Gielgud's Letters
by John Gielgud
- Used
- Condition
- Very good. Dust jacket: Very good.
- ISBN 10
- 0297829890
- ISBN 13
- 9780297829898
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About This Item
Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2004. Very good. Dust jacket: Very good.. John Gielgud wrote letters almost every day of his adult life. Whether at home in London and later in Buckinghamshire, or acting abroad or on location, he delighted in sitting down each morning and recounting what had been going on and what he felt about events around him. He was still writing just a few days before his death aged 96 in May 2000. His letters are treasured by the recipients and the problem for the editor has been in selection. He wrote in an increasingly idiosyncratic hand and remarked that even he needed a magnifying glass at times to see what he had actually written. Through the letters, which begin with those to his mother, we meet a man who delights in gossip, in describing what he sees and experiences. Gielgud's love letters. They show that he was not shy is expressing the intimacies of personal relationships. Gielgud had a reputation for speaking his mind, and this is evident as he writes about his contemporaries, including the great actors of period: Olivier, Richardson, Redgrave, Peggy Ashcroft, Edith Evans and the like. Here is great letter-writing before the age of e-mail. GIELGUD'S LETTERS are a revelation - full of inside information and gossip.
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- Bookseller
- The Small Library Company (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 825
- Title
- Gielgud's Letters
- Author
- John Gielgud
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good. Dust jacket: Very good.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0297829890
- ISBN 13
- 9780297829898
- Publisher
- Weidenfeld & Nicolson
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2004
- Product_type
- Hardback
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The Small Library Company is selling the book collection belonging to the writer Angus Hall. The collection consists of literary biograry, literary fiction, crime fiction, true crime, philosophy, history, sociology, entertainment biographies and books about journalists!Please ask for photos of books most of which are in very good condition!