Hardback (23 Jan 1996)
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Here are 200 irresistible love letters from over the centuries, love letters both historic and fictional, love letters by poets and by princes, love letters enchanting, tragic, comic, superbly selected, beautifully printed, conveniently portable, to have with you wherever and whenever you're in the mood for love.
Everyman's Library was founded on 15th February 1906 with the publication by Joseph Dent (1849-1926) of fifty titles. Dent, a master bookbinder turned publisher, was a classic Victorian autodidact. The tenth child of a Darlington house-painter, he had left school at thirteen, and arrived in London with a half crown in his pocket. He promised to publish new and beautiful editions of the world's classics at one shilling a volume, 'to appeal to every kind of reader: the worker, the student, the cultured man, the child, the man and the woman' so that 'for a few shillings the reader may have a whole bookshelf of the immortals for five pounds (which will procure him a hundred volumes) a man may be intellectually rich for life'. 'Infinite riches in a little room', as he also put it.
| ISBN: | 9780679446897 |
| Publisher: | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group |
| Imprint: | Everyman's Library |
| Pub date: | 23 Jan 1996 |
| DEWEY: | 808.869354 |
| DEWEY edition: | 20 |
| Language: | English |
| Number of pages: | 255 |
| Weight: | 227g |
| Height: | 165mm |
| Width: | 114mm |
| Spine width: | 20mm |
