1997, ISBN: 0140434909

[EAN: 9780140434903], Gebraucht, guter Zustand, [PU: London: Penguin Books], XXXIII, 536 p. papierbedingt Seiten leicht angebräunt, sonst ein gutes und sauberes Exemplar ohne Anstreichung… mais…

[EAN: 9780140434903], Gebraucht, guter Zustand, [PU: London: Penguin Books], XXXIII, 536 p. papierbedingt Seiten leicht angebräunt, sonst ein gutes und sauberes Exemplar ohne Anstreichungen / pages slightly browned due to the paper, otherwise a good and clean copy without markings. - Whether describing the Turkish baths in Sofia or the London social scene, negotiating her marriage settlement or declaring her passion for a young Italian, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762) wrote some of the liveliest letters in the English language. Ranging over everything from gossip to politics, science to literature, they reveal very different aspects of her personality to her husband, sister and female circle, to her beloved daughter and her errant son. The famous Embassy Letters from Constantinople were designed for publication, yet most are vividly personal. Several letters in this volume have never before appeared in print (one full of exuberant chamber-pot humour and another mocking men as ‘vile inconstant toads’). In this superb selection, Isobel Grundy has included examples from every significant correspondence so as to do full justice ‘to Montagu the writer, thinker and feminist, and to Lady Mary the friend and family member, the idealistic girl and sardonic old woman’. / CONTENTS CHRONOLOGY ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS INTRODUCTION SOURCES OF LETTERS NOTE ON THE TEXT REFERENCES AND ABBREVIATIONS FURTHER READING LETTERS 1709-1710 Before Edward Wortley Montagu 1710 -1712 Marriage Market 1712-1716 Early Marriage 1716-1718 To Turkey and Back 1721-1735 London and Twickenham 1736-1739 Mid-life Crisis 1739-1742 Unsettled in Europe 1742-1746 Avignon 1746-1756 North Italy 1756-1761 Venice and Padua 1761-1762 After Edward Wortley Montagu APPENDIX: APPARATUS OF LETTERS INDEX. ISBN 9780140434903 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 417, Books<

1997, ISBN: 9780140434903

Penguin Classics, Taschenbuch, Auflage: Reissue, 576 Seiten, Publiziert: 1997-01-30T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Buch, Hersteller-Nr.: 9780140434903, 0.42 kg, Verkaufsrang: 1143674, Briefe, … mais…

Penguin Classics, Taschenbuch, Auflage: Reissue, 576 Seiten, Publiziert: 1997-01-30T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Buch, Hersteller-Nr.: 9780140434903, 0.42 kg, Verkaufsrang: 1143674, Briefe, Essays & Briefwechsel, Literatur & Fiktion, Kategorien, Bücher, Englische & Irische Literatur, Europäische Literatur, Weltliteratur, Frauen, Gemeinschaften & Kultur, Biografien & Erinnerungen, Militär, Herausragende Persönlichkeiten, Freizeit, Haus & Garten, Abenteuer & Reiseberichte, Reise & Abenteuer, Taschenbücher, Fremdsprachige Bücher, Englische Bücher, Grundy, Isobel, Penguin Classics, 1997<