In the last eight years of his life - and he died when he was only thirty-three - Denton Welch wrote three novels, umpteen short stories, hundreds of poems, and - between 1942 and 1948, a profoundly personal and moving journal that recorded his swift maturity into a writer of genius. Therein he wrote of his battle with ill-health, his life lived in claustrophobic rooms, and (in frank, erotic terms) his frustrated pursuit of the 'ideal friend.' And yet he encountered some of the foremost writers of his time - Edith Sitwell, ...
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In the last eight years of his life - and he died when he was only thirty-three - Denton Welch wrote three novels, umpteen short stories, hundreds of poems, and - between 1942 and 1948, a profoundly personal and moving journal that recorded his swift maturity into a writer of genius. Therein he wrote of his battle with ill-health, his life lived in claustrophobic rooms, and (in frank, erotic terms) his frustrated pursuit of the 'ideal friend.' And yet he encountered some of the foremost writers of his time - Edith Sitwell, Herbert Read, Harold Nicolson, Vita Sackville West - and recorded every aspect of life with a fresh and arresting sensitivity.
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Good. -Covers moderately marked and creased w/ corners chipped and bumped-Reading creases to spine-Some tearing to bottom corner edges-Some grubby marks to edges-Edges of text block tanned-Content heavily toned-Book ow/ solid, clean and tight-xiii/378 pages. 8vo.
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Very Good; Yellowed paper. 0140100938. Written from 1942-1948 often while confined to bed in severe pain after an accident. 250gms weight; 8vo 8"-9" tall; 386 pages.
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