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Written in History : letters that changed the world / Simon Sebag Montefiore.

By: Publisher: London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2018Description: xxiii, 247 pages ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 147460918X
  • 9781474609180
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: ebook version: No titleDDC classification:
  • 808.86 23
LOC classification:
  • PN6131 .S43 2018
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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.

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Item type Current library Call number Status Notes Date due Barcode
Book Book SMSA Library Non-fiction 808.86 SEBA Checked out December 2018 16/10/2023 68862

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