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Sto caricando le informazioni... More Dashing: Further Letters of Patrick Leigh Fermor (2018)di Patrick Leigh Fermor
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. If you knew little about Patrick Leigh Fermor you might assume that a second volume of letters would have little to offer. This would be a terrible mistake. More Dashing is not a collection of epistolary barrel-scrapings; in fact it outstrips the first collection, Dashing For the Post. Letters play a special part in PLF's oeuvre; although he was a hugely gifted writer, he was inclined to overwork his formally published prose. His letters convey some of the joy and spontaneity that must have graced his conversation, and show off his erudition and delight in literary/historical arcana. PLF's letters to Deborah Devonshire, published as In Tearing Haste, are superb, though they were edited by the correspondents during their lifetime. Dashing For the Post was a commendable posthumous selection but felt unbalanced – too much early material and too many ingratiating letters to paramours. More Dashing includes more letters to social and intellectual peers (e.g. Diana Cooper and Rudi Fischer), which make for far more entertaining reading. Highly recommended. ( ) nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
The second volume of exuberant, lively letters from legendary travel writer Patrick Leigh FermorThe first collection of letters from Patrick Leigh Fermor, Dashing for the Post, delighted critics and public alike. This second volume, More Dashing, presents a further selection of letters that exude a zest for life and adventure characteristic of the man known to all as 'Paddy'. Paddy's exuberant letters contain glimpses of the great and the good: a chance conversation with the Foreign Secretary, Anthony Eden, when Paddy opens the wrong door, or a glass of ouzo under the pine trees with Harold Macmillan. They describe encounters with such varied figures as Jackie Onassis, Camilla Parker-Bowles, Oswald Mosley and Peter Mandelson, while also relating adventures with the humble: a 'pick-nick' with the stonemasons at Kardamyli, or a drunken celebration in the Cretan mountains with his old comrades from the Resistance, most of them simple shepherds and goatherds. Paddy was at ease in any company - unfailingly charming, boyish, gentle and fun. Patrick Leigh Fermor has long been recognised as one of the greatest travel writers of his time. Nowhere is his restless curiosity and delight in language more dazzlingly displayed than in his letters, skilfully edited in this collection by Adam Sisman. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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