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Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph
Topics messages Last message Kindley Book Club : Whatcha reading part two 86 garrybuck , Monday 6:50pm20-Something LibraryThingers : What's your favorite book in your library? 122 asukamaxwell , December 2009List Five Books Parlour Game : Metaphorically Speaking.................................. 25 tropics , December 2009Le Salon Litteraire du Peuple pour le Peuple : Your personal top 10 all time favorites list(s) 296 tomcatMurr , November 2009Le Salon Litteraire du Peuple pour le Peuple : Less well known books I have read and loved. 121 shelbyh17 , November 20091010 Category Challenge : Marie's 101010 Challenge 32 _Zoe_ , October 2009Bestsellers over the Years : 1935 13 geneg , September 2009Folio Society devotees : Which books would you like to see as Folio volumes? 453 mailer , August 2009Folio Society devotees : Lawrence of Arabia 15 boldface , August 2009Non-Fiction Readers : 1001 non fiction books to read before you die 41 omaca , July 2009History: On learning from and writing history : Is there a movie that helped you understand history better? 22 LamSon , July 200975 Books Challenge for 2009 : Books you haven't finished 17 clfisha , July 2009Dormant: Political Conservatives : Come On, If Bin Laden Isn't A Girly Boy, No One Is 29 Doug1943 , June 2009Dormant: What Are You Reading Now? : What are you reading the week of 2 May. 2009 226 SomeGuyInVirginia , June 2009Dormant: Non-Fiction Readers : Our Non-Fic Reading , May 2009 ? 82 msf59 , June 2009Dormant: What Are You Reading Now? : Books Brought Home, May 2009 part 2 121 LadyViolet , June 2009Dormant: Book talk : Best dirty books 16 ReadStreetDave , June 2009Dormant: Combiners! : Authors with same name 136 PortiaLong , May 2009Dormant: What Are You Reading Now? : What You Are Reading the Week of 25 April 2009 212 Breez , May 2009Dormant: What Are You Reading Now? : Another Meme--please forgive me 57 jnwelch , May 2009Dormant: History at 30,000 feet: The Big Picture : Recommended Books 12 marieke54 , April 2009Dormant: What Are You Reading Now? : Books that came home with you in March 2009 414 richardderus , April 2009Dormant: Pro and Con : Books for Obama 11 davidt8 , January 2009Dormant: Travel and Exploration literature : Looking for Arabian/Middle East Travel Lit (Pre 1950) 23 cosmicdolphin , August 2008Dormant: Book talk : Books about Middle east 6 hmajor , August 2008Dormant: Pro and Con : Books for Bush (taken from the Green Dragon) 14 mckait , August 2008Dormant: The Black Orchid (A Nero Wolfe Group) : Books about Stout/Wolfe 64 Eurydice , July 2008Dormant: Book talk : Another silly game to play. 671 LynnB , July 2008Dormant: List Five Books Parlour Game : Book titles with numerical figures or figures in words 38 SmithSJ01 , June 2008Dormant: Book talk : Another silly game---part 4 408 plohman , May 2008Dormant: War Books, War Authors : Reading List for Company Commanders Engaged in Training Iraqi Security Forces 1 RobertMosher , May 2008Dormant: 1001 Books to read before you die : Lady Chatterley's Lover 9 jasmeyer , January 2008Dormant: 50 Book Challenge : Bookful's 50 Better Books 8 Bookful , December 2007Dormant: Military History : T.E. Lawrence 17 Just1MoreBook , November 2007Dormant: Military History : : What are you reading this week (09/02/2007)? 12 Ammianus , September 2007Dormant: What did YOU buy today? : What did you buy Today? August 2007 Edition 86 thioviolight , September 2007Dormant: What did YOU buy today? : What did you buy today (July, 2007)? 91 thioviolight , August 2007Dormant: Book talk : Memorable First Sentences 76 varielle , July 2007Dormant: T.E. Lawrence : Shared books 5 Amiziras , July 2007Dormant: List Five Books Parlour Game : How many was that? 32 Antares1 , June 2007Dormant: Reading Globally : Reading through Current Events... 7 varielle , June 2007Dormant: T.E. Lawrence : Lawrence: The Uncrowned King of Arabia 6 perodicticus , December 2006
I just downloaded The Seven Pillars of Wisdom by T.E. Lawrence to my kindle for $1.05. I already own the 1991 printed version which was based on an "abridged" version Lawrence wrote in 1926 hoping to get some much needed cash. His previous version, written in 1922, is longer than the 1926 ...
