Seven Pillars of Wisdom (Wordsworth Classics of World Literature) (Paperback)

Seven Pillars of Wisdom remains--like its enigmatic creator--brilliant and controversial. It describes, in the words of E. M. Forster, 'the revolt in Arabia against the Turks, as it appeared to an Englishman who took part. Round this tent-pole of a military chronicle T. E. has hung an unexampled fabric of portraits, descriptions, philosophies, emotions, adventures, dreams. He has brought to his task a fastidious scholarship, an impeccable memory, a style nicely woven of Oxfordisms and Doughty, an eye unparalleled . . . a profound distrust of himself, a still profounder faith.'

'As certain of immortality as anything written in English for half a century' --John Buchan

'It may be said of him that he suffered, in his own person, the neurotic ills of an entire generation' --Christopher Isherwood

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