From the rear cover
Like Rilke's Letters to a Young Poet, this remarkable little book of wisdom and advice refreshes the mind and renews the spirit. Written in 1930 and published in Paris by the Hours Press in a limited edition of only two hundred, these letters were addressed to an eight-year-old girl, the "thoughtful and sensible" child of Nancy Nicholson and Robert Graves. But they were also meant for adults who might have such a child in their spirit. In simple, luminous language, Laura Riding explains the difference between learning and knowing; the value of thinking, of doing, and of not-showing-off; and how it is good to live straight, avoiding the hypocrisies and pretensions of "the muddle". Here is a literary treasure to be shared between generations. For many readers, it will also serve as an invaluable key to the thought of this astonishingly original writer.
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- Title Four Unposted Letters to Catherine
- Author Jackson
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition 1st
- Pages 79
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Persea Books, New York
- Date 1993
- ISBN 9780892551927 / 0892551925
- Weight 0.55 lbs (0.25 kg)
- Dimensions 7.5 x 5.63 x 0.59 in (19.05 x 14.30 x 1.50 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Poets, American - 20th century, Young women - Conduct of life
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 93003467
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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Citations
- Library Journal, 09/15/1993, Page 0
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