Signalling From Mars: The Letters of Arthur Ransome - Hardcover

Brogan, Hugh

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0224042610 ISBN 13: 9780224042611

Verlag: Jonathan Cape, 1997

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Reseña del editor:

Hugh Brogan writes in his Introduction: `Ransome in large part lived through his correspondence. He wrote letters as easily as we make phone calls (He did not possess a telephone until he was in his fifties). Their language is still vital with his character. Hundreds survive and add up to a literary achievement that deserves to be put in print as much as his stories for children. We seem to come especially close to the man writing. . . and because of the letters'spontaneity, I have let them compose themselves into a portrait of the writer in all his boyisness, his energy, his intellegence, his geniality (and his fretfulness)and the immense variety of his skills and interests'. Brogan says he has `tried to be as light-hearted an editor as possible producing `a reader-friendly selection rather than a definitive edition of documents'. He begins with Ransome in St Petersburg at the start of the Great War in 1914, and includes a breif commentary as well as some of the drawings with which Ransome decorated his correspondance.

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Ransome lived through his correspondence, and this work begins with him in St Petersburg at the start of World War I, and includes a brief commentary as well as some of the drawings with which Ransome decorated his letters.

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• Verlag: Jonathan Cape
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0224042610
• ISBN 13: 9780224042611
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 384