Author: Noel Annan
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Keywords: geniuses, eccentrics, mentors, dons
Number of Pages: 367
Published: 2001-08-05
List price: $17.50
ISBN-10: 0226021084
ISBN-13: 9780226021089

For two hundred years Oxford and Cambridge Universities were home to some of Britain’s greatest teachers and intellects, each forming the minds of the passing generations of students and influencing the thinking and practice of university learning throughout the country and the world.In this entertaining, informative book, Noel Annan is at his incisive best. Displaying his customary mastery of his subject, he describes the great dons in all their glory and eccentricities: who they were, what they were like, why they mattered, and what their legacy is. Written with love and wisdom, the gr