ELIOT, T.S. [Stephen Spender].
The Family Reunion.
London: Faber and Faber Limited , 1939.
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"Meeting is for strangers. Meeting is for those who do not know each other:" First Edition of The Family Reunion; Inscribed by T.S. Eliot
First edition of this brilliant play in two acts. Octavo, original publisher's gray cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Stephen Spender from his friend T. S. Eliot." The recipient, Stephen Spender, was a renowned poet, critic, and friend of T.S. Eliot. In response to a request for a copy of 'The Family Reunion,' in a letter to Spender dated 24 January 1939, Eliot assured Spender, "You shall certainly have a copy of the play as soon as one is available..." The present copy of the play is undoubtedly the copy to which Eliot refers. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Housed in a custom clamshell box.
First presented in 1939 to an unsuccessful release and a later revival in the 1940s, T. S. Eliot's 'The Family Reunion' portrays the hero's journey from guilt to redemption. Some literary critics have thought aspects of the tormented hero reflect Eliot's difficulties with his estrangement from his first wife, Vivienne Haigh-Wood Eliot.
The Family Reunion.
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