Written in history : letters that changed the world / Simon Sebag Montefiore.
By: Sebag Montefiore, Simon [author.]
.Publisher: London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2019Edition: Paperback edition.Description: xxv, 267 pages.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781474609197.Subject(s): Letters | Letter writingDDC classification: 808.86 Summary: "Written in History celebrates the great letters of world history, creative culture and personal life. Acclaimed historian Simon Sebag Montefiore selects over one hundred letters from ancient times to the twenty-first century: some are noble and inspiring, some despicable and unsettling; some are exquisite works of literature, others brutal, coarse and frankly outrageous; many are erotic, others heartbreaking. The writers vary from Elizabeth I, Rameses the Great and Leonard Cohen to Emmeline Pankhurst, Mandela, Stalin, Michelangelo, Suleiman the Magnificent and unknown people in extraordinary circumstances – from love letters to calls for liberation, declarations of war to reflections on death. In the colourful, accessible style of a master storyteller, Montefiore shows why these letters are essential reading: how they enlighten our past, enrich the way we live now – and illuminate tomorrow." -- Orion site. https://www.orionbooks.co.uk/titles/simon-sebag-montefiore/written-in-history/9781474609203/
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| 808.5306042659 PAR Arena of ambition : | 808.80355 LAW Law and literature / | 808.81 HAR Hearing God in poetry : fifty poems for Lent and Easter / | 808.86 SEB Written in history : | 808.87 ANA The anatomy of satire : | 808.882 LIB The liberal heart : | 809.51 PHI When they go low, we go high : |
First published: 2018.
"Written in History celebrates the great letters of world history, creative culture and personal life. Acclaimed historian Simon Sebag Montefiore selects over one hundred letters from ancient times to the twenty-first century: some are noble and inspiring, some despicable and unsettling; some are exquisite works of literature, others brutal, coarse and frankly outrageous; many are erotic, others heartbreaking. The writers vary from Elizabeth I, Rameses the Great and Leonard Cohen to Emmeline Pankhurst, Mandela, Stalin, Michelangelo, Suleiman the Magnificent and unknown people in extraordinary circumstances – from love letters to calls for liberation, declarations of war to reflections on death. In the colourful, accessible style of a master storyteller, Montefiore shows why these letters are essential reading: how they enlighten our past, enrich the way we live now – and illuminate tomorrow." -- Orion site.
https://www.orionbooks.co.uk/titles/simon-sebag-montefiore/written-in-history/9781474609203/