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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/255536 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Letters to a Young Poet Author: Rainer Maria Rilke Narrator: Max Deacon, Dan Stevens Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 51 minutes Release date: January 28, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 8 Genres: Essays & Anthologies Publisher's Summary: Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke, read by Max Deacon and Dan Stevens. At the start of the twentieth century, Rainer Maria Rilke wrote a series of letters to a young officer cadet, advising him on writing, love, sex, 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 book also contains the 'Letter from a Young Worker', a striking polemic against Christianity written in letter-form, near the end of Rilke's life. In Lewis Hyde's introduction, he explores the context in which these letters were written and how the author embraced his isolation as a creative force. Charlie Louth's afterword discusses the similarities and contrasts of the two works, and Rilke's religious and sexual wordplay. This edition also contains a chronology, notes, and suggested further reading.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/255536 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Letters to a Young Poet Author: Rainer Maria Rilke Narrator: Max Deacon, Dan Stevens Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 51 minutes Release date: January 28, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 8 Genres: Essays & Anthologies Publisher's Summary: Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke, read by Max Deacon and Dan Stevens. At the start of the twentieth century, Rainer Maria Rilke wrote a series of letters to a young officer cadet, advising him on writing, love, sex, 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 book also contains the 'Letter from a Young Worker', a striking polemic against Christianity written in letter-form, near the end of Rilke's life. In Lewis Hyde's introduction, he explores the context in which these letters were written and how the author embraced his isolation as a creative force. Charlie Louth's afterword discusses the similarities and contrasts of the two works, and Rilke's religious and sexual wordplay. This edition also contains a chronology, notes, and suggested further reading.
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