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Oxford Book of Letters

Kermode, Frank Kermode Anita
Heftet / 2003 / Engelsk

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780192804907
Publisert
2003
Utgiver
Vendor
Oxford University Press
Vekt
593 gr
Høyde
195 mm
Bredde
129 mm
Dybde
31 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
584

Redaktør
Kermode, Frank
Kermode Anita

Om bidragsyterne

An acclaimed critic, scholar, and author, Frank Kermode was formerly King Edward VII Professor of English Literature at Cambridge. He has written and edited many books, including Uses of Error (1991), History and Value (1989), The Oxford Anthology of English Literature (with John Hollander, 1973) Shakespeare's Language (2001), and Pleasing Myself: From Beowolf to Philip Roth (2002). Anita Kermode has researched and taught English and American literature at Rutgers University, the University of Cambridge, and Columbia University.

Oxford Book of Letters

Kermode, Frank Kermode Anita
Heftet / 2003 / Engelsk
Kermode, Frank Kermode Anita
Heftet / 2003 / Engelsk
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Review from previous edition More than 500 letters, spanning five centuries and chronicling the affairs of correspondents from George Eliot and Oscar Wilde to Groucho Marx, from poets to philosophers, from gossip about the latest fashions to gruesome details of executions, capture the panoply of human life from the mundane to the most momentous occasions.

Sunday Times

The Oxford Book of Letters is a celebration of private correspondence ... 500 pages of delight in which even the tragedy is uplifting ... There is much to learn from The Oxford Book of Letters.

The Independent

real cream, not skimmed milk, a volume of traditional bulk and gravity

The Financial Times

Se alle

The Oxford Book of Letters ... contains everything you would expect and more ... at this price, the anthology's 550 pages are a bargain.

Sunday Telegraph

Joyous celebration of lettres intimes across the centuries, from Thomas More to Groucho Marx via Herbert Henry Asquith

The Independent

This fine collection of letters tends to the noble in expression.

The Daily Telegraph

defenders of the genre will seize Frank and Anita Kermode's book with rapture: it's new proof of just how marvellous anthologies can be. This is a rich, ripe mid-summery collection ... The selection is so intelligent and lucid it reads like the most intimate of social histories ... This is a collection that almost achieves perfection: majestic and accessible, wonderfully funny, memorably sad.

The Observer

The sheer scale of the book is impressive; the variety of its contents cannot fail to delight the casual browser ... it is an imaginative and scholarly trawl ... The anthology is crammed with surprises.

The Sunday Times

admirable ... the Kermodes have a wonderful eye for a "good" letter.

The Times Literary Supplement

the editors have unearthed some gems in this collection ... This is a stimulating anthology, with an incisive and witty introduction, touching lightly on the sociology and history of letter-writing.

Literary Review

A wonderful collection of some 300 letters written by Britons and Americans from 1535 to 1985 ... An interesting and important record of a dying art.

Publishers Weekly

Collections like this act as tasters and make you want to find out more about the people involved. If you enjoy this book as much as I did, you will have a lifetime of reading to come.

Hitchin Gazette

it can be read, with pleasure

London Review of Books

a delight and a tease. The editors give notes with each piece, and an interesting introduction ... An aspect of this book that makes it a pleasure to put down as well as to read is its cover. To reproduce Mary Cassatt's painting, The Letter, may have been an obvious choice, but a very good one.

Hampstead & Highgate

fascinating and often humorous book

Yorkshire Evening Press

elegant and beautifully selected anthology ... splendid compilation, which is a source of constant delight

Western Morning News

a splendidly eclectic seleciton of readings from all sources and all ages

Caterer & Hotelkeeper

The editors provide an appropriately elegant, quizzical introduction, and let us get on with it ... it's interesting to dip into.

New Statesman & Society

If you have a tendency to pry - and who doesn't - feast your eyes on this admirable collection of private jottings spanning 450 years.

Herald Express

This is a wonderful compilation of life as once lived, more vivid than any documentary film or audio tape.

The Express

we had better make the most of their admirably discriminating selection of letters ... it is a matter of taste and breadth of reading, and the Kermodes have both

The Spectator

elegant and beautifully selected anthology ... The authors of this splendid compilation, which is a source of constant delight, date 1918 as the end of the great period of letter writing.

