Seventy Letters: some hitherto untranslated texts from published and unpublished sources

"These letters, written before and during the Second World War, have with one exception not been translated before, and the originals have been published dispersedly or not at all. Though inevitably incomplete, this book is offered as a substantial sample of Simone Weil's correspondence, throwing new light on her life, personality, and thought. It includes a long correspondence with an industrialist arising out of her own experiences as a factory worker, as well as reflections on politics, art, philosophy, mathematics, and religion, some descriptions of travel in Italy, and her last letters to her parents from London, where she strenuously shared the life of war-time England until her premature death, hastened by voluntary malnutrition, in 1943. Her letters and other writings show the remarkable quality of her mind, and this volume and her Essays (1962) show Sir Richard Ree's skill as editor and translator."