3.5 

Seven Pillars of Wisdom

By T.E. Lawrence
Seven Pillars of Wisdom by T.E. Lawrence digital book - Fable

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Seven Pillars of Wisdom is 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 his masterpiece. 'Seven Pillars of Wisdom' written between 1919 and 1926, is an extraordinary tale of action, politics and adventure. The story describes heroism through instances of war by a man who not only shaped events but was molded by them. 

The genre of the book can be related to many broad subjects like political history, military strategy, pathology or travel story. Lawrence, known as the defender of the empire, had found war in the Arab world and a long-lasting sideline to the War to End All Wars. This war produced more war during the time, in which, along with many other eminent writers, Lawrence was also involved. Seven Pillars of Wisdom provides a unique portrait of this extraordinary man and an insight into the birth of the Arab nation.

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3.5
“Reading Seven Pillars of Wisdom is a pilgrimage through the vast deserts of Arabia, through the last remnants of Rome (if you squint, the Arab Revolt was like the blowing out of the final ember of the two-thousand-year-old fire of the Roman Empire), and into the conflicted mind of a mythical figure of WWI. In a book of enormous moments (which will forever inform my understanding of the region, still very relevant today), it was the small, lonely, reflective episodes that will stay with me, like when he falls one night in a snow bank alone and has to dig out his trusty old female camel, or when when he reflects during a night on the desert with his comrades: ‘And the stars – what are they?’ We slipped into talk of suns beyond suns, sizes and distance beyond wit. ‘What will now happen with this knowledge?’ asked Mohammed. ‘We shall set to, and many learned and some clever men together will make glasses as more powerful than ours, as ours than Galileo’s; and yet more hundreds of astronomers will distinguish and reckon yet more thousands of now unseen stars, mapping them, and giving each one its name. When we see them all, there will be no night in heaven…’”
“DNF: it has great writing but it a massively long recounting of random events through a war and just goes on and on. Probably the perfect boo for someone but not me.”

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