Seven Pillars of Wisdom (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: T. E. Lawrence
- First Published: 1926
- Type of Work: History
- Setting: The Middle East
- Principal Characters: T. E. Lawrence, Sherif Feisal Ibn Hussein, Field Marshal Edmund H. H. Allenby, Sir Henry McMahon, Jemal Pasha, Sherif Hussein
- Genres: Nonfiction, History
- Subjects: 1910’s, England or English people, World War I, Egypt or Egyptians, Middle East, Turkey or Turkish people, Arabs
- Locales: Egypt, Syria, Mesopotamia
Unless the forces and countercurrents of world history change abruptly or virtually reverse themselves, it is unlikely that an Englishman will ever again have the opportunity to approximate the exploits and terrors, the sense of achievement and frustration, that T. E. Lawrence experienced and described in his Seven Pillars of Wisdom. This work is autobiographical history, lived by a most extraordinary and strangely gifted man.
The unusual qualities manifest in the author of Seven Pillars of Wisdom developed early. His lifelong interest in archaeology and his field...
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