LETTERS HOME

BYRON, ROBERT

ISBN 10: 0719549213 / ISBN 13: 9780719549212

Published by JOHN MURRAY, LONDON, 1991

About this Item

BOUND IN CLEAN PURPLE CLOTH HARDCOVERS, THIS 1991 FIRST EDITION PUBLISHED BY JOHN MURRAY IN LONDON IS VG IN VG JACKET (UNCLIPPED). EDITED BY LUCY BUTLER WITH INTRODUCTION AND 10 PARTS AS FOLLOWS : INTRODUCTION, ETON & OXFORD, GREECE 1926-1927, ENGLAND AND AUSTRIA 1928-1929, INDIA AND TIBET, 1929-1930, RUSSIA 1932, PERSIA, 1933-1934, AMERICA, 1935, RUSSIA, 1935, CHINA, 1935-1936, LAST LETTERS, 1939-1941, INDEX. 314pp WITH LETTERS TO HIS MOTHER FROM ROUND THE GLOBE, FROM 1926 TO 1941. CONDITION VG/VG.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: LETTERS HOME
• Publisher: JOHN MURRAY, LONDON
• Publication Date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0719549213
• ISBN 13: 9780719549212
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

About this title

Synopsis

Robert Byron is best remembered now for The Road to Oxiana. Less well-known is that, like many of his generation, notably Nancy Mitford, Evelyn Waugh and Diana Cooper, he was an entertaining letter-writer. He also had much opportunity to write, travelling widely as he did in pursuit of his enthusiasm for Byzantine and Islamic art and architecture. Some of his travels he turned into books; The Station in which he recounts his journies to Mount Athos; First Russia, then Tibet. In each case, his letters home provide a vivid and often hilarious account of the reality underlying the text.;As well as strenuous forays to far-flung parts of the globe, these letters record his years at Eton and Oxford, enlivened by friends like Henry Yorke and Harold Acton, and also his developing career as a writer, his lecture tours to America and his reactions to impending war. They chart the maturing of a rare intelligence.

Book Description

A record of Byron's life from his days at Eton through to the journeys around the world that produced his books, such as The Road to Oxiana. This collection of letters show his relationship to friends, attitudes to war and the background to the books that made him famous.