TO THE LETTER tells the story of our remarkable journey through the mail. From Roman tablets discovered near Hadrian's Wall to the wonders and terrors of email, Simon Garfield explores how we have written to each other over the centuries and what our letters reveal about our lives. Along the way he delves into the great correspondences of our time, from Cicero and Petrarch to Jane Austen and Ted Hughes (and John Keats, Virginia Woolf, Jack Kerouac, Anais Nin and Charles Schulz), and traces the very particular advice offered by bestselling letter-writing manuals.
| Autor: | Garfield, Simon |
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| ISBN: | 9780857868596 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Produktart: | Gebunden |
| Verlag: | Canongate |
| Veröffentlicht: | 01.01.2013 |
Simon Garfield is the author of thirteen acclaimed books of non-fiction including On the Map, Just My Type and The Wrestling. His edited diaries from the Mass Observation Archive Our Hidden Lives, We Are At War and Private Battles were bestsellers, and his study of Aids in Britain, The End of Innocence, won the Somerset Maugham prize. He lives in London and St Ives, Cornwall.