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Let Dons Delight: Being Variations on a Theme in an Oxford Common Room
Let Dons Delight Being Variations on a Theme in an Oxford Common Room Author:Ronald Knox In this book the author (narrator) falls into a dream, imagining arguments between dons in an Oxford common room, beginning in 1588, and continuing at fifty year intervals (with different dons) through 1888. — RonaldKnox is able to duplicate the idioms of each period as the polite but argumentative dons discuss the affairs of church and state. Ad... more »ding to the humor, the dons often prognosticate as to what the future holds, and are nearly always wrong, as is revealed in the next half century.« less