Original Letters from India (New York Review Books Classics)
Eliza Fay,E.M. Forster,Simon Winchester
Language: English
Published by NYRB Classics 2010-03-24, 2010
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- Title
- Original Letters from India (New York Review Books Classics)
- Author
- Eliza Fay,E.M. Forster,Simon Winchester
- Publisher
- NYRB Classics 2010-03-24
- Publication year
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1590173368
- ISBN 13
- 9781590173367
When the intrepid Mrs. Fay departed from Dover more than two hundred years ago, she embarked on a grueling twelve-month journey through much of Europe, up the Nile, over the deserts of Egypt, and finally across the ocean to India. Along the way her party encountered wars, territorial disputes, brigands, and even imprisonment.
Fay was a contemporary of Jane Austen, but her adventures are worthy of a novel by Daniel Defoe. These letters—unfiltered, forthright, and often hilarious—bring the perils and excitements of an earlier age to life.
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About the Author
E.M. Forster (1879-1970) was a critic and novelist. Among his books are A Room with a View, A Passage to India, Howards End, and Aspects of the Novel. He discovered Eliza Fay's Letters while living in India in 1921-22 and published two articles about her journey before compiling the notes that were originally published in the 1925 edition of the book.
Simon Winchester is the author of, among other titles, The Professor and the Madman, Krakatoa, The Map That Changed the World, and The Man Who Loved China. He has written two books relating to India, where he was based as a foreign correspondent from 1976-1979, Stones of Empire (with Jan Morris) and, most recently Calcutta. His newest book is Atlantic: A Biography of the Ocean. He lives in New York and the Berkshires.
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