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. Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics they take us from
snowy Japan to springtime Vienna from haunted New England to a sun-drenched Mediterranean
island and from a game of chess on the ocean to a love story on the moon. Beautifully designed
and printed these collectible editions are bound in colourful tactile cloth and stamped with
foil. 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.
