To the Letter

Resumen del libro

Every letter contains a miniature story, and here are some of the greatest. From Oscar Wilde's unconventional method of using the mail to cycling enthusiast Reginald Bray's quest to post himself, Simon Garfield uncovers a host of stories that capture the enchantment of this irreplaceable art (with a supporting cast including Pliny the Younger, Ted Hughes, Virginia Woolf, Napoleon Bonaparte, Lewis Carroll, Jane Austen, David Foster Wallace and the Little Red-Haired Girl). There is also a brief history of the letter-writing guide, with instructions on when and when not to send fish as a wedding gift.

And as these accounts unfold, so does the tale of a compelling wartime correspondence that shows how the simplest of letters can change the course of a life.

Biografía del autor

x{0026}lt;P x{0026}lt;B Simon Garfield x{0026}lt;/B (Londres, 1960) es autor de más de una docena de exitosos libros de no ficción, entre ellos los best sellers internacionales x{0026}lt;I Es mi tipo. Un libro sobre fuentes tipográficasx{0026}lt;/I (Taurus 2011), x{0026}lt;I En el mapa. De cómo el mundo adquirió su aspectox{0026}lt;/I (Taurus 2013) y x{0026}lt;I Postdata. Curiosa historia de la correspondenciax{0026}lt;/I , y editor de una trilogía de diarios del Mass Observation Archive -x{0026}lt;I Our Hidden Lives, We are at War x{0026}lt;/I yx{0026}lt;I Private Battlesx{0026}lt;/I -, que proporcionan información única sobre la II Guerra Mundial y sus secuelas. Por su estudio sobre el sida en Gran Bretaña, x{0026}lt;I The End of Innocencex{0026}lt;/I , obtuvo el premio Somerset Maugham. Vive entre Londres y St. Ives, Cornualles.x{0026}lt;/P x{0026}lt;P www.simongarfield.comx{0026}lt;/P