The Lyttelton Hart-Davis Letters (Volume IV): Correspondence of George Lyttelton and Rupert-Hart Davis, 1959 - Hardcover

George Lyttelton

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0897332504 ISBN 13: 9780897332507

Publisher: Academy Chicago Publishers, 2001

Synopsis

The correspondence between a retired schoolmaster and a London publisher portrays their lives and English society

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About the Author:

Rupert Hart-Davis, Editor

From Publishers Weekly:

In 1959, 51-year-old Hart-Davis continued his gentlemanly but hard-working activities as a publisher, editor and reporter on London literary gossip, and his 76-year-old country-living former Eton master went on reading widely and delivering weekly opinions. In their letters, among the myriad subjects they tossed at one another as lightly as frisbees were fiction ("If Dreiser's the great American novelist, give me the Marx Brothers every time"); poets (Laurence Housman was "a tiresome old cissy"); people with squeaky voices (Arnold Bennett, Bismarck, H. G. Wells); politics ("Apart from football, is there anything more boring than an election?"); Eddie Marsh ("Perhaps impotence has its own brand of silliness"); the conductor Sir Malcolm Sargent (the "wicked knight" best recalled as "Flash Harry"); and Winston Churchill (to his cabinet, on an unexpectedly large expenditure: "Gentlemen, you can't manure a ten-acre field with a fart"). Alas, only two more delightful volumes to come.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Academy Chicago Publishers
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0897332504
• ISBN 13: 9780897332507
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 186
• Editor: Rupert Hart-Davis