Isbn: 9780094528901 - two quiet lives: dorothy osborne and thomas gray (4 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. A very nice copy.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Price Clipped DJ, Minor wear. 24 hour dispatch. Full refund if not satisfied.

Hardback. Zustand: Good. Good - Priceclipped. Reprint. 194 pages. 'A book rare in our day. an invaluable reminder of life's possibilities.' - Elizabeth Bowen Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.

Hard Cover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Reprint. Dust jacket price clipped. Previous owner's details on ffep. xi, 194 pages clean and tight. The two quiet lives are Dorothy Osborne, writer of the famous love letters to William Temple, and Thomas Gray, poet, Cambridge don and friend of Horace Walpole. They lived a century apart, but as David Cecil shows, were temperamentally akin. Both were reserved, introspective and prone to melancholy: both appeared awkward and difficult save to the few to whom they opened their hearts: both commanded a fund of humour and imagination and possessed an instinctive feeling for style: and both enjoyed an inner life which was vivid, strong and exciting. David Cecil's subtle and sympathetic study of two remarkable natures is a sustained piece of exquisite scholarship which reads as engagingly now as it did when first published in 1948. Size: 8vo.…