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Writers' Letters
Jane Austen to Chinua Achebe
Buch von Michael Bird (u. a.)
Sprache: Englisch

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This is an intriguing collection of carefully selected letters from great writers which provide us with a unique insight into their characters and a glimpse into their lives. Letters and notes are reproduced, together with a transcript of the correspondence and background details which provide fascinating context. Arranged thematically, the book includes writings and musings on love, happiness, work, daily life, money, politics, travel and the creative process, and shows us the treasures to be found in a simple letter.
This is an intriguing collection of carefully selected letters from great writers which provide us with a unique insight into their characters and a glimpse into their lives. Letters and notes are reproduced, together with a transcript of the correspondence and background details which provide fascinating context. Arranged thematically, the book includes writings and musings on love, happiness, work, daily life, money, politics, travel and the creative process, and shows us the treasures to be found in a simple letter.
Über den Autor

Michael Bird is a writer, art historian and radio broadcaster. He has published many books, essays and articles on modern and contemporary art. His books include Artists' Letters (2019) and 100 Ideas That Changed Art (2012).

Orlando Bird is a journalist who writes on art and culture, and is a regular contributor to The Telegraph and The Financial Times. He lives in London.

Inhaltsverzeichnis
01. 'Got My Steam Up': Work in Progress
Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, T.S. Eliot, Henrik Ibsen, Doris Lessing, Norman Mailer, Yukio Mishima, Sylvia Plath

02. 'In This Strange Country': Places and People
Elizabeth Bishop, Charlotte Bronte, Colette, Federico Garcia Lorca, Vladimir Nabokov

03. 'My Glory Days': Writer to Writer
Samuel Beckett, Anton Chekhov, Joseph Conrad, E.M. Forster, Ernest Hemingway, Toni Morrison, Iris Murdoch, V.S. Naipaul, Leo Tolstoy, William Butler Yeats, Emile Zola

04. 'The Dreadful Steel': When Troubles Come
Charles Baudelaire, Walter Benjamin, Frances Burney, Miguel de Cervantes, Franz Kafka, Arthur Rimbaud, Paul Verlaine, Oscar Wilde

05. 'I Love Your Verse': Friends and Lovers
Guillaume Apollinaire, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, John Berryman, Emily Dickinson, Mary Godwin, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John Keats, Philip Larkin, Arthur Miller, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Virginia Woolf

06. 'Yes I Am Radical': This is History
George Eliot, Gustave Flaubert, Nadine Gordimer, Victor Hugo, Zora Neale Hurston, Samuel Johnson, Jack Kerouac, Siegfried Sassoon, Stendhal, Mark Twain

07. 'Too Darned Stupid': Patrons, Public, Publishers
Chinua Achebe, Honoré de Balzac, Bertolt Brecht, Angela Carter, Shelagh Delaney, David Foster Wallace, Thomas Hardy, James Joyce, D.H. Lawrence, Ezra Pound, Ayn Rand, George Bernard Shaw, Jonathan Swift

08. 'That's All': Last Words
Lord Byron, Seamus Heaney, Katherine Mansfield, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Mary Wollstonecraft, Stefan Zweig
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Genre: Lyrik & Dramatik
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Buch
Seiten: 224
Inhalt: Gebunden
ISBN-13: 9780711248755
ISBN-10: 0711248753
Sprache: Englisch
Herstellernummer: 328429
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Bird, Michael
Bird, Orlando
Hersteller: Quarto
Ivy Press
White Lion
Frances Lincoln
Abbildungen: colour
Maße: 240 x 175 x 27 mm
Von/Mit: Michael Bird (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum: 09.11.2021
Gewicht: 0,862 kg
preigu-id: 118014875
Über den Autor

Michael Bird is a writer, art historian and radio broadcaster. He has published many books, essays and articles on modern and contemporary art. His books include Artists' Letters (2019) and 100 Ideas That Changed Art (2012).

Orlando Bird is a journalist who writes on art and culture, and is a regular contributor to The Telegraph and The Financial Times. He lives in London.

Inhaltsverzeichnis
01. 'Got My Steam Up': Work in Progress
Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, T.S. Eliot, Henrik Ibsen, Doris Lessing, Norman Mailer, Yukio Mishima, Sylvia Plath

02. 'In This Strange Country': Places and People
Elizabeth Bishop, Charlotte Bronte, Colette, Federico Garcia Lorca, Vladimir Nabokov

03. 'My Glory Days': Writer to Writer
Samuel Beckett, Anton Chekhov, Joseph Conrad, E.M. Forster, Ernest Hemingway, Toni Morrison, Iris Murdoch, V.S. Naipaul, Leo Tolstoy, William Butler Yeats, Emile Zola

04. 'The Dreadful Steel': When Troubles Come
Charles Baudelaire, Walter Benjamin, Frances Burney, Miguel de Cervantes, Franz Kafka, Arthur Rimbaud, Paul Verlaine, Oscar Wilde

05. 'I Love Your Verse': Friends and Lovers
Guillaume Apollinaire, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, John Berryman, Emily Dickinson, Mary Godwin, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John Keats, Philip Larkin, Arthur Miller, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Virginia Woolf

06. 'Yes I Am Radical': This is History
George Eliot, Gustave Flaubert, Nadine Gordimer, Victor Hugo, Zora Neale Hurston, Samuel Johnson, Jack Kerouac, Siegfried Sassoon, Stendhal, Mark Twain

07. 'Too Darned Stupid': Patrons, Public, Publishers
Chinua Achebe, Honoré de Balzac, Bertolt Brecht, Angela Carter, Shelagh Delaney, David Foster Wallace, Thomas Hardy, James Joyce, D.H. Lawrence, Ezra Pound, Ayn Rand, George Bernard Shaw, Jonathan Swift

08. 'That's All': Last Words
Lord Byron, Seamus Heaney, Katherine Mansfield, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Mary Wollstonecraft, Stefan Zweig
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Genre: Lyrik & Dramatik
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Buch
Seiten: 224
Inhalt: Gebunden
ISBN-13: 9780711248755
ISBN-10: 0711248753
Sprache: Englisch
Herstellernummer: 328429
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Bird, Michael
Bird, Orlando
Hersteller: Quarto
Ivy Press
White Lion
Frances Lincoln
Abbildungen: colour
Maße: 240 x 175 x 27 mm
Von/Mit: Michael Bird (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum: 09.11.2021
Gewicht: 0,862 kg
preigu-id: 118014875
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