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Letters to a Young Poet

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Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith.

Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they take us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, from haunted New England to a sun-drenched Mediterranean island, and from a game of chess on the ocean to a love story on the moon. Beautifully designed and printed, these collectible editions are bound in colourful, tactile cloth and stamped with foil.

Over the course of six years, Maria Rilke wrote a series of letters to a young officer cadet, advising him on writing, love, suffering and the nature of advice itself; these profound and lyrical letters have since become hugely influential for writers and artists of all kinds. This volume also contains the 'Letter from a Young Worker', a striking polemic against Christianity written too in letter form.

About This Edition

ISBN: 9780241620038
Publication date: 23rd February 2023
Author: Rainer Maria Rilke, Rainer Maria Rilke
Publisher: Penguin Classics an imprint of Penguin Books Ltd
Format: Hardback
Pagination: 128 pages
Series: Little Clothbound Classics
Genres: Diaries, letters and journals
Literary studies: poetry and poets
Modern and contemporary poetry (c 1900 onwards)