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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

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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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