Results for: books tagged ‘Letters’
Spirit of Place: Lawrence Durrell
Letters to Olga: Vaclav Havel
Vaclav Havel was one of the most important European writers of our time. In 1979 he was sentenced to four and a half years of hard labour for his involvement ... More
Philip Larkin: Philip Larkin
The enormous popular appeal of Philip Larkin's poetry has long been established; but oddly little is known to his admiring public about the personality behind the work.The Selected Letters will ... More
The Faber Book of Reportage: John Carey
What was it like to be caught in the firestorm that destroyed Pompeii? To have dinner with Attila the Hun? To watch the charge of the Light Brigade? To see ... More
Love, Groucho: Miriam Marx-Allen
Groucho Marx's elder daughter saved virtually every letter her father wrote to her between 1938, when she was eleven years old, and 1967. The letters amply display Groucho's famous wit ... More
Debussy Remembered: Roger Nichols
One of an absorbing series of anthologies of personal recollections and reminiscences of great composers, Roger Nichols's book gathers together the testimonies of some sixty people - relatives, friends and ... More
Letters from a Life Vol 2: 1939-45: Benjamin Britten
In May 1939 Britten and Pears disembarked at Montreal at the start of their American visit, which was to be a period of intense musical activity and new personal relationships. ... More
Letters from a Life Vol 1: 1923-39: Benjamin Britten
Volume One of these remarkable letters and diaries opens with a letter from Britten aged nine to his formidable mother, Edith. Music is already at the centre of his life, ... More
What the Twilight Says: Derek Walcott
This is the first collection of essays and critical writings by the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature of 1992 and the Caribbean's greatest poet. Derek Walcott has long ... More
Damn You England: John Osborne
Well-known playwright and acerbic wit, John Osborne was a man of trenchant opinions which he was unafraid to express. Ranging from his infamous 1961 letter to Tribune which provides the ... More
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