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  • Published: 6 June 2023
  • ISBN: 9780241620038
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 128
  • RRP: $26.00

Letters to a Young Poet





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.

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.

  • Published: 6 June 2023
  • ISBN: 9780241620038
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 128
  • RRP: $26.00

Other books in the series

Emma
Persuasion
The Black Tulip
The Lady of the Camellias
On Sparta
Love
Annals
Military Dispatches

About the author

RAINER MARIA RILKE

RAINER MARIA RILKE (1875-1926) is widely regarded as one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century. His works include Duino Elegies, The Sonnets to Orpheus, and Letters to a Young Poet.

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