Lyttelton Hart Davis Letters Vols 5 6 - Hardcover

Lyttelton

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0897333055 ISBN 13: 9780897333054

Publisher: Academy Chicago Publishers, 1990

Synopsis

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

About this title

About the Author:

Rupert Hart-Davis, Editor

From Publishers Weekly:

In this last of three double volumes, we read British publisher Hart-Davis's weekly letters about his editorial responsibilities and about cultural life in London, while housebound retired Eton master Lyttelton sends risque quotations, discussions of cricket and reactions to the authors and books he is discovering and reading. The collection at hand extends between 1960 and 1962, the year Lyttelton died. Hart-Davis is 52 years old, Lyttelton 77, as this series commences. Here are hundreds of witty comments, gossip and stories about Carlyle, Samuel Johnson and Henry James, as well as about Max Beerbohm, Eliot, Shaw, Wells, Lady Chatterley's Lover and Cambridge's irascible critic F. R. Leavis. The book concludes with a tribute written by Hart-Davis to be read at a dinner in London celebrating what would have been Lyttelton's 100th birthday.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Academy Chicago Publishers
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0897333055
• ISBN 13: 9780897333054
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 389