| My Early Life: 1874-1904 |  | Auteur: Winston Churchill
Éditeur: Pocket Books
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Langues: Anglais (Unknown), Anglais (Original Language), Anglais (Published)
Média: Broché
Pages: 400
Poids (kg): 0.8
Dimension (cm): 8.4 x 5.6 x 1.1
ISBN: 0684823454
EAN: 9780684823454
ASIN: 0684823454
Date de publication: Juin 1, 1996
Disponibilité: Expédition sous 1 à 2 jours ouvrés
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The voice of a vanished England speaks from the pages of Winston Churchill's evocative memoir of his first 30 years (1874-1904). The young Churchill inhabits a world in which men fight like hell in meaningless colonial wars--India, Egypt, South Africa--soldiering across the imperial map then extending the hand of friendship to their erstwhile enemy as if they were schoolmates at Harrow. Yet Churchill, born into a privileged family, was not an uncritical supporter of the Victorian status quo. He himself loathed Harrow; an especially amusing chapter skewers the school's emphasis on an irrelevant classical education and rote learning. A firm Tory, he considered himself a friend of the working class, and in 1899 campaigned for parliament with a Socialist colleague. Looking back from his vantage point of 1930, Churchill expresses the most attractive values of the English aristocracy--honor, loyalty, fair play--without giving the impression he wants to live in the past. The book's appeal also stems from its magisterial but colloquial prose. Anyone familiar with recordings of Churchill's rousing speeches during Word War II will hear in their minds' ears that growling timbre and unmistakably patrician accent as they read. Though he would have preferred the peace prize, My Early Life offers good evidence that Churchill's 1953 Nobel for literature was aptly awarded. --Wendy Smith
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