Letters to Father: Suor Maria Celeste to Galileo, 1623-1633 (Penguin Classics) - Softcover

Maria Celeste, Suor

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0142437158 ISBN 13: 9780142437155

Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group, 2003

Synopsis

Letters to Father From the bestselling author of "Galileo's Daughter" comes a book of the actual letters that inspired that story. The letters span a dramatic decade and reveal an exceptional woman who also was an intelligent, pious, and literary nun. Full description

About this title

Review:

"Finely produced...clearly a labor of love." --Los Angeles Times

"Turn off CNN and leave behind the troubled modern world for a leisurely sojourn in a 17th-century convent." --Chicago Tribune

"The intelligent, pious, and literary nun comes across centuries as a compellingly intriguing woman in her own right." --Booklist

About the Author:

Dava Sobel is an award-winning former science writer for The New York Times. The author of the bestselling Longitude and Galileo's Daughter, Sobel's work has also appeared in Audubon, Discover, Life, and The New Yorker.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0142437158
• ISBN 13: 9780142437155
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 176