50 Worlds Greatest Letters: Collectable Edition - Hardcover

Collectable Edition

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9387779831 ISBN 13: 9789387779839

Publisher: Fingerprint! Publishing, 2018

Synopsis

Letters are dwindling with time, but their beauty and authenticity remains timeless. People have been writing letters for ages, countless letters expressing distress, conveying happiness, delivering news, and even changing history. Find out what happened when the iconic artist, Leonardo da Vinci applied for a job as an engineer to a patron, when the renowned scientist, Albert Einstein wrote about whether scientists prayed or not, when the legendary singer, Elvis Presley asked for a badge of federal credentials from President Nixon in our annotated edition of 50 World's Greatest Letters, which encompasses all these and many more interesting, memorable, and riveting letters. Sir, more than kisses, letters mingle souls; for, thus friends absent speak. John Donne I feel certain that I am going mad again . . . And I shant recover this time. Virginia Woolf to Leonard Woolf . . . the element uranium may be turned into a new and important source of energy in the immediate future. Albert Einstein to Franklin Roosevelt . . . you are today the one person in the world who can prevent a war . . . M K Gandhi to Adolf Hitler Homosexuality . . . is nothing to be ashamed of . . . Sigmund Freud to a mother

Edition details

• Publisher: Fingerprint! Publishing
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9387779831
• ISBN 13: 9789387779839
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 248