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The Unexpected Professor: An Oxford Life, by John Carey, Faber, RRP£, pages. I’m not sure John Carey and I would have been friends at university. “I spent as little time as I could Estimated Reading Time: 4 mins.  · John Carey has been, among other things, a professor of English at Oxford, a prominent reviewer and book-prize judge, and an ardent bee-keeper. He tells us that he considered writing a history of Author: Stefan Collini. The Unexpected Professor ebook mid; An Oxford Life in Books By John Carey. Read a Sample. Sign up to save your library. With an OverDrive account, you can save your favorite libraries for at-a-glance information about availability. Find out more about OverDrive accounts.

In The Unexpected Professor: An Oxford Life in Books, John Carey - English professor at Oxford, controversial commentator, book critic and beekeeper - reflects on a life immersed in literature, from grammar school beginnings to the Oxford establishmentThis text refers to the hardcover edition. John Carey, FBA, FRSL (born 5 April ) is a British literary critic, and post-retirement () emeritus Merton Professor of English Literature at the University of www.doorway.ru is known for his anti-elitist views on high culture, as expounded in several www.doorway.ru has twice chaired the Booker Prize committee, in and , and chaired the judging panel for the first Man Booker International. A review of The Unexpected Professor: An Oxford Life in Books by John Carey. Share J ohn Carey is a man of the left: When I attended his lectures on Milton at Oxford back in the mids, I sensed a radical fervor akin to that of Cromwell's blind attack dog that made me vaguely consider signing up with the Cavaliers.

The Unexpected Professor: An Oxford Life, by John Carey, Faber, RRP£, pages. I’m not sure John Carey and I would have been friends at university. “I spent as little time as I could. Read "The Unexpected Professor An Oxford Life in Books" by Professor John Carey available from Rakuten Kobo. Best known for his provocative take on cultural issues in The Intellectuals and the Masses and What Good Are the Arts?. John Carey's The Unexpected Professor tells, with a stream of good anecdotes and pen portraits, how a Surrey grammar-school boy won a scholarship to Oxford in the s and (rather to his amazement, as he is modest) eventually became Merton Professor of English Literature at that university.