The Birmingham Post

There are numerous witty and engaging stories to enjoy ... A delightful collection of comic and tragic intimacies.

The Lady

Reading other people's letters, like reading private diaries, offers thrilling and unexpected glimpses into their lives, and it is partly the guilty pleasure we take in such literary eavesdropping that makes this volume so compelling. More than 300 letters spanning five centuries chronicle the affairs of correspondents from Elizabeth I to Groucho Marx, from politicians to poets, and from the famous to the unknown. But whether the writers are educated or barely literate, whether the prose is polished and witty or stumbling and artless, these letters share an immediacy and intimacy unlike any other form of writing. Their subjects range from the mundane to the extraordinary, from gossip about the latest fashion to the horrors of a public execution, and from the tragic to the hilarious. Exchanges of letters between regular correspondents are included, where familiarity and an ongoing saga add to the fascination. Among the most moving letters are those from emigrants to America, Australia, and South Africa, describing the hardships they endured and the resolution with which they faced their new worlds. In every case the editors provide a context for the letters, and unobtrusive notes. In an age where communication is instant and ephemeral this volume celebrates the glories of the written word, and what may well be a dying art form.
Les mer
This volume contains more than 300 letters spanning five centuries chronicling the affairs of correspondents from Elizabeth I to Groucho Marx, from politicians to poets, and from the famous to the unknown.
Les mer
`Review from previous edition More than 500 letters, spanning five centuries and chronicling the affairs of correspondents from George Eliot and Oscar Wilde to Groucho Marx, from poets to philosophers, from gossip about the latest fashions to gruesome details of executions, capture the panoply of human life from the mundane to the most momentous occasions.' Sunday Times `The Oxford Book of Letters is a celebration of private correspondence ... 500 pages of delight in which even the tragedy is uplifting ... There is much to learn from The Oxford Book of Letters.' The Independent `real cream, not skimmed milk, a volume of traditional bulk and gravity' The Financial Times `The Oxford Book of Letters ... contains everything you would expect and more ... at this price, the anthology's 550 pages are a bargain.' Sunday Telegraph `Joyous celebration of lettres intimes across the centuries, from Thomas More to Groucho Marx via Herbert Henry Asquith' The Independent `This fine collection of letters tends to the noble in expression.' The Daily Telegraph `defenders of the genre will seize Frank and Anita Kermode's book with rapture: it's new proof of just how marvellous anthologies can be. This is a rich, ripe mid-summery collection ... The selection is so intelligent and lucid it reads like the most intimate of social histories ... This is a collection that almost achieves perfection: majestic and accessible, wonderfully funny, memorably sad.' The Observer `The sheer scale of the book is impressive; the variety of its contents cannot fail to delight the casual browser ... it is an imaginative and scholarly trawl ... The anthology is crammed with surprises.' The Sunday Times `admirable ... the Kermodes have a wonderful eye for a "good" letter.' The Times Literary Supplement `the editors have unearthed some gems in this collection ... This is a stimulating anthology, with an incisive and witty introduction, touching lightly on the sociology and history of letter-writing.' Literary Review `A wonderful collection of some 300 letters written by Britons and Americans from 1535 to 1985 ... An interesting and important record of a dying art.' Publishers Weekly `Collections like this act as tasters and make you want to find out more about the people involved. If you enjoy this book as much as I did, you will have a lifetime of reading to come.' Hitchin Gazette `it can be read, with pleasure' London Review of Books `a delight and a tease. The editors give notes with each piece, and an interesting introduction ... An aspect of this book that makes it a pleasure to put down as well as to read is its cover. To reproduce Mary Cassatt's painting, The Letter, may have been an obvious choice, but a very good one.' Hampstead & Highgate `fascinating and often humorous book' Yorkshire Evening Press `elegant and beautifully selected anthology ... splendid compilation, which is a source of constant delight' Western Morning News `a splendidly eclectic seleciton of readings from all sources and all ages' Caterer & Hotelkeeper `The editors provide an appropriately elegant, quizzical introduction, and let us get on with it ... it's interesting to dip into.' New Statesman & Society `If you have a tendency to pry - and who doesn't - feast your eyes on this admirable collection of private jottings spanning 450 years.' Herald Express `This is a wonderful compilation of life as once lived, more vivid than any documentary film or audio tape.' The Express `we had better make the most of their admirably discriminating selection of letters ... it is a matter of taste and breadth of reading, and the Kermodes have both' The Spectator `elegant and beautifully selected anthology ... The authors of this splendid compilation, which is a source of constant delight, date 1918 as the end of the great period of letter writing.' The Birmingham Post `There are numerous witty and engaging stories to enjoy ... A delightful collection of comic and tragic intimacies.' The Lady
Les mer
Comprehensive anthology of letters in English from the 6th century to Philip Larkin Includes letters by the famous (writers, royalty, politicians, poets, playwrights) and the unknown (emigrants to America, Australia and S. Africa) Subjects range from business and world affairs, to love letters, begging letters, and gossip Each letter set in context and annotated with helpful editorial comments Contains first publication of T.S.Eliot-Spender exchange of letters in verse 'a rich, ripe mid-summery collection ... The selection is so intelligent and lucid it reads like the most intimate of social histories ... This is a collection that almost achieves perfection: majestic and accessible, wonderfully funny, memorably sad.' The Observer
Les mer
An acclaimed critic, scholar, and author, Frank Kermode was formerly King Edward VII Professor of English Literature at Cambridge. He has written and edited many books, including Uses of Error (1991), History and Value (1989), The Oxford Anthology of English Literature (with John Hollander, 1973) Shakespeare's Language (2001), and Pleasing Myself: From Beowolf to Philip Roth (2002). Anita Kermode has researched and taught English and American literature at Rutgers University, the University of Cambridge, and Columbia University.
Les mer
Comprehensive anthology of letters in English from the 6th century to Philip Larkin Includes letters by the famous (writers, royalty, politicians, poets, playwrights) and the unknown (emigrants to America, Australia and S. Africa) Subjects range from business and world affairs, to love letters, begging letters, and gossip Each letter set in context and annotated with helpful editorial comments Contains first publication of T.S.Eliot-Spender exchange of letters in verse 'a rich, ripe mid-summery collection ... The selection is so intelligent and lucid it reads like the most intimate of social histories ... This is a collection that almost achieves perfection: majestic and accessible, wonderfully funny, memorably sad.' The Observer
Les mer