>24 Seven Pillars of Wisdom is utterly superb. The opening dedicatory poem is one of my all time favourites. I wish he had written more.
I loved you, so I drew these tides of men into my hands
and wrote my will across the sky in stars
To earn you Freedom, the seven pillared worthy house,
...
... partisan in some of its political analysis, but the writing is terrific all the same.
Also heavy is T.E. Lawrence's Seven Pillars of Wisdom which I'd recommend for similar reasons, though it's not quite as good as the above, and it plays free and easy with the historical facts. However, ...
... based on the writers own inner world - the other 2 books to which this degree of personalised history was attributed were Seven Pillars of Wisdom and The Anatomy of Melancholy).
In fact, thinking about this today I came to the conclusion that it is not too far distant to Proust. West ...
... based on the writers own inner world - the other 2 books to which this degree of personalised history was attributed were Seven Pillars of Wisdom and The Anatomy of Melancholy).
In fact, thinking about this today I came to the conclusion that it is not too far distant to Proust. West ...
I read The Seven Pillars of Wisdom a couple of years after first seeing and falling in love with "Lawrence of Arabia" and expected the book to follow along, more or less, (the naivete of the young). I was enthralled by the book, even more than the movie. I enjoyed it heartily.
7. Middle East
1. Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi
2. Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph by T. E. Lawrence
I thought I'd try for one modern read and one not so modern read.
I think most people would agree that Seven Pillars is the better book. Revolt in the Desert was put together very hurriedly and Lawrence's heart was very much with Seven Pillars which he hoped and intended would stand comparison with what he considered the really great books of literature. He ...
... and in which Lawrence attempts to justify his position in the historical events and gives a version of the gestation of Seven Pillars . The 'Introductory Chapter' is included in reprints after 1939.
However, the FS edition does not reproduce the original illustrations of leading figures in ...
... to the Castle Hill Press editions for some years. They have published exhaustive accounts of the publication history of Seven Pillars as a background to their publication of the complete 1922 text and very interesting it is. Lawrence returned from his desert exploits a troubled man and his ...
The publication history of Seven Pillars is quite complicated. Basically, Lawrence's earliest extant text is the so-called 'Oxford' text. This, the result of much rewriting and revision, he had privately printed in a handful of copies in 1922. He circulated these to various friends and critics ...
... think this must be one of the first posts to dissuade somebody from buying a FS book. Having read a bit more about it too, Seven Pillars sounds better. The Wikipedia entry suggest FS is lying somewhat that Revolt in the Desert predates Seven Pillars as it notes George Bernard Shaw's remark of ...
I have the Folio edition of Seven Pillars which is beautiful with it's desert sand coloured binding and David Eccles "Boys Own" cover design. Alas, I have not read it yet.
I think that Revolt in the Desert is a shortended popular version of Seven Pillars ?
Seven Pillars of Wisdom is one of my favorite books of all time. It was one of the first books that got me interested in serious reading in my distant youth. I have read Revolt in the Desert, but I prefer the much lengthier and more detailed Seven Pillars.
I have several editions of Seven Pi ...
If I am not mistaken, the film was based on TE Lawrence's Seven Pillars of Wisdom rather than Revolt in the Desert. Seven Pillars of Wisdom is by far one of my favorite books of all time. I have several editions, but alas not the Folio edition.
