One Hundred Letters From Hugh Trevor-Roper

A carefully chosen selection from the correspondence of Hugh Trevor-Roper, one of the most gifted and famous historians of his generation and one of the finest letter-writers of the twentieth century

List of contents

• List of Illustrations


• Introduction


• Prefatory Note


• The Letters


• Index

About the author

Richard Davenport-Hines is a historian, literary biographer, and former Research Fellow of the London School of Economics. He has edited two previous collections of Hugh Trevor-Roper's writings, Letters from Oxford (2006) and Wartime Journals (2011). His other previous books include Dudley Docker: The Life and Times of a Trade Warrior, for which he won the Wolfson Prize, biographies of W. H. Auden and Marcel Proust, Titanic Lives, and, most recently, An English Affair: Sex, Class and Power in the Age of Profumo.

Adam Sisman is a freelance writer, specializing in biography. His first book was a life of Hugh Trevor-Roper's rival, the historian A.J.P. Taylor (1994), and he has more recently written the authorized biography of Trevor-Roper himself (2010). Sisman's other work includes Boswell's Presumptuous Task (2000), which was awarded the National Books Critics Circle prize for biography, and The Friendship: Wordsworth and Coleridge (2006). He is currently at work on a life of John le Carré.

Summary

A carefully chosen selection from the correspondence of Hugh Trevor-Roper, one of the most gifted and famous historians of his generation and one of the finest letter-writers of the twentieth century

Product details

• Authors: Richard Sisman Davenport-Hines
• Assisted by: Richard Davenport-Hines (Editor), Davenport-Hines Richard (Editor), Adam Sisman (Editor), Sisman Adam (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 09.07.2015
• EAN: 9780198703136
• ISBN: 978-0-19-870313-6
• No. of pages: 484
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Briefwechsel (div.), European History, Diaries, letters & journals, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Diaries & Journals, 20th Century, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / Historiography, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Letters, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / 20th Century, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, British & Irish history, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Diaries, letters and journals