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Review from previous edition More than 500 letters, spanning five centuries and chronicling the affairs of correspondents from George Eliot and Oscar Wilde to Groucho Marx, from poets to philosophers, from gossip about the latest fashions to gruesome details of executions, capture the panoply of human life from the mundane to the most momentous occasions.

Sunday Times

The Oxford Book of Letters is a celebration of private correspondence ... 500 pages of delight in which even the tragedy is uplifting ... There is much to learn from The Oxford Book of Letters.

The Independent

real cream, not skimmed milk, a volume of traditional bulk and gravity

The Financial Times

Se alle

The Oxford Book of Letters ... contains everything you would expect and more ... at this price, the anthology's 550 pages are a bargain.

Sunday Telegraph

Joyous celebration of lettres intimes across the centuries, from Thomas More to Groucho Marx via Herbert Henry Asquith

The Independent

This fine collection of letters tends to the noble in expression.

The Daily Telegraph

defenders of the genre will seize Frank and Anita Kermode's book with rapture: it's new proof of just how marvellous anthologies can be. This is a rich, ripe mid-summery collection ... The selection is so intelligent and lucid it reads like the most intimate of social histories ... This is a collection that almost achieves perfection: majestic and accessible, wonderfully funny, memorably sad.

The Observer

The sheer scale of the book is impressive; the variety of its contents cannot fail to delight the casual browser ... it is an imaginative and scholarly trawl ... The anthology is crammed with surprises.

The Sunday Times

admirable ... the Kermodes have a wonderful eye for a "good" letter.

The Times Literary Supplement

the editors have unearthed some gems in this collection ... This is a stimulating anthology, with an incisive and witty introduction, touching lightly on the sociology and history of letter-writing.

Literary Review

A wonderful collection of some 300 letters written by Britons and Americans from 1535 to 1985 ... An interesting and important record of a dying art.

Publishers Weekly

Collections like this act as tasters and make you want to find out more about the people involved. If you enjoy this book as much as I did, you will have a lifetime of reading to come.

