Selected Letters (Penguin Classics) [Idioma Inglés] - Softcover

Montagu, Mary Wortley

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140434909 ISBN 13: 9780140434903

Verlag: Penguin Classics, 1997

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Book by Montagu Mary Wortley

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Reseña del editor:

A revised selection of Lady Montagu's letters. Besides presenting a vivid picture of manners in a picturesque age, they contain a unique series of impressions from foreign courts seldom visited and nowhere else so intimately described. Lady Mary was the wife of a popular ambassador and, wielding the charm of a strong personality, was enabled to see and hear many things of which the ordinary traveler, or resident abroad, knew-and knows-little or nothing. Originally written, for the most part, to her sisters, her daughter, or to very intimate friends, her Letters are unusually detailed and frank. She was a keen observer, not superior to the love of gossip with a quick eye for the telling features of a story or situation, and an easy, effective style.. NOTA: El libro no está en español, sino en inglés.

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Whether describing the Turkish baths in Sofia or the London social scene, negotiating her marriage settlement or declaring her passion for a young Italian, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762) wrote some of the liveliest letters in the English language. Ranging over everything from gossip to politics, science to literature, they reveal very different aspects of her personality to her husband, sister and female circle, to her beloved daughter and her errant son. The famous Embassy Letters from Constantinople were designed for publication, yet most are vividly personal. Several letters in this volume have never before appeared in print (one full of exuberant chamber-pot humour and another mocking men as 'vile inconstant toads'). In this superb selection, Isobel Grundy has included examples from every significant correspondence so as to do full justice 'to Montagu the writer, thinker and feminist, and to Lady Mary the friend and family member, the idealistic girl and sardonic old woman'.

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• Verlag: Penguin Classics
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0140434909
• ISBN 13: 9780140434903
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 576
• Herausgeber: Grundy Isobel