Bibliograph

A treasury of the world's great letters from ancient days to our own time, containing the characteristic and crucial communications, and intimate exchanges and cycles of correspondence, of many of the outstanding figures of world history, and some notable contemporaries, selected, edited, and integrated with biographical backgrounds and historical settings and consequences by M. Lincoln Schuster

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A treasury of the world's great letters from ancient days to our own time, containing the characteristic and crucial communications, and intimate exchanges and cycles of correspondence, of many of the outstanding figures of world history, and some notable contemporaries, selected, edited, and integrated with biographical backgrounds and historical settings and consequences by M. Lincoln Schuster

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 525-530) and index

Illustrations

facsimiles

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

A treasury of the world's great letters from ancient days to our own time

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

336083

Responsibility statement

selected, edited, and integrated with biographical backgrounds and historical settings and consequences by M. Lincoln Schuster

Sub title

containing the characteristic and crucial communications, and intimate exchanges and cycles of correspondence, of many of the outstanding figures of world history, and some notable contemporaries

Summary

Containing the characteristic and crucial communications, and intimate exchanges and cycles of correspondence, of many of the outstanding figures of world history, and some notable contemporaries, selected, edited, and integrated with biographical backgrounds and historical settings and consequences

Table Of Contents

Love letters -- Letters about marriage -- Letters of Friendship and appreciation -- Letters about men and manners -- Letters of controversy, hatred, and enmity -- Letters of irony and satire -- Letters about justice -- Letters of courage and adventure -- Letters of despair -- Letters of pleading for mercy -- Letters about turning points of history -- Letters about revolution -- Letters about art -- Letters about music -- Letters about poetry -- Letters about philosophy -- Letters about religion -- Letters about science -- Letters written on the eve of death -- Letters of condolence

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