Categories: Diaries, Letters & Journals


Letters to a Young Poet - Penguin Little Black Classics
Rainer Maria Rilke (author), Charlie Louth (translator)
Paperback (03 Mar 2016)


Publishers Synopsis

What matters is to live everything. Live the questions for now.

A hugely influential collection for writers and artists of all kinds, Rilkes profound and lyrical letters to a young friend advise on writing, love, sex, suffering and the nature of advice itself.

One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first-ever Penguin Classic in 1946. Each book gives readers a taste of the Classics huge range and diversity, with works from around the world and across the centuries - including fables, decadence, heartbreak, tall tales, satire, ghosts, battles and elephants.


Book information

ISBN: 9780241252055
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint: Penguin Classics
Pub date: 03 Mar 2016
DEWEY: 831.912
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Sales rank: 1615
Number of pages: 51
Weight: 56g
Height: 111mm
Width: 161mm
Spine width: 7mm