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Dear Mr Murray: Letters to a Gentleman Publisher by David McClay

Dear Mr Murray: Letters to a Gentleman Publisher

David McClay



  • Rs. 799.00


ISBN: 9781473662698

Author: David McClay

Language: English

Binding: Hardback

Publisher: Hodder And Stoughton

Imprint: John Murray

Published Year: 18-Oct-2018

Pages: 320

Intended to entertain and inspire, and spanning more than two hundred years, Dear Mr Murray is full of literary history and curiosities: from Charles Darwin's response to the negative reviews of On the Origin of Species to Adrian Conan Doyle challenging Harold Nicolson to a duel for insulting his father in the press; from David Livingstone's displeasure at the proposed drawing of a lion to represent his near-death encounter in Missionary Travels to William Makepeace Thackeray apologising for his drunken behaviour; from Byron berating John Murray for being fooled by his girlfriend's forgery of his signature to the poet James Hogg so desperate for money that he claims he won't be able to afford a Christmas goose; and from Jane Austen expressing concern about printing delays to Patrick Leigh Fermor beseeching Jock Murray not to visit him until he'd completed A Time of Gifts. Complemented by illustrations and reproductions of letters and envelopes, this is the perfect gift for book lovers everywhere.


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