truth, and other quirks and neuroses; but there were English witnesses to many of his accomplishments, and the disagreements among those who knew him have hindered efforts to discredit him in any definitive manner; even the Arabs view him with their Arab pride at stake. He remains enigmatic and eccentric, and is likely to be the subject of more research and many volumes before the truth about him is finally and fully understood. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra'n menys
Crèdit de la imatge: Image from With Lawrence In Arabia (1924) by Lowell Thomas (cropped)
Obres de T. E. Lawrence
T.E. Lawrence in War and Peace: An Anthology of the Military Writings of Lawrence of Arabia (2005) 28 exemplars
The Diary Kept by T. E. Lawrence While Travelling in Arabia During 1911 (Folios Archive Library) (1937) 20 exemplars
The Letters of T. E. Lawrence [editor unknown] 8 exemplars
Lawrence de Arabia, la corona de arena (Memoria de la historia) (Spanish Edition) (1995) 5 exemplars
Men in Print : Essays in Literary Criticism 3 exemplars
T. E. Lawrence av Arabien : en antologi 2 exemplars
The Collected Works of Lawrence of Arabia (Unabridged): Seven Pillars of Wisdom The Mint The Evolution of a Revolt… (2015) 2 exemplars
Two Arabic folk tales / translated by T.E. Lawrence ; edited and illustrated by Paul W. Nash. (1996) 2 exemplars
Faisals Aufgebot 2 exemplars
T. E. Lawrence, Correspondence with Bernard and Charlotte Shaw: Vol. I: 1922-1926; Vol. II: 1927; Vol. III: 1928; Vol.… (2013) 2 exemplars
Los siete pilares de la sabiduría. Vol. 3 2 exemplars
Across 1 exemplars
Opere 1 exemplars
Seitse tarkuse sammast. II 1 exemplars
Lettres 1 exemplars
Slagen till slant : en dagbok från RAF-depån mellan augusti och december 1922 jämte senare… 1 exemplars
Uppreisnin í eyðimörkinni : Síðari hlutinn 1 exemplars
Uppreisnin í eyðimörkinni : Fyrri hlutinn 1 exemplars
Towards 'an English fourth' : Fragments and echoes of 'Seven Pillars of Wisdom', 1918-21 : Edited by Jeremy and Nicole… (2009) 1 exemplars
Shaw-Ede. T. E. Lawrence's Letters to H. S. Ede, 1927-1935. Forew. and running comm. by H. S. Ede 1 exemplars
Seven Pillars of Wisdom Annotated 1 exemplars
Ornament of honour 1 exemplars
Portraits for Seven Pillars of Wisdom 1 exemplars
An essay on Flecker 1 exemplars
The Travels of Marco Polo and Seven Pillars of Wisdom (International Collector's Library, 2 Books) 1 exemplars
The Kaer of Ibu Wardani 1 exemplars
The Diary Kept by T. E. Lawrence While Travelling in arabia During 1911 and An Essay on Flecker. 1 exemplars
Lawrence of Arabia: Pillars of Wisdom 1 exemplars
Seven Pillars of Wisdom Vol I & II 1 exemplars
Obres associades
The Voyages of Ulysses: A Photographic Interpretation of Homer's Classic (1961) — Traductor, algunes edicions — 58 exemplars
The Programmed Classics (13 Volume Set (Canterbury Tales, Crime & Punishment, Complete works of William Shakespeare… (1968) — Col·laborador — 4 exemplars
American Aphrodite: A Quarterly for the Fancy-Free (Volume 1, Number 1) (1951) — Col·laborador — 3 exemplars
Ode to Boy: Vol. 2: An Anthology of Same-Sex Attraction in Literature from the 19th Century Through the First World War (2014) — Col·laborador — 2 exemplars
Great Railroad Stories of the World — Col·laborador — 2 exemplars
Then and Now. A Selection of Articles, Stories & Poems, Taken from the First Fifty Numbers of ‘Now & Then’,… (1935) — Col·laborador — 2 exemplars
T.-E. Lawrence (La Bibliotheque Ideale) — Autor — 1 exemplars
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Altres noms
- Shaw, T. E. (name changed by deed poll)
Ross, John Hume
Lawrence of Arabia
Lawrence, Thomas Edward (birth name) - Data de naixement
- 1888-08-16
- Data de defunció
- 1935-05-19
- Lloc d'enterrament
- St. Nicholas' Church, Moreton, Dorset, England, UK
- Gènere
- male
- Nacionalitat
- UK
- Lloc de naixement
- Tremadog, Caernarfonshire, Wales
- Lloc de defunció
- Clouds Hill, Wareham, Dorset, England, UK
- Causa de la mort
- motorcycle crash
- Llocs de residència
- Tremadog, Caernarfonshire, UK
Chingford, London, England, UK
Clouds Hill, Wareham, Dorset, England, UK
Egypt
Arabia - Educació
- University of Oxford (Jesus College ∙ Magdalen College ∙ BA|1910)
City of Oxford High School for Boys - Professions
- soldier
archaeologist - Relacions
- Lawrence, A. W. (brother)
Lawrence, M. R. (brother)
Lawrence, W. G. (brother)
Lawrence, F. H. (brother)
Lawrence, Sarah (mother) - Organitzacions
- British Army (Colonel)
Royal Air Force
Royal Tank Corps - Premis i honors
- Companion of the Order of the Bath (1917)
Distinguished Service Order(1918)
French Légion d'honneur (1916)
Croix de guerre (1918)
Membres
Converses
Seven Pillars of Wisdom reading group anyone? a Folio Society Devotees (maig 2015)
Ressenyes
Llistes
Premis
Potser també t'agrada
Autors associats
Estadístiques
