T. E. Lawrence Livres

Seven Pillars of Wisdom is an unusual and rich work. It encompasses an account of the Arab Revolt against the Turks during the First World War alongside general Middle Eastern and military history, politics, adventure and drama. It is also a memoir of the soldier known as 'Lawrence of Arabia'.Lawrence is a fascinating and controversial figure and his talent as a vivid and imaginative writer shines through on every page of this, his masterpiece. Seven Pillars of Wisdom provides a unique portrait of this extraordinary man and an insight into the birth of the Arab nation.

Profiles the enigmatic soldier, statesman, and man of letters, offering a wealth of letters that shed light on his role in the Arab revolt, his sexuality, and his retreat into obscurity

Presented here with 13 key photographs and letters to his mother, the diary shows the young T.E. Lawrence developing a strong respect for the Arab people and already involved in Arabian politics.

T.E. Lawrence, also known as "Lawrence of Arabia," wrote Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph from his memories of serving as a liaison officer with rebel forces during the Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Turks (1916-1918). Possessed of a brilliant military mind and an unmatched knowledge of the region and the Arab people, Lawrence led the revolt alongside the charismatic Faisal I, sounding the death knell for the Ottoman Empire and paving the way for a new colonial power in the region: the British. Writing from memory after his original manuscript and detailed notes were lost, Lawrence was able to privately publish a polished version of his autobiograhpical account in 1922. It is from this edition that he created the abridged version in 1927 which would become a best-seller, titling it Revolt in the Desert. This important historic work vividly portrays one of the most turbulent periods in the history of the Middle East while offering rich insight into one of Britain's esteemed national heroes.

Ulysse, héros grec de la guerre de Troie, celui dont la ruse a permis de mettre fin à un siège de dix ans, voudrait regagner son île d'Ithaque, où l'attendent sa femme Pénélope et son fils Télémaque. Mais les dieux ne l'entendent pas ainsi.Sur le chemin du retour, il doit affronter le Cyclope, la magicienne Circé, les Sirènes au chant mortel, les monstres Charybde et Scylla, et bien d'autres encore...Aidé de la déesse Athéna, Ulysse parviendra-t-il à retrouver son palais et à se débarrasser des prétendants qui convoitent sa femme et ses biens ? Toutes les clés pour comprendre l'œuvre et le thème associéAvant de lire l'œuvre• L'essentiel sur l'auteur• Le contexte d'écriture de l'œuvreAu fil de l'œuvre• Des questionnaires sur les passages clés : compréhension et étude de la langue• L'enregistrement audio de ces extraits lus par un comédienLe dossier BIBLIOCOLLÈGE• L'essentiel sur l'œuvre• La structure de l'œuvre• Les personnages de l'œuvre• Le genre de l'œuvre• L'œuvre dans l'histoire des arts• Des films, des documents et des livres associés à l'œuvreLe GROUPEMENT DE TEXTES. Thème : Les monstres - Monstres effrayants et fascinants.

With an Introduction by Angus Calder.As Angus Calder states in his introduction to this edition, Seven Pillars of Wisdom is one of the major statements about the fighting experience of the First World War'. Lawrence's younger brothers, Frank and Will, had been killed on the Western Front in 1915. Seven Pillars of Wisdom, written between 1919 and 1926, tells of the vastly different campaign against the Turks in the Middle East - one which encompasses gross acts of cruelty and revenge and ends in a welter of stink and corpses in the disgusting 'hospital' in Damascus.Seven Pillars of Wisdom is no Boys Own Paper tale of Imperial triumph, but a complex work of high literary aspiration which stands in the tradition of Melville and Dostoevsky, and alongside the writings of Yeats, Eliot and Joyce..

In the desert sands of southern Jordan lies a once-hidden conflict landscape along the Hejaz Railway. Built at the beginning of the twentieth-century, this narrow-gauge 1,320 km track stretched from Damascus to Medina and served to facilitate participation in the annual Muslim Hajj to Mecca. The discovery and archaeological investigation of an unknown landscape of insurgency and counter-insurgency along this route tells a different story of the origins of modern guerrilla warfare, the exploits of T. E. Lawrence, Emir Feisal, and Bedouin warriors, and the dramatic events of the Arab Revolt of 1916-18. Ten years of research in this prehistoric terrain has revealed sites lost for almost 100 years: vast campsites occupied by railway builders; Ottoman Turkish machine-gun redoubts; Rolls Royce Armoured Car raiding camps; an ephemeral Royal Air Force desert aerodrome; as well as the actual site of the Hallat Ammar railway ambush. This unique and richly illustrated account from Nicholas Saunders tells, in intimate detail, the story of a seminal episode of the First World War and the reshaping of the Middle East that followed.