Hitchin Gazette

it can be read, with pleasure

London Review of Books

a delight and a tease. The editors give notes with each piece, and an interesting introduction ... An aspect of this book that makes it a pleasure to put down as well as to read is its cover. To reproduce Mary Cassatt's painting, The Letter, may have been an obvious choice, but a very good one.

Hampstead & Highgate

fascinating and often humorous book

Yorkshire Evening Press

elegant and beautifully selected anthology ... splendid compilation, which is a source of constant delight

Western Morning News

a splendidly eclectic seleciton of readings from all sources and all ages

Caterer & Hotelkeeper

The editors provide an appropriately elegant, quizzical introduction, and let us get on with it ... it's interesting to dip into.

New Statesman & Society

If you have a tendency to pry - and who doesn't - feast your eyes on this admirable collection of private jottings spanning 450 years.

Herald Express

This is a wonderful compilation of life as once lived, more vivid than any documentary film or audio tape.

The Express

we had better make the most of their admirably discriminating selection of letters ... it is a matter of taste and breadth of reading, and the Kermodes have both

The Spectator

elegant and beautifully selected anthology ... The authors of this splendid compilation, which is a source of constant delight, date 1918 as the end of the great period of letter writing.

The Birmingham Post

There are numerous witty and engaging stories to enjoy ... A delightful collection of comic and tragic intimacies.

