Letters of Note Vol. II

Letters of Note Vol. II



Following the success of the sensational, bestselling Letters of Note and Lists of Note, this vivid visual collection recalls lives and loves, celebrations and tragedies, all through letters ranging from the laugh-out-loud, the heart-breaking and the educational. LETTERS OF NOTE VOL. II is rich and inspiring - an anthology for the bedside or coffee-table, through which we can once again discover and celebrate a wealth of characters and their letters through history.



These letters deliver the same mix of the heartfelt, the historically significant, the tragic, the comic and the unexpected. Discover Richard Burton's farewell note to Elizabeth Taylor, Helen Keller's letter to The New York Symphony Orchestra about 'hearing' their concert through her fingers, the final missives from a doomed Japan Airlines flight in 1985, David Bowie's response to his first piece of fan mail from America and even Albus Dumbledore writing to a reader applying for the position of Defence Against the Dark Arts Professor at Hogwarts.

Including letters from:

Jane Austen, Richard Burton, Helen Keller, Alan Turing, Albus Dumbledore, Eleanor Roosevelt, Henry James, Sylvia Plath, John Lennon, Gerald Durrell, Janis Joplin, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Janis Joplin, Hunter S. Thompson, C. G. Jung, Katherine Mansfield, Marge Simpson, David Bowie, Dorothy Parker, Buckminster Fuller, Beatrix Potter, Che Guevara, Evelyn Waugh, Charlotte Brontë and many more.

Auteur | Shaun Usher
Taal | Engels
Type | Hardcover
Categorie | Biografieën & Waargebeurd

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