Her feelings for and demands on Juliette were often overwhelming to them both. May’s fiery passion was a seductive yet sometimes destructive force. While May’s intimate relationship with Julian had not been a secret, her more powerful emotions for Juliette had.

The letters chart their meeting May’s affair with Juliette’s husband, Julian brother of Aldous Huxley, before the war her intense involvement with Juliette after the war and the ardent and life enhancing friendship that endured between them until Juliette’s death. In the extraordinary breadth and variation of these letters, we see Sarton in all her complexities and are privy to the nuances of her rich amitii amoureuse with Juliette, the preeminent muse and most enduring love of her life. May Sarton’s love for Juliette Huxley, ignited that first moment she saw her in 1936, transcended sixty years of friendship, passion, silence, and reconciliation. 9 new color watercolors.ĭear Juliette: Letters of May Sarton to Juliette Huxley This edition, beautifully illustrated with 9 new color watercolors by Jared Williams, will continue to be an enduring favorite. Sarton’s book is one of the most beloved stories ever written about the joys and tribulations inherent in sharing one’s life with a cat.

It will take just the right human companion, however, to make his transformation from Cat About Town to genuine Fur Person possible. May Sarton’s fictionalized account of her cat Tom Jones’s life and adventures prior to making the author’s acquaintance begins with a fiercely independent, nameless street cat who follows the ten commandments of the Gentleman Cat including ‘A Gentleman Cat allows no constraint of his person, not even loving constraint.’ But after several years of roaming, Tom has grown tired of his vagabond lifestyle, and he concludes that there might be some appeal after all in giving up the freedom of street life for a loving home.

A delightful, whimsical tale one of the most popular books for cat lovers ever written, now newly illustrated.

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