Why Friendship Matters

By Various

Designed to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautifully bound pocket-sized gift editions of much loved classic titles. Bound in real cloth, printed on high quality paper, and featuring ribbon markers and gilt edges, Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure.

Some friendships need celebrating, some are hard to navigate, and some need a bit of tender love and care. Delve into this anthology for a tour of all aspects of friendship by your favourite classic authors.

Why Friendship Matters is an inspiring collection that spans three centuries of writing and includes many favourite authors such as Michel de Montaigne, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Jane Austen. Readers will also discover lesser-known delights such as American writer Audre Lorde on her high school friendships and playwright Alice E. Ives writing about friendship between women. Contributors from across the globe celebrate and investigate all aspects of friendship; the strength of its bonds, how it can hurt and how it runs deep.

This edition is edited and introduced by Mich le Mendelssohn.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1529032652
• ISBN13: 9781529032659
• Release Date: November 2020
• Publisher: MacMillan Collector's Library
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 3.8" x 6.0"