Milestones On The Dover Road
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
A life devoted to the pages of Shakespeare yields a memoir unlike any other — Milestones on the Dover Road is John Dover Wilson's reflective and richly personal autobiography, charting the intellectual and personal journey of one of the twentieth century's most celebrated Shakespearean scholars. Wilson, the legendary editor of the New Cambridge Shakespeare, recounts the defining moments, encounters, and ideas that shaped a remarkable career spanning decades of literary scholarship, bringing to life the corridors of academia, the thrill of textual discovery, and the friendships forged along the way. Written with the warmth and authority of a man who spent a lifetime in intimate conversation with the greatest works in the English language, the memoir presents Wilson's world with wit, candour, and scholarly precision. His prose carries the gentle rhythm of a don at ease with his own legacy, yet bristles with intellectual curiosity — illuminating not only a personal history but the evolution of Shakespearean studies in the modern era. For those captivated by the life of the mind and the drama behind great literary scholarship, Wilson's road is one well worth travelling.
Author: John Dover Wilson
Format: Hardback
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
A life devoted to the pages of Shakespeare yields a memoir unlike any other — Milestones on the Dover Road is John Dover Wilson's reflective and richly personal autobiography, charting the intellectual and personal journey of one of the twentieth century's most celebrated Shakespearean scholars. Wilson, the legendary editor of the New Cambridge Shakespeare, recounts the defining moments, encounters, and ideas that shaped a remarkable career spanning decades of literary scholarship, bringing to life the corridors of academia, the thrill of textual discovery, and the friendships forged along the way. Written with the warmth and authority of a man who spent a lifetime in intimate conversation with the greatest works in the English language, the memoir presents Wilson's world with wit, candour, and scholarly precision. His prose carries the gentle rhythm of a don at ease with his own legacy, yet bristles with intellectual curiosity — illuminating not only a personal history but the evolution of Shakespearean studies in the modern era. For those captivated by the life of the mind and the drama behind great literary scholarship, Wilson's road is one well worth travelling.