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Lord Chesterfield's Letters (Oxford World's Classics)

`My object is to have you fit to live; which, if you are not, I do not desire that you should live at all. Get Lord Chesterfield's Letters literature books for free.




So wrote Lord Chesterfield in one of the most celebrated and controversial correspondences between a father and son. Chesterfield wrote almost daily to his natural son, Philip, from 1737 onwards, providing him with instruction in etiquette and the worldly arts.



Praised in their day as a complete manual of education, and despised by Samuel Johnson for teaching `the morals of a whore and the manners of a dancing-master', these letters reflect the political craft of a leading statesman and the urbane wit of a man who associated with Pope, Addison, and Swift. The letters reveal Chesterfield's political cynicism and Check Lord Chesterfield's Letters our best literature books for 2013. All books are available in pdf format and downloadable from rapidshare, 4shared, and mediafire.

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