'THE DONS: MENTORS, ECCENTRICS AND GENIUSES'

by Noel Annan

Hardcover with unclipped dust jacket, in very good condition. Light shelf wear to the jacket, content is as unread. LW

Genres: History, Biography, Nonfiction, Education, British Literature

Hardcover

First published February 1, 2000

Reviews

[Lauren Albert · Rating 4 out of 5]

I was disappointed that Annan seemed to write the book only for an initiated audience. Knowing little of the governance of British colleges and universities and the general culture, I sometimes struggled to understand. It seemed to me a mistake since it limits the book to the same people who might, in a hundred years, feature in a similar book. There can't be a huge audience there. Anyway, as someone who has always been fascinated with the British academic life (and who has fantasized about it a bit), I still found it interesting especially in later sections like the one on Isaiah Berlin. But I wouldn't recommend it for anyone who not of the above two categories (the initiated and the obsessed).

[Balloon Bruce · Rating 1 out of 5]

Kept waiting for really colorful characters, but they never made an appearance.

[James Dempsey · Rating 4 out of 5]

bowra berlin and browning. no more no less. oh and jowett too