Famous Letters: Messages and Thoughts That Changed Our World - Tapa dura

FAMOUS LETTERS: Messages and Thoughts That Changed Our World

Hardcover. Condición: New. Estado de la sobrecubierta: As New. 1st Edition. This new copy is bound in illustrated laminated boards, The unclipped dust wrapper is in as new condition. The text block is unmarked, tight, white, bright and square. International postal rates are calculated on a book weighing 1 Kilo, in cases where the book weighs more than 1 Kilo increased postal rates will be quoted, where the book weighs less then postage will be reduced accordingly. This collection of 50 letters by the famous and infamous gives insights into some of the key events of world history. Each letter is presented in modern English and accompanied by an illustration of the original letter, where possible, and text which acquaints readers with the author of the letter and the circumstances which led to it. The writer is introduced through a short biography, and the writer and contemporary objects associated with the letter are illustrated. The collection is divided into four sections: "Encounters and Discoveries", including a letter from Samuel Pepys to Lady Elizabeth Carteret on the horrors of plague-hit London; "Self-Portraits and Justifications", featuring Bonnie Prince Charlie's letter to his father, James Stuart, telling him why he is going to Scotland alone to fight for the restoration; "Policy and Challenges", in which Emile Zola accuses the French Ministry of War of a cover-up in the Dreyfus Affair; and "Love, Death and Friendship", which includes the final letter from Nelson to Lady Hamilton, written shortly before his death. Ref TTT 1. Nº de ref. del artículo: 030984

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