- Obres
- 95
- També de
- 18
- Membres
- 7,079
- Popularitat
- #3,468
- Valoració
- 4.0
- Ressenyes
- 75
- ISBN
- 290
- Llengües
- 12
- Preferit
- 14
The first part of the book is really pretty much a travelogue of his explorations in Palestine and the crusader and arab castles there. The second section is a similar account of castles in France and England and the third part....in some ways the more interesting to me ....were his letters home to his mother about his various travels by bicycle in France and on foot in Palestine. Amazing when you consider that he was only around 19-20 years old when carrying out this research.
The thrust of the thesis is that, contrary to the accepted opinions of the time, The crusaders did not arrive in Palestine and absorb the secrets of military architecture from there and then transplant it to Europe. Rather it was the other way around.....the crusaders took their knowledge of proven structures from Europe to Palestine. If I was critiquing the thesis, I would suggest that there is a lot of text and conjecture that all comes together in a rush in the last paragraph of each section. And he seems to rely over-heavily on a single feature ....the mâchicoulis on the side of castles (an overhanging section that could be used for dropping rocks on besiegers below). Apparently, according to Lawrence, the arabs didn't have these before the crusaders arrived. He is also convinced that the crusaders took the idea of a stronghold (or keep) within the castle walls to the middle east. And he is very negative about the effectiveness of a keep. He comments that once the ouster walls of a castle were breached the survival of the inhabitants of the keep was rather doubtful. And the absence of keeps in pre-crusader castles, he takes as evidence that the movement of ideas was from Europe to the middle east rather than the other way around.
Actually, I think he has a rather difficult job. He was visiting castles around 1908-1909....about 700-800 years after they were constructed. Frequently they were constructed over pre-existing strongholds ...so adapted what was already there. And then the strongholds were attacked and changed hands multiple times between crusaders and arabs and, over the last 700 years, they may have been part destroyed, or mined for their cut stone, re-developed for more modern warfare etc. In France, by the time Lawrence was riding his bike around the countryside (and his coverage is truly remarkable) many of the big castles had been restored by Viollet le Duc or others ...or were currently occupied as grand houses. Anyway, the bottom line is that it is exceedingly difficult to ascertain exactly what was the layout in the crusader times.
But, I have to admit to being quite gob-smacked by the sheer distance that Lawrence managed to cover in France on a couple of bicycle tours and in Palestine-Syria on foot. He went up and down and across both countries and inspected and documented a vast number of military installations.
I can't believe that his knowledge of castles....as exhibited in his letter to his mother from Colchester in August 1905 (when he would have been just shy of 18 years old) was normal for a boy of that age. Perhaps there was a touch of autism there with the incredibly detailed focus on the subject of antiquities. But he certainly knew a lot and simply by visiting and personally studying closely (and mapping) ...37 castles in Palestine and Syria and 52 (in France by my count) ....plus more in Wales and England....he was probably the world authority of crusader military architecture at the time. There is one interesting throw away line in one of his letters where he says: "here I am Arab in habits, and slip in talking from English to French and Arabic unnoticing". Clearly he was picking up the languages as he went. Though I did notice that at one of his stops in France he was unable to obtain accommodation and so looked up "the Chaignons..where there was a most enthusiastic welcome". So it seems to me that maybe the family had spent much more time previously in France. (I can't help feeling a little envious of the opportunity to travel in France so readily in one's school holidays). And he also seems to have had a little bit of extra help with his travels in Palestine and Syria. (Staying with the Governors and having mounted military escorts....who was paying for all this?)
Overall, I found it a fascinating read. The Folio Society have done an excellent job with this edition. The maps and drawings are great and the photos also great. Clearly Lawrence had picked up a few tips from his dad on taking photos in 1908-09.. It seems that one of his brothers (A W Lawrence) had a fairly large role in pulling all the original material together for publication. Easily worth five stars from me.… (més)