Eric hobsbawm biography summary rubric

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(1) Eric Hobsbawm, Interesting Times: A Twentieth Life (2002)

In the late evening of Friday 8 February 1929 my father returned from another of his increasingly desperate visits to town in search of money to earn or borrow, and collapsed outside the front door of our house.

My mother heard his groans through the upstairs window and, when she opened them on the freezing air of that spectacularly hard alpine winter, she heard him calling to her. Within a few minutes he was dead, I assume from a heart attack.

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He was forty-eight years old. In dying, he also condemned to death my mother, who could not forgive herself for the way she felt she had treated him in what turned out to be the last terrible months, indeed the very last days, of his life…

Within two and a half years she was dead also, at the age of thirty-six.

I have always assumed that her many self-lacerating, underdressed visits to his grave in the harsh winter months after his deat