... of his essays, or maybe Wonderful Life)
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... have to be bad books, just ones that you always seem to be perpetually in the middle of.
My most constant ones are The Seven Pillars of Wisdom by T.E. Lawrence (of Arabia fame) and The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton. I enjoy reading both of them, but never seem to be able to get ...
... vivid recreaton of the roman army at war and a glimpse of how Rome may have looked. Lawrence of Arabia inspired me to read Seven Pillars of Wisdom .Gettysburg and the Ken Burns documentaries, plus Gore Vidal's Lincoln got me reading Shelby Footes magnificent 3 volume history. there was a ...
... of the mental passion which was welding our souls and spirits in one flaming effort...
T.E. Lawrence's Seven Pillars of Wisdom
I hope no one thinks less (or more) of me for posting this.
If you want sand between the sheets pages, I don't think you can improve on Seven pillars of wisdom . Except possibly with Beau Geste...
... Wallach's book, onto Dreamers of the Day (without the background, this would have been meaningless, and finally The Seven Pillars of Wisdom . Have fun.
I also went to Borders yesterday with a 40% coupon and found nothing to use it on. From the bargain books I got The West Point A ...
Last night I finished How to Read the Bible although I didn't read the numbered notes. Then I returned to Seven Pillars of Wisdom . I can commend both books.
Robert
This post was caused by slippage between universes; unlikely to be interesting unless you were there.
Please ignore.
Robert
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I sure the She-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed lines in Rumpole come from She.
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Couldn't make it through Seven Pillars of Wisdom . Haven't tried it again, but found T.E. Lawrence's Revolt in the Desert more to my liking.
#119 Robert ~ You've convinced me to put Seven Pillars of Wisdom on my TBR list for this year.
Coincidentally, I just watched (again) the film Lawrence of Arabia, which, though obviously shortened and glamorized in the "finest" Hollywood tradition, still is a pretty fascinating story. Guess ...
... that. I hope she makes a good lot of money from the book to supplement her civil service pension.
I turned back to Seven Pillars of Wisdom and made good headway, but I will almost certainly not finish the last two or three hundred pages by tomorrow night when we discuss Gertrude Bell. I ...
I'll be reading Seven Pillars of Wisdom until its end or Wednesday, whichever comes first.
Robert
There is a supernatural conspiracy against my reading Seven Pillars of Wisdom . I finally got up steam and was making headway, having been diverted by two novels, and the power went out just after midnight when I was within about five paragraphs of the end of a chapter. First duty today is to ...
Last night I read most of Cleft by Doris Lessing. I should be able easily to finish it tonight and get back to Seven Pillars of Wisdom . Cleft, though there are nits to pick, holds up; I have some cognitive dissonance with its genital orientation, but I have that with the genital ...
I am finally making headway against Seven Pillars of Wisdom having finished The Hindus: an alternative history and detouring through Islam: Religion of Peace. I'm looking for a novel for when I need diversion from novelistic history.
Robert
... second Samuel in the Old Testament; currently underway also are The Essential Dr. Strange, How to Read the Bible, and Seven Pillars of Wisdom .
... second Samuel in the Old Testament; currently underway also are The Essential Dr. Strange, How to Read the Bible, and Seven Pillars of Wisdom .
... second Samuel in the Old Testament; currently underway also are The Essential Dr. Strange, How to Read the Bible, and Seven Pillars of Wisdom .
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... to be spent productively, so I passed through the Nordstrom's men's department and went to Barny Noble's. He had a copy of Seven Pillars of Wisdom by T.E. Lawrence, so I bought it to go with the lives of Gertrude Bell that I am reading now.
I am of an age that Mad magazine and the whole ...
... of the "average Iraqi."
For background, fascinating reading, and early 20th C. history, I recommend T.E. Lawrence's Seven Pillars of Wisdom and David Fromkin's A Peace to End All Peace.
