Download or read book The Oxford Book of Letters written by Frank Kermode and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1995 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive anthology of letters in English spans five centuries, from Elizabeth I to Groucho Marx, from politicians and poets, from the famous to the unknown. With subjects ranging from the mundane to the extraordinary, from the tragic to the hilarious, this volume celebrates the glory of the written word and what may well be a dying art form.