The Letters of Dorothy L Sayers, Volume II: 1937-1943: From Novelist to Playwright

✍ Scribed by Sayers, Dorothy L

• Book ID: 109349384
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 3 MB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781466886353

✦ Synopsis

This second volume of Dorothy L. Sayers covers the seven years in which the greatest detective novelist of the golden age--and the creator of Lord Peter Wimsey--turns away from mystery writing to become a playwright and, in turn, a controversial figure.

Accused on the one hand of blasphemy, acclaimed on the other as one of the most influential lay theologians of her time, she found herself drawn into a vast network of correspondence, dealing with a wide range of social concerns.

These, after all, are the years of World War II, of air-raids, threats of invasion, rationing, lack of domestic help, congested travel, and blackouts. But there was no blackout in the creativity of Dorothy L. Sayers; in fact, this is the peak period f her creative endeavors: seventeen plays, several books, innumerable articles and talks--and hundreds of letters.

The letters reveal the context of her published words and send the reader back to them with new understanding....