The Lady

Reading other people's letters, like reading private diaries, offers thrilling and unexpected glimpses into their lives, and it is partly the guilty pleasure we take in such literary eavesdropping that makes this volume so compelling. More than 300 letters spanning five centuries chronicle the affairs of correspondents from Elizabeth I to Groucho Marx, from politicians to poets, and from the famous to the unknown. But whether the writers are educated or barely literate, whether the prose is polished and witty or stumbling and artless, these letters share an immediacy and intimacy unlike any other form of writing. Their subjects range from the mundane to the extraordinary, from gossip about the latest fashion to the horrors of a public execution, and from the tragic to the hilarious. Exchanges of letters between regular correspondents are included, where familiarity and an ongoing saga add to the fascination. Among the most moving letters are those from emigrants to America, Australia, and South Africa, describing the hardships they endured and the resolution with which they faced their new worlds. In every case the editors provide a context for the letters, and unobtrusive notes. In an age where communication is instant and ephemeral this volume celebrates the glories of the written word, and what may well be a dying art form.
Les mer
This volume contains more than 300 letters spanning five centuries chronicling the affairs of correspondents from Elizabeth I to Groucho Marx, from politicians to poets, and from the famous to the unknown.
Les mer
`Review from previous edition More than 500 letters, spanning five centuries and chronicling the affairs of correspondents from George Eliot and Oscar Wilde to Groucho Marx, from poets to philosophers, from gossip about the latest fashions to gruesome details of executions, capture the panoply of human life from the mundane to the most momentous occasions.' Sunday Times `The Oxford Book of Letters is a celebration of private correspondence ... 500 pages of delight in which even the tragedy is uplifting ... There is much to learn from The Oxford Book of Letters.' The Independent `real cream, not skimmed milk, a volume of traditional bulk and gravity' The Financial Times `The Oxford Book of Letters ... contains everything you would expect and more ... at this price, the anthology's 550 pages are a bargain.' Sunday Telegraph `Joyous celebration of lettres intimes across the centuries, from Thomas More to Groucho Marx via Herbert Henry Asquith' The Independent `This fine collection of letters tends to the noble in expression.' The Daily Telegraph `defenders of the genre will seize Frank and Anita Kermode's book with rapture: it's new proof of just how marvellous anthologies can be. This is a rich, ripe mid-summery collection ... The selection is so intelligent and lucid it reads like the most intimate of social histories ... This is a collection that almost achieves perfection: majestic and accessible, wonderfully funny, memorably sad.' The Observer `The sheer scale of the book is impressive; the variety of its contents cannot fail to delight the casual browser ... it is an imaginative and scholarly trawl ... The anthology is crammed with surprises.' The Sunday Times `admirable ... the Kermodes have a wonderful eye for a "good" letter.' The Times Literary Supplement `the editors have unearthed some gems in this collection ... This is a stimulating anthology, with an incisive and witty introduction, touching lightly on the sociology and history of letter-writing.' Literary Review `A wonderful collection of some 300 letters written by Britons and Americans from 1535 to 1985 ... An interesting and important record of a dying art.' Publishers Weekly `Collections like this act as tasters and make you want to find out more about the people involved. If you enjoy this book as much as I did, you will have a lifetime of reading to come.' Hitchin Gazette `it can be read, with pleasure' London Review of Books `a delight and a tease. The editors give notes with each piece, and an interesting introduction ... An aspect of this book that makes it a pleasure to put down as well as to read is its cover. To reproduce Mary Cassatt's painting, The Letter, may have been an obvious choice, but a very good one.' Hampstead & Highgate `fascinating and often humorous book' Yorkshire Evening Press `elegant and beautifully selected anthology ... splendid compilation, which is a source of constant delight' Western Morning News `a splendidly eclectic seleciton of readings from all sources and all ages' Caterer & Hotelkeeper `The editors provide an appropriately elegant, quizzical introduction, and let us get on with it ... it's interesting to dip into.' New Statesman & Society `If you have a tendency to pry - and who doesn't - feast your eyes on this admirable collection of private jottings spanning 450 years.' Herald Express `This is a wonderful compilation of life as once lived, more vivid than any documentary film or audio tape.' The Express `we had better make the most of their admirably discriminating selection of letters ... it is a matter of taste and breadth of reading, and the Kermodes have both' The Spectator `elegant and beautifully selected anthology ... The authors of this splendid compilation, which is a source of constant delight, date 1918 as the end of the great period of letter writing.' The Birmingham Post `There are numerous witty and engaging stories to enjoy ... A delightful collection of comic and tragic intimacies.' The Lady
Les mer
Comprehensive anthology of letters in English from the 6th century to Philip Larkin Includes letters by the famous (writers, royalty, politicians, poets, playwrights) and the unknown (emigrants to America, Australia and S. Africa) Subjects range from business and world affairs, to love letters, begging letters, and gossip Each letter set in context and annotated with helpful editorial comments Contains first publication of T.S.Eliot-Spender exchange of letters in verse 'a rich, ripe mid-summery collection ... The selection is so intelligent and lucid it reads like the most intimate of social histories ... This is a collection that almost achieves perfection: majestic and accessible, wonderfully funny, memorably sad.' The Observer
Les mer
An acclaimed critic, scholar, and author, Frank Kermode was formerly King Edward VII Professor of English Literature at Cambridge. He has written and edited many books, including Uses of Error (1991), History and Value (1989), The Oxford Anthology of English Literature (with John Hollander, 1973) Shakespeare's Language (2001), and Pleasing Myself: From Beowolf to Philip Roth (2002). Anita Kermode has researched and taught English and American literature at Rutgers University, the University of Cambridge, and Columbia University.
Les mer
Comprehensive anthology of letters in English from the 6th century to Philip Larkin Includes letters by the famous (writers, royalty, politicians, poets, playwrights) and the unknown (emigrants to America, Australia and S. Africa) Subjects range from business and world affairs, to love letters, begging letters, and gossip Each letter set in context and annotated with helpful editorial comments Contains first publication of T.S.Eliot-Spender exchange of letters in verse 'a rich, ripe mid-summery collection ... The selection is so intelligent and lucid it reads like the most intimate of social histories ... This is a collection that almost achieves perfection: majestic and accessible, wonderfully funny, memorably sad.' The Observer
Les mer

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780192804907
Publisert
2003
Utgiver
Vendor
Oxford University Press
Vekt
593 gr
Høyde
195 mm
Bredde
129 mm
Dybde
31 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
584

Redaktør
Kermode, Frank
Kermode Anita

Om bidragsyterne

An acclaimed critic, scholar, and author, Frank Kermode was formerly King Edward VII Professor of English Literature at Cambridge. He has written and edited many books, including Uses of Error (1991), History and Value (1989), The Oxford Anthology of English Literature (with John Hollander, 1973) Shakespeare's Language (2001), and Pleasing Myself: From Beowolf to Philip Roth (2002). Anita Kermode has researched and taught English and American literature at Rutgers University, the University of Cambridge, and Columbia University.

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