Biography The Craft and the Calling

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8vo 174pp. from front flap: "In this freshly written text Catherine Drinker Bowen has drawn upon the technical experiences involved in the writing of her seven biographies, as well as on the methods and the testimony of other writers whose books she greatly admires: Garrett Mattingly, Elizabeth Jenkins, Lord David Cecil, Hilda F.M. Prescott, and to a lesser extent on the achievements of Lytton Strachey, Andre Maurois, Carlyle, Douglas S. Freeman, and others. What has emerged is a book as lively as it is searching, full of notable scenes, and fraught with literary problems, the knowledge of which increases our respect and appetite for biography." presentation copy, inscribed on FFEP: " For dear Kate with love, Kitty (This is my latest--to be published in February) Its not "collected essays) Its new " #00799. very good: tape residue to boards, sticker residue on spine, toning to endpapers, text clean, binding tight and square. Gift inscription by author on FFEP. very good: age wear, corner scuffs, sticker residue on spine, NOT clipped ($5.95). N° de ref. del artículo 716

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