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245 14 $aThe unexpected professor :$ban Oxford life in books /$cJohn Carey.
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300 $axiii, 361 pages ;$c23 cm
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505 0 $aBeginning -- Radcliffe -- Grammar school -- Playing at soldiers -- Undergraduate -- Research student -- Keble -- St John Street and catching up with the Victorians -- Graves, Larkin and catching up with the twentieth century -- Reviewing -- Writing -- So, in the end, why read?
520 $aJohn Carey describes in this warm and funny memoir the events that formed him - an escape from the London blitz to an idyllic rural village, army service in Egypt, an open scholarship to Oxford and an academic career that saw him elected, age 40, to Oxford's oldest English literature professorship. He frankly portrays the snobberies and rituals of 1950s Oxford, but also his inspiring meetings with writers and poets - Auden, Graves, Larkin, Heaney - and his 40-year stint as a lead book-reviewer for the Sunday Times.
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