Four Unposted Letters to Catherine - Rilegato

Jackson, Laura (Riding)

 
9780892551927: Four Unposted Letters to Catherine
Rilegato
ISBN 10: 0892551925 ISBN 13: 9780892551927
Casa editrice: Persea Books, 1993

Sinossi

Letters written by the poet to an eight-year-old girl explain the difference between learning and knowing, the value of thinking, and the benefits of avoiding hypocrisy and pretension

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Product Description

Like Rilke's Letters to a Young Poet, this remarkable little book of wisdom and advice refreshes the mind and renews the spirit. Written in 1930 and published in Paris by the Hours Press in a limited edition of only two hundred, these letters were addressed to an eight-year-old girl, the "thoughtful and sensible" child of Nancy Nicholson and Robert Graves. But they were also meant for adults who might have such a child in their spirit. In simple, luminous language, Laura Riding explains the difference between learning and knowing; the value of thinking, of doing, and of not-showing-off; and how it is good to live straight, avoiding the hypocrisies and pretensions of "the muddle." Here is a literary treasure to be shared between generations. For many readers, it will also serve as an invaluable key to the thought of this astonishingly original writer.

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Editore
Persea Books
Data di pubblicazione
1993
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0892551925
ISBN 13 
9780892551927
Rilegatura
Copertina rigida
Numero di pagine
79
Contatto del produttore
non disponibile
Persona responsabile
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