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Seven Pillars of Wisdom is an autobiographical account of his experiences during the Arab Revolt of 1916–1918, when Lawrence was based in Wadi Rum in Jordan as a member of the British Forces. With the support of Emir Faisal and his tribesmen, he helped organise and carry out attacks on the Ottoman forces from Aqaba in the south to Damascus in ...
Seven Pillars of Wisdom, (1922, revised and shortened in 1926) - an account of Lawrence's part in the Arab Revolt. (ISBN 0-8488-0562-3) Revolt in the Desert, a further abridged version of Seven Pillars of Wisdom published for the general public. (ISBN 1-56619-275-7)
In Seven Pillars of Wisdom (1935), T. E. Lawrence described Clayton's role as chief of British intelligence in Egypt between 1914 and 1917: Clayton made the perfect leader for such a band of wild men as we were. He was calm, detached, clear-sighted, of unconscious courage in assuming responsibility. He gave an open run to his subordinates.
Seven pillars of Ismailism in Shia Islam and in Nizari Ismailism; Seven pillars of scholarly wisdom by the Jesus Seminar; Seven Pillars of Wisdom, the autobiographical account of T. E. Lawrence ("Lawrence of Arabia") The Seven Pillars of Life described by Daniel E. Koshland; The Seven Pillars of Servant Leadership, a book by James Sipe and Don ...
The most vehement critic of its accuracy was Professor A. W. Lawrence, T. E. Lawrence's younger brother and literary executor, who had sold the rights to Seven Pillars of Wisdom to Spiegel for £25,000 and went on a campaign in the United States and Britain to denounce the film. He said, "I should not have recognised my own brother".
Wisdom has built her house, she has hewn out her seven pillars; [14] "Seven pillars": may refer to 'the habitable world' (cf. Proverbs 8:31; the equation of the house and the world in Proverbs 8:29; Job 38:6; Psalm 104:5). [15] "Seven" is regarded as 'a number for completeness and sacredness', giving the idea that wisdom produces a perfect ...
[11] He calls the book "the austere masterpiece", [11] comparing it with Apsley Cherry-Garrard's The Worst Journey in the World, C. M. Doughty's Travels in Arabia Deserta and T. E. Lawrence's Seven Pillars of Wisdom. He notes that Thesiger's writing can be vivid, "but in general his prose is terse, declarative, coolly observational."
They have also attracted other notables including; T. E. Lawrence, who wrote much of his Seven Pillars of Wisdom at No. 14, Barton Street; the actor, John Gielgud, who lived at No. 16, Cowley Street and the composer Ralph Vaughan Williams, who had a six-year tenure at No.10, Barton Street.