"Spanning centuries and continents, this terrific tome provides literature lovers and biography buffs with plenty to ponder every day of the year. "
Thoughtfully edited by Liz Ison, A Literary Letter for Every Day of the Year curates 365 personal letters penned by a dazzling diversity of writers, poets and thinkers.
Selected on the basis of “their literary qualities, whether that be a brilliant turn of phrase, a well-structured sentence or a dazzling description, and also for what the letter reveals about the personality, values or concerns of the writer”, this amounts to a gloriously unabashed celebration of the art of letter-writing — something to be cherished and applauded in an age that’s prone to cut communicative corners.
Appropriately enough, the opening letter, from Virginia Woolf to publisher John Lehman, addresses the subject of the art of letter-writing, with other stimulating correspondence coming courtesy of everyone from Ignatius Sancho and Jane Austen, to Sylvia Plath and Maya Angelou. Among these pages are words on loss (Ovid) and love (George Eliot), and musings on meat allowances (Fanny Burney), magnificent moonlight (Robert Louis Stevenson), and melancholy solitary walks on moors (Charlotte Brontë).
Brimming with insights and inspiration, A Literary Letter for Every Day of the Year offers a freshly polished window into the lives of dozens of remarkable writers, while serving as a valuable reminder of why words matter, and why it matters to take our time over words.
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