The Virago Book Of Love Letters - Brossura

Dawson, Jill

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1860495230 ISBN 13: 9781860495236

Casa editrice: Virago, 1999

Riassunto

To Jane Welsh Carlyle love letters were 'paper kisses', to Mary Wordsworth the 'beating of thy inmost heart upon paper'. Passion, longing, the desolation of unrequited love or the end of an affair are some of the consuming emotions in this ravishing compendium which reveals the enduring power of the love affair to produce ardent and often unguarded personal writing. From Emily Dickinson to Anais Nin, Anne Boleyn to the Empress Josephine, a miner's wife writing to her dead husband to prisoners of war in a Russian jail writing to friends and family, as well as contemporary figures such as Winnie Mandela and poets Suniti Namjoshi and Gillian Hanscombe, all wrote marvellous, highly charged love letters. With the promise of intimate glimpses into the writers' hearts, this anthology delivers Virginia Woolf at her wittiest, Colette in ardent and dreamy mood, Simone de Beauvoir at her most private and provocative, and many others.

'As we head down the super-highway of email and fax, we shall all need instruction in this old-fashioned art' Aisling Foster, TLS

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Recensione:

Jill Dawson has snipped the pink ribbons on a bushel of vintage love letters and exposed their secret folds to the light (ALICE FREEMAN, DAILY EXPRESS)

The letters which catch the reader's heart are those framed by the drama of an impossible or illicit passion (NICHOLAS SHAKESPEARE, DAILY TELEGRAPH)

A fascinating anthology (TLS)

Enjoyable. (MAIL ON SUNDAY)

Descrizione del libro:

First paperback publication - timed for Valentines Day - of some of the most famous and highly charged love letters

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• Editore: Virago
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• ISBN 10: 1860495230
• ISBN 13: 9781860495236
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 224
• Redattore: Dawson Jill