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Seven Pillars of Wisdom

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ThisWordsworthEditionincludesanexclusiveIntroductionbyAngusCalder.AsAngusCalderstatesinhisintroductiontothisedition,‘SevenPillarsofWisdomisoneofthemajorstatementsaboutthefightingexperienceoftheFirstWorldWar’.Lawrence'syoungerbrothers,FrankandWill,hadbeenkilledontheWesternFrontin1915.SevenPillarsofWisdom,writtenbetween1919and1926,tellsofthevastlydifferentcampaignagainsttheTurksintheMiddleEast-onewhichencompassesgrossactsofcrueltyandrevengeandendsinawelterofstinkandcorpsesinthedisgusting‘hospital’inDamascus.SevenPillarsofWisdomisnoBoysOwnPapertaleofImperialtriumph,butacomplexworkofhighliteraryaspirationwhichstandsinthetraditionofMelvilleandDostoevsky,andalongsidethewritingsofYeats,EliotandJoyce.

作者简介

T.E.Lawrencewasbornon16thAugust1888inTremadoginWales.HewasoneoffiveillegitimatechildrenborntotheSeventhBaronofWestmeath.HestudiedatJesusCollege,OxfordwherehebecameinterestedintheMiddleEast.HeworkedforBritishIntelligenceduringtheFirstWorldWarandfoughtwiththeArabforcestodefeattheTurks.Hisexploitsearnedhimthetitleof'LawrenceofArabia'backinBritain.Herresignedin1922andsoughtanonymityintheRAFwhereheenlistedasJohnHumeRoss.HelaterchangedhisnamebydeedpolltoT.E.Shaw.ShortlyafterretiringfromtheRAF,T.E.Lawrencediedinamotorcycleaccidenton19thMay1935.

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