| The Element of Lavishness: Letters of Sylvia Townsend Warner and William Maxwell 1938-1978 Contributor(s): Maxwell, William (Author) |
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ISBN: 1582432473 ISBN-13: 9781582432472 Publisher: Catapult OUR PRICE: $18.95 Product Type: Paperback Published: May 2003 Annotation: An instant classic in the literature of friendship: the witty, affectionate forty-year correspondence between a great story-writer and her New Yorker editor. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures - Biography & Autobiography | Editors, Journalists, Publishers - Literary Collections | Letters |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 00064459 |
| Physical Information: 0.94" H x 5.5" W x 8.58" (1.13 lbs) 392 pages |
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| Publisher Description: 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 Willowes, had recently begun writing stories for the magazine, antic, inimitable sketches of English life that Maxwell adored. The poems were sent, and a remarkable friendship was begun. |