Dashing For The Post: The Letters Of Patrick Leigh Fermor
Language: English
Published by John Murray, 2016
- First Edition
- Hardcover
- Used
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Condition: Used - Very good
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First edition first printing hardback, 2016, with unclipped jacket. In overall very good used condition with only minor signs of age, handling and storage - dust jacket rubbed to edges (now protected); boards clean and crisp. Binding tight and appears almost unread. Internally clean, no annotation or inscriptions; slight toning to page-ends but text and illustrations bright and clear throughout. Photographs available. Not an old library book.
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- Title
- Dashing For The Post: The Letters Of Patrick Leigh Fermor
- Author
- Adam Sisman (editor)
- Publisher
- John Murray
- Publication year
- 2016
- Condition
- Very Good
- Dust jacket
- Very Good
- Binding
- Hardback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1473622468
- ISBN 13
- 9781473622463
- Edition
- 1st.
- Seller catalogs
- Auto/Biography
A revelatory collection of letters written by the author of The Broken Road.
Handsome, spirited and erudite, Patrick Leigh Fermor was a war hero and one of the greatest travel writers of his generation. He was also a spectacularly gifted friend.
The letters in this collection span almost seventy years, the first written ten days before Paddy's twenty-fifth birthday, the last when he was ninety-four. His correspondents include Deborah Devonshire, Ann Fleming, Nancy Mitford, Lawrence Durrell, Diana Cooper and his lifelong companion, Joan Rayner; he wrote his first letter to her in his cell at the monastery Saint Wandrille, the setting for his reflections on monastic life in A Time to Keep Silence. His letters exhibit many of his most engaging characteristics: his zest for life, his unending curiosity, his lyrical descriptive powers, his love of language, his exuberance and his tendency to get into scrapes - particularly when drinking and, quite separately, driving.
Here are plenty of extraordinary stories: the hunt for Byron's slippers in one of the remotest regions of Greece; an ignominious dismissal from Somerset Maugham's Villa Mauresque; hiding behind a bush to dub Dirk Bogarde into Greek during the shooting of Ill Met by Moonlight, the film based on the story of General Kreipe's abduction; his extensive travels. Some letters contain glimpses of the great and the good, while others are included purely for the joy of the jokes.
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About the Author
Adam Sisman is the author of several biographies, most recently of John le Carré. His Boswell's Presumptuous Task won the prestigious US National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography. He is also co-editor of One Hundred Letters, a volume of selected letters of Hugh Trevor-Roper. Adam is an Honorary Fellow of the University of St Andrews, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
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