Like all the best books, it's obvious that SPoW was written to primarily please its author but, as it soon becomes evident that Lawrence is almost impossible to please. It's incredibly dense, piling detail upon exhausting detail it's self-contradictory it's inconsistent it sprawls as a history, it's probably not the most reliable as an autobiography, the same could be said.īut really, today, who would dare? For to do so would risk editing out the most important part of Seven Pillars of Wisdom, the insight it offers into the character of the fascinating, flawed, simultaneously self-aggrandising and self-effacing, T E Lawrence. It's arguable that this book needs a thorough editing.
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