Author: Lady Mary Wortley MontaguPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 562
Book Description
The Letters and Works of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Author: Lady Mary Wortley MontaguPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 562
Book Description
The Letters of Lady M. W. Montagu, During the Embassy to Constantinople 1716-18
Author: Lady Mary Wortley MontaguPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
The Letters and Works
Author: Mary Wortley MontaguPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 448
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Letters
Author: Mary Wortley MontaguPublisher: Everyman's Library
ISBN: 0375712860
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 467
Book Description
Immensely learned, self-educated in an era when formal schooling was denied to women, Mary Wortley Montagu was an admired poet, a consistently scandalous doyenne of eighteenth-century London society, and, in a period when letter-writing had been elevated to an art form, one of the greatest letter writers in the English language. Her epistles, meant for both public and private consumption, are the product of a mind distinguished by its adventurousness, its indifference to convention, and its eagerness not only to acquire knowledge but to convey it with unmitigated style and grace. (Book Jacket Status: Not Jacketed)
More Letters of Note
Author: Shaun UsherPublisher:
ISBN: 9781786891693
Category : Correspondence
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
FOLLOW-UP TO THE PHENOMENAL INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER INCLUDING LETTERS FROM: Jane Austen, Richard Burton, Helen Keller, Alan Turing, Albus Dumbledore, Eleanor Roosevelt, Henry James, Sylvia Plath, John Lennon, Gerald Durrell, Janis Joplin, Mozart, Janis Joplin, Hunter S. Thompson, C. G. Jung, Katherine Mansfield, Marge Simpson, David Bowie, Dorothy Parker, Buckminster Fuller, Beatrix Potter, Che Guevara, Evelyn Waugh, Charlotte Bront� and many more. Discover Richard Burton's farewell note to Elizabeth Taylor, Helen Keller's letter to The New York Symphony Orchestra about 'hearing' their concert through her fingers, the final missives from a doomed Japan Airlines flight in 1985, David Bowie's response to his first piece of fan mail from America and even Albus Dumbledore writing to a reader applying for the position of Defence Against the Dark Arts Professor at Hogwarts. More Letters of Note is another rich and inspiring collection, which reminds us that much of what matters in our lives finds its way into our letters.
Letters of Laurence Sterne
Author: Laurence SternePublisher: Oxford, Blackwell, publisher to the Shakespeare Head Press of Stratford-upon-Avon
ISBN:
Category : Novelists, English
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
Letters on Ethics
Author: Lucius Annaeus SenecaPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022626520X
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 633
Book Description
“An exceptionally accessible” new translation of “the lively and urgent writings of one of classical antiquity’s most important ethicists” (Choice). The Roman statesman and philosopher Seneca (4 BCE–65 CE) recorded his moral philosophy and reflections on life as a highly original kind of correspondence. Letters on Ethics includes vivid descriptions of town and country life in Nero’s Italy, discussions of poetry and oratory, and philosophical training for Seneca’s friend Lucilius. This volume, the first complete English translation in nearly a century, makes the Letters more accessible than ever before. Written as much for a general audience as for Lucilius, these engaging letters offer advice on how to deal with everything from nosy neighbors to sickness, pain, and death. Seneca uses the informal format of the letter to present the central ideas of Stoicism, for centuries the most influential philosophical system in the Mediterranean world. His lively and at times humorous expositions have made the Letters his most popular work and an enduring classic. Including an introduction and explanatory notes by Margaret Graver and A. A. Long, this authoritative edition will captivate a new generation of readers.
The Letters and Works of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Author: Lady Mary Wortley MontaguPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Women authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
Thoughts
Author: Blaise PascalPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Apologetics
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
Turkish Embassy Letters
Author: Lady Mary Wortley MontaguPublisher: Ravenio Books
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 269
Book Description
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (15 May 1689 – 21 August 1762) was the wife of British Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, mainly remembered for her letters from Turkey and their insightful remarks on life in the Muslim Orient.