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  • Published: 3 March 2016
  • ISBN: 9780241252062
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 128

Letters to a Young Poet




46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946

What matters is to live everything. Live the questions for now.

  • Published: 3 March 2016
  • ISBN: 9780241252062
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 128

Other books in the series

The New Penguin Book Of American Short Stories, From Washington Irving To Lydia Davis
When You Are Old
The Black Tulip
The Lady of the Camellias
Selected Poetry
Venus in Furs
Man and Superman
Military Dispatches
The Prelude

About the author

Rainer Maria Rilke

Rainer Maria Rilke was born in 1875 in Prague. He studied literature, art history and philosophy in both Munich and Prague, and is often considered one of the German language's greatest 20th century poets. His two most famous verse sequences are the Sonnets to Orpheus and the Duino Elegies; his two most famous prose works are the Letters to a Young Poet and the semi-autobiographical The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge. He died in 1926 in Switzerland after suffering from undiagnosed, chronic acute leukemia during his final months.

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