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Nearly 300 letters reveal Chopin as both man and artist and illuminate his fascinating world -- Europe of the 1830s and 1840s. ..."delightful gossip...merry rather than malicious...engagingly witty." -- "Books." Preface. Index.

"Portseinn Surtr dreamed he was awake but everyone else was asleep; then he dreamed he fell asleep and everyone else woke up." An excerpt from the "Book of the Icelanders" (c. 1125), the above phrase is set near the center of this monograph on Hreinn Fridfinnsson, whose poetic, surrealistic work it surveys.