Finally, for a variety of viewpoints, I enjoyed the anthology Middle Eastern Muslim Women Speak. ...
... but I generally like the direction it's going in. It would not do him any harm to read my selection for Mr. Bush either--The seven pillars of wisdom . One book that I haven't read which I plan on some time soon would be The shock doctrine--Naomi Klein.
As for fiction I understand that he's ...
... that Harper is all that interested.
The best book IMO to send Mr. Bush first--although it's a little late now would be The seven pillars of wisdom by T. E. Lawrence aka Lawrence of Arabia which recounts the World War I era conflict in the region which is now mainly Iraq and is filled with a ...
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Has FS ever done T.E. Lawrence Seven Pillars of Wisdom . I have a couple of early editions but I don't think I have ever seen an FS edition.
#1> After Richard Burton, how about T E Lawrence's Seven Pillars of Wisdom ?
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Seven Pillars of Wisdom by T E Lawrence
... and Lovers, Lady Chatterly's Lover, Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, Death in Venice by Thomas Mann, Seven Pillars of Wisdom by T.E. Lawrence and more. The professor was a good writer, astute, but a bad writing teacher. Oh, well. But, the introduction to this ...
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The Seven Pillars of Wisdom has value in the sense that it is a primary text. Liddel Hart has value in the sense that he is an excellent secondary source. History teachers go on about the value of primary sources but not all primary sources can be authenticated. Primary sources have to backed ...
The Seven Pillars Of Wisdom - T.E. Lawrence
Hi all, I just finished a reread of Seven Pillars of Wisdom , and was wondering about its accuracy. I've read this a couple of times, for different purposes, but I'm not really familiar with the other literature surrounding Lawrence's exploits, especially for how reliable his own account actually ...
For fun, I'm reading Alistair Horne's The Fall of Paris. For studies, I'm (re)reading T.E. Lawrence Seven Pillars of Wisdom , looking for some specific ideas regarding insurgency. I'm also starting the third volume of Valery Giscard d'Estaing's (French President, 1974-1981) memoirs, ...
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There's also one book I didn't buy: I went to our bookstore to look for The Seven Pillars of Wisdom , but the only Lawrence book they had, was Lady Chatterley's Lover.
The absence of Seven Pillars of Wisdom and The Mint is even odder than the books we do have in common.
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I also got bogged down in Seven Pillars of Wisdom . I guess I was expecting Peter O'Toole.
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... Beyond Good and Evil by Nietzsche.
"Some of the evil in my tale may have been inherent in our circumstances." Seven Pillars of Wisdom by T. E. Lawrence.
"Already, beneath him, through the golden evening, the shadowed hills had dug their furrows and the plains grew luminous ...
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Does anyone find it odd that there are no books by or about Lawrence in our shared books? I would have expected Seven Pillars of Wisdom to be there, if nothing else.
... is the same as reading about current events. For instance, if you want to understand Iraq today, then T.E. Lawrence's Seven Pillars of Wisdom is an important (if dense) insight into why a country mixing Shias, Sunnis and Kurds exists to start with. I realise that this is my usual argument ...
Well the evidence is pretty strong that there was some exaggeration in Seven Pillars . The amount of damage he did for instance but I'd agree that Michael Asher goes too far.
jmnlman
Strategist's Personal Library
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... Lawrence: The Uncrowned King of Arabia and was quite disappointed. Asher is one of those highly skeptical biographers (Seven Pillars of Wisdom was exaggerated, the rape at Deraa never happened, Lawrence may actually have spent the war in Basingstoke, etc. etc.), and while I'm not one ...
... than any other one book in our language in the last century, Alice in Wonderland." A close second is T.E. Lawrence's The Seven Pillars of Wisdom .
When it comes to crime-mystery-detective fiction, Stout thinks Dashiell Hammett's The Maltese Falcon is "the best detective ...
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