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Letters to Father - (Penguin Classics) Annotated by Suor Maria Celeste (Paperback)

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  • The fascinating letters of Galileo's eldest daughter to her father Placed in a convent at the age of thirteen, Virginia Galilei, Galileo's eldest daughter, wrote to her father continually.
  • About the Author: Dava Sobel is an award-winning former science writer for The New York Times.
  • 176 Pages
  • Literary Collections, letters
  • Series Name: Penguin Classics

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From the bestselling author of "Galileo's Daughter" comes a book of the actual letters that inspired that story. The letters span a dramatic decade and reveal an exceptional woman who also was an intelligent, pious, and literary nun.



Book Synopsis



The fascinating letters of Galileo's eldest daughter to her father

Placed in a convent at the age of thirteen, Virginia Galilei, Galileo's eldest daughter, wrote to her father continually. Now Dava Sobel has translated into English all 124 surviving letters that Virginia (renamed Suor Maria Celeste at the convent) wrote to Galileo. The letters span a dramatic decade that included the Thirty Years' War, the bubonic plague, and the development of Galileo's own universe-changing discoveries. Suor Maria Celeste's letters touch on these events, but mostly they focus on details of everyday life that connect her and her father: descriptions of confections she sent to him; news of his estate, which she managed while he was on trial; a request for Galileo to fix the convent clock. Her prose reveals an exceptional woman and presents a memorable portrait of deep affection between a father and daughter.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.



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"Finely produced...clearly a labor of love." --Los Angeles Times

"Turn off CNN and leave behind the troubled modern world for a leisurely sojourn in a 17th-century convent." --Chicago Tribune

"The intelligent, pious, and literary nun comes across centuries as a compellingly intriguing woman in her own right." --Booklist




About the Author



Dava Sobel is an award-winning former science writer for The New York Times. The author of the bestselling Longitude and Galileo's Daughter, Sobel's work has also appeared in Audubon, Discover, Life, and The New Yorker.
Dimensions (Overall): 7.77 Inches (H) x 5.05 Inches (W) x .52 Inches (D)
Weight: .31 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 176
Series Title: Penguin Classics
Genre: Literary Collections
Sub-Genre: Letters
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Format: Paperback
Author: Suor Maria Celeste
Language: English
Street Date: December 31, 2002
TCIN: 90812008
UPC: 9780142437155
Item Number (DPCI): 247-45-8123
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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