Letters to my Grandson on the Glory of English Prose (1922)

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Stephen Coleridge (1854-1936), great-grand-nephew of the poet, wrote these letters to a real grandson : each picks a passage of great English prose — Malory, the Bible, Bunyan, Gibbon, Ruskin — and shows what makes it sing. A charming, personal anthology of the plain style, with the author’s portrait.This is a faithful print-on-demand facsimile of the 1922 London (Mills & Boon) edition, reproduced in full from a library copy. The historical text is reproduced without modification; only the format, margins and legibility have been reset for modern printing.