The Element of Lavishness
Author: Maxwell, William
ISBN: 9781582432472
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE US
Year first published: 09 May 2003
Pages: 392
Format: Paperback / softback
b>An instant classic in the literature of friendship- the witty, affectionate 40-year correspondence between a great story-writer and her editor . . . pleasure and delight./b>br>br>In July 1938, William Maxwell, then twenty-nine years old and the acting poetry editor of i>The New Yorker/i>, wrote to Sylvia Townsend Warner inviting her to send him verse. Miss Warner, forty-four and famous for her novel Lolly Willowes, had recently begun writing stories for the magazine, antic, inimitable sketches of English life that Maxwell adored. The poems were sent, and a remarkable friendship was begun.
ISBN: 9781582432472
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE US
Year first published: 09 May 2003
Pages: 392
Format: Paperback / softback
b>An instant classic in the literature of friendship- the witty, affectionate 40-year correspondence between a great story-writer and her editor . . . pleasure and delight./b>br>br>In July 1938, William Maxwell, then twenty-nine years old and the acting poetry editor of i>The New Yorker/i>, wrote to Sylvia Townsend Warner inviting her to send him verse. Miss Warner, forty-four and famous for her novel Lolly Willowes, had recently begun writing stories for the magazine, antic, inimitable sketches of English life that Maxwell adored. The poems were sent, and a remarkable friendship was begun.
