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  • Seven Pillars of Wisdom

  • By: T.E. Lawrence
  • Narrated by: Jim Norton
  • Length: 3 hrs and 50 mins
  • 3.9 out of 5 stars (21 ratings)

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Seven Pillars of Wisdom

By: T.E. Lawrence
Narrated by: Jim Norton
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Summary

Although Lawrence of Arabia died in 1935, the story of his life has captured the imagination of succeeding generations. The Seven Pillars of Wisdom is a monumental work in which he chronicles his role in leading the Arab Revolt against the Turks during the First World War. A reluctant leader, and wracked by guilt at the duplicity of the British, Lawrence nevertheless threw himself into his role, suffering the blistering desert conditions and masterminding military campaigns which culminated in the triumphant march of the Arabs into Damascus.

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Lawrence's famous autobiographical history of the Arab wars of liberation from the Ottoman Empire during WWI is difficult to follow in this severe abridgment. The deeper historical milieu has to be known in detail by the listener for a full understanding. Nevertheless, Irish actor Jim Norton's voice aptly expresses this weary, steely, cultured Englishman with too much integrity for his times. Scenes of pain and horror are dryly presented, but Lawrence's anguish at governmental double-dealing comes clearly through. As usual, Naxos punctuates the narrative with well-chosen selections of stirring classical music.

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"It ranks with the greatest books ever written in the English language. As a narrative of war and adventure it is unsurpassable." (Winston Churchill)

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it was an okay book but it did not really grip me, I did enjoy it though, a great man, in a strange way.

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A badly abridged version!

Disappointed! All the meat left off the bones. Descriptions of the desert missing. The wonderful introduction missing! Unsatisfied by a meal missed!

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Too highly abridged

Well read but too much was cut out. summary didn't say it was abridged

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