Let dons delight

being variations on a theme in an Oxford common-room

by Ronald Arbuthnott Knox

1939 280 pages eng

"LET DONS DELIGHT (1939) is probably Msgr.Knox’s greatest literary achievement. It is satire but also history. In the words of Robert Speaight in his literary biography, Ronald Knox, the Writer, "Where the weapon of satire is exaggeration, the virtue of history is exactitude. This is the way dons ta…