The University of Oxford: A New History

The University of Oxford: A New History
ISBN-10
0857730258
ISBN-13
9780857730251
Series
The University of Oxford
Category
Education
Pages
597
Language
English
Published
2010-04-30
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Author
G.R. Evans

Description

A generation or so ago, the Inklings - C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien and Charles Williams - met regularly in an Oxford pub to encourage one another in the writing of fictions set in fantasy worlds... Philip Pullman's Gyptians live on an Oxford canal and it is from Oxford that his characters gain entry to another world... It is true that Oxford is a world to itself, a village where everyone stops in the Broad or the High to exchange local gossip... The visitor walking among the golden colleges may still see students setting off for examinations dressed in black and white... But encounters in the street are as likely to grapplings with politics (local, national and international) as exchanges about a point of scholarly detail... The 'reality' of Oxford is that it is not at all a land of faery.'

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