A Passionate Prodigality, Letters to Alan Bird from Richard Aldington, 1949-1962
by Aldington, Richard
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- Hardcover
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- Fine copy/fine
- ISBN 10
- 0871042592
- ISBN 13
- 9780871042590
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New York: New York Public Library & Readex Books, 1975. First edition. Hardcover. Fine copy/fine. Large 8vo. Cloth. Pp. xvi, 362. Index and biographical index. Edited by Miriam J Benkovitz This is a remarkable feat of scholarship, with notes and biographical detail which are lively and thorough. Aldington wrote these letters to his collaborator at Oxford, Alan Bird, when he was researching the life of T. E. Lawrence. The book he wrote eventually, Lawrence of Arabia, A Biographical Enquiry, created a storm when it was published because it disputed the heroic stories which had been in large part invented, or at least mythologized, by Lawrence himself. Aldington's letters here have been scrupulously edited by Miriam J. Benkovitz who has included detailed notes which thoroughly identify the people and events involved.
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- Title
- A Passionate Prodigality, Letters to Alan Bird from Richard Aldington, 1949-1962
- Author
- Aldington, Richard
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine copy
- Jacket Condition
- fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- ISBN 10
- 0871042592
- ISBN 13
- 9780871042590
- Publisher
- New York Public Library & Readex Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1975
- Keywords
- Letters. Richard Aldington. Alan Bird. Lawrence of Arabia. T. E. Lawrence.
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- Letters and Diaries;
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