The Element of Lavishness

Author: Sylvia Townsend Warner
Edition: 1st
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 1582431183

The Element of Lavishness: Letters of William Maxwell and Sylvia Townsend Warner, 1938-1978

An instant classic in the literature of friendship: the witty, affectionate 40-year correspondence between a great story-writer and her New Yorker editor. Get The Element of Lavishness literature books for free.
For forty years, until her death in 1978, Sylvia Townsend Warner (poet, novelist, and short-story writer) and her New Yorker editor William Maxwell (himself a fiction writer of great distinction) exchanged more than 1,300 letters. Their formal relationship quickly grew into a real, unshakable love, and their letters back and forth became the most significant and longest-lasting correspondence of their lives. As Maxwell told the editor of these letters, "Sylvia needed to write for an audience, a specific person, in order to bring out her pleasure in enchanting," and Maxwell was that person, Check The Element of Lavishness our best literature books for 2013. All books are available in pdf format and downloadable from rapidshare, 4shared, and mediafire.

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For forty years, until her death in 1978, Sylvia Townsend Warner (poet, novelist, and short-story writer) and her New Yorker editor William Maxwell (himself a fiction writer of great distinction) exchanged more than 1,300 letters As Maxwell told the editor of these letters, "Sylvia needed to write for an audience, a specific person, in order to bring out her pleasure in enchanting," and Maxwell was that person,

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