Each night, when the hours of painting and drawing were over, Vincent van Gogh put pen to paper and poured out his heart through letters - no thought was too small, no element of his craft too insignificant, no happening too trivial but it was scrupulously recorded and shared. Irving Stone has edited the letters of Vincent in such a way as to retain every line of beauty, significance and importance. "Vincent was as great a writer and philosopher," Stone says, "as he was a painter."