The Resource Patrick Leigh Fermor : a life in letters, selected and edited by Adam Sisman
Patrick Leigh Fermor : a life in letters, selected and edited by Adam Sisman
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The item Patrick Leigh Fermor : a life in letters, selected and edited by Adam Sisman represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Stevens Memorial Library (North Andover).
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- Summary
- "The first extensive collection of letters written by war hero and travel writing legend Patrick Leigh Fermor. The letters in this volume span seventy years, from February 1940 to January 2010. The first was written ten days before Patrick Leigh Fermor's twenty-fifth birthday, when he was an officer cadet, hoping for a commission in the Irish Guards. He had hurried back to England from Romania in September 1939, expecting to die within weeks of being sent into action, like his friend who was a junior officer in the First World War. The last two were written on the same day, when Paddy (as he called himself, and almost everyone else called him) was ninety-four, a widower, very deaf, and suffering from tunnel vision, which made it hard for him to read even his own handwriting. His voice was already hoarse from the throat cancer that would kill him seventeen months later. But these last letters, like the first and most of the others printed here, exude a zest that was characteristic. From first to last, Paddy's letters radiate warmth and gaiety. Often they are decorated with witty illustrations and enhanced by comic verse. Sometimes they contain riddles and cringe-making puns"--
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xxv, 469 pages, [16] pages of plates
- Note
- Original title: Dashing for the Post
- Isbn
- 9781681371566
- Label
- Patrick Leigh Fermor : a life in letters
- Title
- Patrick Leigh Fermor
- Title remainder
- a life in letters
- Statement of responsibility
- selected and edited by Adam Sisman
- Title variation
- Life in letters
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "The first extensive collection of letters written by war hero and travel writing legend Patrick Leigh Fermor. The letters in this volume span seventy years, from February 1940 to January 2010. The first was written ten days before Patrick Leigh Fermor's twenty-fifth birthday, when he was an officer cadet, hoping for a commission in the Irish Guards. He had hurried back to England from Romania in September 1939, expecting to die within weeks of being sent into action, like his friend who was a junior officer in the First World War. The last two were written on the same day, when Paddy (as he called himself, and almost everyone else called him) was ninety-four, a widower, very deaf, and suffering from tunnel vision, which made it hard for him to read even his own handwriting. His voice was already hoarse from the throat cancer that would kill him seventeen months later. But these last letters, like the first and most of the others printed here, exude a zest that was characteristic. From first to last, Paddy's letters radiate warmth and gaiety. Often they are decorated with witty illustrations and enhanced by comic verse. Sometimes they contain riddles and cringe-making puns"--
- Assigning source
- Provided by publisher
- Biography type
- contains biographical information
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Fermor, Patrick Leigh
- Dewey number
-
- 910.4092
- B
- Illustrations
-
- illustrations
- plates
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- PR6056.E65
- LC item number
- Z48 2016
- Literary form
- letters
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
- Sisman, Adam
- Series statement
- New York Review book
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Fermor, Patrick Leigh
- Fermor, Patrick Leigh
- Travel writers
- Soldiers
- Soldiers
- Travel writers
- Great Britain
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary Figures
- Label
- Patrick Leigh Fermor : a life in letters, selected and edited by Adam Sisman
- Note
- Original title: Dashing for the Post
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
-
- text
- still image
- Content type code
-
- txt
- sti
- Content type MARC source
-
- rdacontent
- rdacontent
- Control code
- ocn973530807
- Dimensions
- 21 cm
- Extent
- xxv, 469 pages, [16] pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9781681371566
- Lccn
- 2017014756
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)973530807
- Label
- Patrick Leigh Fermor : a life in letters, selected and edited by Adam Sisman
- Note
- Original title: Dashing for the Post
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
-
- text
- still image
- Content type code
-
- txt
- sti
- Content type MARC source
-
- rdacontent
- rdacontent
- Control code
- ocn973530807
- Dimensions
- 21 cm
- Extent
- xxv, 469 pages, [16] pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9781681371566
- Lccn
- 2017014756
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)973530807
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