{"product_id":"9781032069609","title":"The Life of John Middleton Murry","description":"\u003cp\u003eFirst Published in 1959, \u003ci\u003eThe Life of John Middleton Murry \u003c\/i\u003eis the first biography of one of the most controversial figures in English letters. Many people know Middleton Murry in one or other of his capacities: as editor (of the \u003ci\u003eavant-grade\u003c\/i\u003e magazine \u003ci\u003eRhythm\u003c\/i\u003e, while he was still an undergraduate, of \u003ci\u003eThe Athenaeum \u003c\/i\u003ein its last, most brilliant phase, \u003ci\u003eThe Adelphi\u003c\/i\u003e in the 1920s, \u003ci\u003ePeace News\u003c\/i\u003e in the ‘40s); as the foremost critique of his day; as author of some forty books on literary, religious and social questions; as the husband of Katherine Mansfield and intimate of D.H. Lawrence; as prophet, politician or farmer…. Few, even of his most vigorous champions or opponents, discerned the consistent purpose uniting all his multifarious activities. To trace that is the principal aim of this book. Believing that the duty of the ‘official biographer’ is rather to present than interpret, the author makes no attempt to evaluate Murry’s theories objectively, confining himself to showing how intimately they grew out of his strange, tragic (and occasionally comic) experience. At the same time, he makes no secret of his own view of Murry’s significance both as a thinker and as ‘the representative figure of an age of breakneck social transition’. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Life of John Middleton Murry will be of interest to scholars and researchers of historical biographies, British history, and literature. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46259833340145,"sku":"9781032069609","price":49.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0674\/5433\/7265\/files\/9781032069609_p0.jpg?v=1765046773","url":"https:\/\/shop.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781032069609","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble","version":"1.0","type":"link"}