{"product_id":"2026200015451-secondhand-memories","title":"Memories","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFew figures in twentieth-century Oxford cut as distinctive a silhouette as Sir Cecil Maurice Bowra — classicist, wit, Warden of Wadham College, and tireless champion of modern poetry — and Memories stands as his vivid, frank self-portrait of a life lived at the very heart of literary and academic culture. Published in 1966, this autobiography chronicles Bowra's remarkable journey from a childhood shaped by colonial China and English public school to the gilded common rooms of Oxford, where he forged friendships with some of the greatest minds of the age, among them W.H. Auden, Isaiah Berlin, and John Betjeman.\n\nWritten with the elegant precision and dry, urbane wit that characterised all of Bowra's prose, the memoir presents an intimate window into the intellectual and social currents that defined early-to-mid twentieth-century Britain. Beyond its charm as personal narrative, Memories stands as a significant document of cultural history, illuminating the Oxford of the interwar years with an insider's authority and a classicist's eye for telling detail. Readers drawn to lives richly and purposefully lived will find themselves wondering, long after the final page, what it truly meant to belong to that vanished world.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49203214385371,"sku":"2026200015451-SECONDHAND","price":15.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/c0ae7108-dcab-42c2-b109-503b8fd661d6.png?v=1788145976","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200015451-secondhand-memories","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}