This authoritative edition adds a dimension to our understanding of John Millington Synge...annotated in generous detail.' British Book News 'it is good to have all this material brought together, splendidly elucidated by Professor Saddlemyer's notes.' London Review of Books 'a model of editorial scholarship.' Times Higher Education Supplement
When John Millington Synge and Molly Allgood fell in love, he was thirty-five, she nineteen. Neither knew that he had Hodgkin's disease and would die in three years. Seldom able to be alone together, they wrote letters almost daily. Synge's letters-hers do not survive-are a poignant record of a love that was foredoomed.
