In addition to publishing some twenty books, Sylvia Townsend Warner wrote thousands of letters, mainly to close friends and acquaintances, and these provide a record of almost fifty years of the writer’s life.
Her interests are wide-ranging, and we read of such diverse subjects as the pleasures of travel, Proust’s shortcomings as a literary critic, current politics, Rupert Brooke at the Café Royal, an eccentric moorhen, and the Spanish Civil War.
Includes index and introduction by William Maxwell.
In addition to publishing some twenty books, Sylvia Townsend Warner wrote thousands of letters, mainly to close friends and acquaintances, and these provide a record of almost fifty years of the writer’s life.
Her interests are wide-ranging, and we read of such diverse subjects as the pleasures of travel, Proust’s shortcomings as a literary critic, current politics, Rupert Brooke at the Café Royal, an eccentric moorhen, and the Spanish Civil War.
Includes index and introduction by William Maxwell.