ENGLISH

Yours ever: people and their letters

By Thomas , Mallon

Book information

Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group;Pantheon Books
Year
2009
ISBN
9780307378644, 0307378640
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
2 MB (2076091 bytes)
Pages
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Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES--Composition & Creativ

Description

A delightful investigation of the art of letter writing, Yours Ever explores masterpieces dispatched through the ages by messenger, postal service, and BlackBerry. Here are Madame de Sevigne's devastatingly sharp reports from the French court, F. Scott Fitzgerald's tormented advice to his young daughter, the casually brilliant musings of Flannery O'Connor, the lustful boastings of Lord Byron, and the prison cries of Sacco and Vanzetti, all accompanied by Thomas Mallon's own insightful commentary. From battlefield confessions to suicide notes, fan letters to hate mail, Yours Ever is an exuberant reintroduction to a vast and entertaining literature'a book that will help to revive, in the digital age, this glorious lost art. From the Trade Paperback edition.

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