A Year's Letters

Swinburne, Algernon Charles; Sypher, Francis Jacques (ed.)

ISBN 10: 0720602548 / ISBN 13: 9780720602548

Edité par Peter Owen, London, 1976

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Hardcover with gilt-printed boards, no dust jacket. Light wear to front board at leading edge, otherwise no notable flaws. AD.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: A Year's Letters
• Éditeur: Peter Owen, London
• Date de parution: 1976
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0720602548
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780720602548
• Reliure: Hardcover
• État de l'article: Very Good
• Type de livre: Used
• Catalogues du vendeur:
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Présentation de l'éditeur

Novel in thirty Letters with its Prologue of five Chapters, was originally published in a short-lived London weekly, The Tatler, during the period from August 25th toD ecember 29th, 1877. It was issued under the pseudonym Mrs. Horace Manners, and while no doubt whatever exists as to its authorship, as one may easily discover fromM r. Wise sB ibliography, the work has never been publicly acknowledged by Mr. Swinburne. Our reprint is made from a copy ofT heT atler formerly owned by Frederick Locker-L ampson. On a fly leaf he has noted in pencil: I should think this would some day be thought a curious book. It is never likely to be republished. F. L. A little lower on the same page he also makes known an interesting fact: I once had the MS. Swinburne lent it me, and I think it has been a good deal altered. So far as we are aware no critic has ever passed judgment on the work. An ironic experiment in novel writing, it is assuredly unique in English literature. It would indeed appear as if Mr.
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