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Our Age: English Intellectuals Between the World Wars: A Group Portrait

Noel Annan

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Description:Acclaimed as "a tour-de-force" by the Observer and as "a superb achievement" by the Sunday Telegraph, Noel Annan's Our Age paints a portrait of his generation—the men and women who created and led postwar Britain.Our Age tells the story of the intellectuals formed by Cambridge, Oxford, and the London School of Economics between 1920 and 1949, the people who in turn shaped the literature, science and politics of their age—and to some extent ours. In a wonderfully detailed and always stimulating narrative, Annan brings to life the world of Christopher Isherwood and W.H. Auden, of Graham Greene and Evelyn Waugh, of Cyril Connolly and Cecil Beaton, of George Orwell and T. S. Eliot, among others.Filled with telling portraits, Our Age examines the movements that influenced this generation—pacifism, collectivism and modernism. Annan explores the cult of homosexuality and the new morality that pervaded his generation. And he shows why, in the age of appeasement and Munich, some became Marxists, and a handful of them Soviet spies, while others became Roman Catholics.Annan then takes the reader through his generation's youth and into its years in power and raises the questions that his generation must finally confront: What did this generation really achieve in science and scholarship? Did its members live up to their belief in personal liberty? What does their record in government look like today? How responsible were they for Britain's economic decline and the triumph of Thatcherism?Anecdotal, personal, and written with incomparable panache, Our Age is a stunning work of intellectual history.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Our Age: English Intellectuals Between the World Wars: A Group Portrait. To get started finding Our Age: English Intellectuals Between the World Wars: A Group Portrait, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Acclaimed as "a tour-de-force" by the Observer and as "a superb achievement" by the Sunday Telegraph, Noel Annan's Our Age paints a portrait of his generation—the men and women who created and led postwar Britain.Our Age tells the story of the intellectuals formed by Cambridge, Oxford, and the London School of Economics between 1920 and 1949, the people who in turn shaped the literature, science and politics of their age—and to some extent ours. In a wonderfully detailed and always stimulating narrative, Annan brings to life the world of Christopher Isherwood and W.H. Auden, of Graham Greene and Evelyn Waugh, of Cyril Connolly and Cecil Beaton, of George Orwell and T. S. Eliot, among others.Filled with telling portraits, Our Age examines the movements that influenced this generation—pacifism, collectivism and modernism. Annan explores the cult of homosexuality and the new morality that pervaded his generation. And he shows why, in the age of appeasement and Munich, some became Marxists, and a handful of them Soviet spies, while others became Roman Catholics.Annan then takes the reader through his generation's youth and into its years in power and raises the questions that his generation must finally confront: What did this generation really achieve in science and scholarship? Did its members live up to their belief in personal liberty? What does their record in government look like today? How responsible were they for Britain's economic decline and the triumph of Thatcherism?Anecdotal, personal, and written with incomparable panache, Our Age is a stunning work of intellectual history.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Our Age: English Intellectuals Between the World Wars: A Group Portrait. To get started finding Our Age: English Intellectuals Between the World Wars: A Group Portrait, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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