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Name: Robert Byron
Birth Date: February 26, 1905
Death Date: February 24, 1941
Nationality: British
Ethnicity: British
Gender: Male

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Biography of Robert Byron
6,706 words, approx. 22 pages
On 24 February 1941 the destroyer transporting Robert Byron to Meshed, Iran, was torpedoed off the north coast of Scotland above Stornoway. There were no survivors. At the time the newspapers reported that he had been on his way to Cairo to serve as a...


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Robert Byron Information
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Robert Byron (1905-1941) was a British travel writer, best known for his travelogue The Road to Oxiana. He was also a noted writer, art critic and historian. Byron was born in 1905, and educated at Eton and Merton College, Oxford. He died in 1941,...


News and Journals
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The Independent - London
Dear Byron Roberts
05/03/1994: 475 words, approx. 2 pages
It can't be much fun working at the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency. Since 1988, when Paul Channon, then Transport Secretary, authorised personalised number plates on the basis that they would "add to the enjoyment of the nation" and you became the marketing...
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New Criterion
Insolent humanism.(Robert Byron)(Book Review)
03/01/2004: 1,620 words, approx. 5 pages
James Knox Robert Byron. John Murray, 493 pages, 25 [pounds sterling] Nuremberg, September 1938: the week-long Parteitag, or Nazi Party Congress, is in full swing. At one session, in the very first row, sits Unity Mitford, indulging to the hilt her groupie's...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Bruce Chatwin
2,690 words, approx. 9 pages
In the following essay, Chatwin expresses his admiration for The Road to Oxiana.
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Critical Essay by G. M. Young
1,972 words, approx. 7 pages
In the following essay, Young praises Byron's display of insight and adept prose style in The Road to Oxiana.
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Critical Essay by Graham Greene
693 words, approx. 2 pages
In the following review of The Road to Oxiana, Greene discusses what he considers the book's strengths and shortcomings.


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