Description: Of Farming and Classics: A Memoir Author: David Grene Title: Of Farming and Classics: A Memoir Publication: University of Chicago Press, 2006 Description: Hardcover. New tightly bound hardcover in new dust jacket. 8vo. (5.25 x 0.9 x 8 inches) Text is clean and free of marks or underlining. includes photos. 184 pp.Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. New / New. A fiercely independent thinker, colorful storyteller, and spirited teacher, David Grene devoted his life to two things: farming, which he began as a boy in Ireland and continued into old age; and classics, which he taught for several decades that culminated in his translating and editing, with Richmond Lattimore, of The Complete Greek Tragedies.In this charming memoir, which he wrote during the years leading up to his death in 2002 at the age of eighty-nine, Grene weaves together these interests to tell a quirky and absorbing story of the sometimes turbulent and always interesting life he split between the University of Chicago—where he helped found the Committee on Social Thought—and the farm he kept back in Ireland.Charting the path that took him from Europe to Chicago in 1937, and encompassing his sixty-five-year career at the university, Grene’s book draws readers into the heady and invigorating climate of his time there. And it is elegantly balanced with reflections stemming from his work on the farm where he hunted, plowed and regularly traveled on horseback to bring his cows home for milking. Grene’s form and humor are quite his own, and his brilliant storytelling will enthrall anyone interested in the classics, rural Ireland, or twentieth-century intellectual history, especially as it pertains to the University of Chicago. Seller ID: 200618 Subject: Literature , Memoirs and Biographies The Anthropologists Closet offers a wide variety of non-fiction academic books that are hard to find. We have been in business since 2014. Terms All orders ship within two business days. All items are guaranteed to be as described or they may be returned within 30 days of receipt for a full refund.This listing was created by Bibliopolis.
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Book Title: Of Farming and Classics: A Memoir
Author: David Grene
Language: English
ISBN: 9780226308012
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication Year: 2006
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