T.E. LAWRENCE: The Selected Letters

by Malcolm--Ed. Brown ‧ RELEASE DATE: May 1, 1989

Correspondence of the legendary warrior/scholar, much of it published for the first time (being newly in the public domain after 50 years of top-secret classification). Editor Brown (coauthor, A Touch of Genius: The Life of T. E. Lawrence, p. 173) has chosen with an eye towards illuminating the conundrums--social misfit or uncompromising mystic? selfless missionary or parasitic opportunist?--that obscure our understanding of Lawrence. And so these letters, written between 1905-35 and often dashed off in the heat of action, do shed some--if still not enough--light on their author's complex nature, including the demons that drove him to hide away anonymously for the latter part of his extraordinary life.

Pub Date: May 1, 1989

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Norton

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: April 15, 1989

Categories: NONFICTION