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Letters of T.S. Eliot: 1898-1922

The Letters of T.S. Eliot series

Eliot's correspondence from his childhood in St. Louis until he had settled in England and published The Waste Land. Edited and with an Introduction by Valerie Eliot; Index; photographs.

Audience
adult
Length
epic · 704 pages

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