The Element of Lavishness: Letters of Sylvia Townsend Warner and William Maxwell 1938-1978 - Paperback
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Language:EnglishPublisher:CatapultISBN-13:9781582432472ISBN-10:1582432473UPC:9781582432472Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, Literary CollectionsBook Subcategory:Literary Figures, Editors, Journalists, Publishers, LettersSize:8.58 x 5.50 x 0.94 inchesWeight:1.131Product ID:SCM3X8Z0TZ
The Element of Lavishness: Letters of Sylvia Townsend Warner and William Maxwell 1938-1978
An instant classic in the literature of friendship: the witty, affectionate 40-year correspondence between a great story-writer and her editor . . . pleasure and delight. In July 1938, William Maxwell, then twenty-nine years old and the acting poetry editor of The New Yorker, wrote to Sylvia Townsend Warner inviting her to send him verse. Miss Warner, forty-four and famous for her novel Lolly...
Language:EnglishPublisher:CatapultISBN-13:9781582432472ISBN-10:1582432473UPC:9781582432472Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, Literary CollectionsBook Subcategory:Literary Figures, Editors, Journalists, Publishers, LettersSize:8.58 x 5.50 x 0.94 inchesWeight:1.131Product ID:SCM3X8Z0TZ
Sylvia Townsend Warner was a poet, short-story writer, and novelist, as well as an authority on early English music and a member of the Communist Party. Her first novel, Lolly Willowes, appeared in 1926 and was the first ever Book-of-the-Month Club selection. Mr. Fortune's Maggot, her second, followed a year later. The Salutation was the title novella of a 1932 collection. Over the course of her...
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