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Writers' Letters - Michael Bird, Orlando Bird

Writers' Letters

Jane Austen to Chinua Achebe
Buch | Hardcover
224 Seiten
2021
Frances Lincoln (Verlag)
978-0-7112-4875-5 (ISBN)
CHF 38,90 inkl. MwSt
Writer’s Letters is a collection of fascinating letters written by great writers, from Dickens to De Beauvoir

Michael Bird is a writer and art historian. His books include Artists’ Letters: Leonardo da Vinci to David Hockney (White Lion Publishing, 2019), Studio Voices: Art and Life in 20th-century Britain and The St Ives Artists: A Biography of Place and Time. He is Royal Literary Fund Fellow at the University of Exeter.Orlando Bird is a journalist. He works at the Telegraph, where he is deputy editor on the Letters desk and writes about books and travel. His work has also appeared in the Financial Times and Literary Review. He lives in London.

01. 'Got My Steam Up': Work in Progress
Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, T.S. Eliot, Henrik Ibsen, Doris Lessing, Norman Mailer, Yukio Mishima, Sylvia Plath

02. 'In This Strange Country': Places and People
Elizabeth Bishop, Charlotte Bronte, Colette, Federico Garcia Lorca, Vladimir Nabokov

03. 'My Glory Days': Writer to Writer
Samuel Beckett, Anton Chekhov, Joseph Conrad, E.M. Forster, Ernest Hemingway, Toni Morrison, Iris Murdoch, V.S. Naipaul, Leo Tolstoy, William Butler Yeats, Emile Zola

04. 'The Dreadful Steel': When Troubles Come
Charles Baudelaire, Walter Benjamin, Frances Burney, Miguel de Cervantes, Franz Kafka, Arthur Rimbaud, Paul Verlaine, Oscar Wilde

05. 'I Love Your Verse': Friends and Lovers
Guillaume Apollinaire, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, John Berryman, Emily Dickinson, Mary Godwin, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John Keats, Philip Larkin, Arthur Miller, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Virginia Woolf

06. 'Yes I Am Radical': This is History
George Eliot, Gustave Flaubert, Nadine Gordimer, Victor Hugo, Zora Neale Hurston, Samuel Johnson, Jack Kerouac, Siegfried Sassoon, Stendhal, Mark Twain

07. 'Too Darned Stupid': Patrons, Public, Publishers
Chinua Achebe, Honoré de Balzac, Bertolt Brecht, Angela Carter, Shelagh Delaney, David Foster Wallace, Thomas Hardy, James Joyce, D.H. Lawrence, Ezra Pound, Ayn Rand, George Bernard Shaw, Jonathan Swift

08. 'That's All': Last Words
Lord Byron, Seamus Heaney, Katherine Mansfield, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Mary Wollstonecraft, Stefan Zweig


 

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo colour
Sprache englisch
Maße 170 x 236 mm
Themenwelt Literatur Anthologien
Literatur Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
Literatur Briefe / Tagebücher
Literatur Essays / Feuilleton
Literatur Lyrik / Dramatik
ISBN-10 0-7112-4875-3 / 0711248753
ISBN-13 978-0-7112-4875-5 / 9780711248755
Zustand Neuware
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