{"product_id":"the-element-of-lavishness-letters-of-sylvia-townsend-warner-and-william-maxwell-1938-1978-9781582432472","title":"The Element of Lavishness: Letters of Sylvia Townsend Warner and William Maxwell 1938-1978","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn instant classic in the literature of friendship: the witty, affectionate 40-year correspondence between a great story-writer and her editor . . . pleasure and delight.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn July 1938, William Maxwell, then twenty-nine years old and the acting poetry editor of \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, wrote to Sylvia Townsend Warner inviting her to send him verse. Miss Warner, forty-four and famous for her novel Lolly Willowes, had recently begun writing stories for the magazine, antic, inimitable sketches of English life that Maxwell adored. The poems were sent, and a remarkable friendship was begun.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSylvia Townsend Warner\u003c\/b\u003e was a poet, short-story writer, and novelist, as well as an authority on early English music and a member of the Communist Party. Her first novel, \u003ci\u003eLolly Willowes\u003c\/i\u003e, appeared in 1926 and was the first ever Book-of-the-Month Club selection. \u003ci\u003eMr. Fortune's Maggot\u003c\/i\u003e, her second, followed a year later. \u003ci\u003eThe Salutation\u003c\/i\u003e was the title novella of a 1932 collection. Over the course of her long career, Sylvia Townsend Warner published five more novels, seven books of poetry, a translation of Proust, fourteen volumes of short stories, and a biography of T.H. White. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eWilliam Keepers Maxwell Jr.\u003c\/b\u003e was an American editor, novelist, short story writer, essayist, children's author, and memoirist. He served as a fiction editor at \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e from 1936 to 1975.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Catapult","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50357126562066,"sku":"9781582432472","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_65fb88e8-f003-450a-ba71-494459c41d39.jpg?v=1728318495","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-element-of-lavishness-letters-of-sylvia-townsend-warner-and-william-maxwell-1938-1978-9781582432472","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}