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Thomas Edward Lawrence : Seven Pillars of Wisdom

'When "Seven Pillars of Wisdom" appeared at the end of July 1935, Winifred reviewed it in "Time and Tide".'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Winifred Holtby      Print: Book

Thomas Edward Lawrence : T. E. Lawrence by His Friends

'Last week worked through Lawrence of Arabia - tributes to him by his friends.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vere Hodgson      Print: Book

Thomas Edward Lawrence : Seven Pillars of Wisdom

I am so delighted to have 'The Seven Pillars'. I read the poem again, which I liked, and am keeping the rest for a little as all the household here are enjoying the book. I think the Arab portraits are among the finest things I have ever seen - but as for the British - do you think they were chosen purposely to look feeble-minded?

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Freya Stark      Print: Book

Thomas Edward Lawrence : Seven Pillars of Wisdom

I am reading 'The Seven Pillars'. The chapter about the Arab character is very true and finely put.

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Freya Stark      Print: Book

Thomas Edward Lawrence : The Seven Pillars of Wisdom

'Much T. E. Lawrence talk whom I knew slightly and always thought a bore and a bounder and a prig.... Storrs [Sir Ronald, an official in the British Foreign and Colonial Office] thinks he was unhinged by his manhandling by the Turks which he described in "The Seven Pillars of Wisdom"; a glorious book. Whatever else he was, Lawrence was a gifted and distinguished writer. John Buchan lent me his annotated copy of the "Seven Pillars" some years ago, and I read it all night and was called, finishing it, the next morning.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Henry Channon      Print: Book

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