Diaries, letters and journals

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Frederick Philip Grove was an important Canadian novelist and essayist, and a pioneer in the development of Canadian fiction.

Charles Meeres served on the Western Front between 1915 and 1918.

The first collection of letters in English by one of the great writers of the twentieth centuryThis is the first collection in English of the extraordinary letters of one of the great writers of the twentieth century.

Thomas Cairns Livingstone began to note his day-to-day experiences in 1913 and continued faithfully for the next 20 years.

Erstmals wird hier das »Tagebuch während der Reise« von Max Weidenbach ungekürzt und kommentiert einer Leserschaft vorgestellt.

Living on Luck is a collection of letters from the 1960s mixed in with poems and drawings.

Sarah Emily Davies (1830-1921) lived and crusaded during a time of profound change for education and women's rights in England.

When Toby Little was five years old, he decided to write to someone in every country in the world.

Apart from her celebrity status as 'the art nun', generated by her television programmes, Sister Wendy has been approached throughout her life for counsel on the spiritual life and the life of prayer.

The letters collected here comprise an important chapter in the life of Walter Pater's literary career.

Philip Webb was a British architect known as a founder of the Arts and Crafts movement and also a key member of the Pre-Raphaelite circle.

Rahel Varnhagen fasziniert bis heute: Eine emanzipierte Jüdin, die sich taufen ließ, einen deutlich jüngeren nicht-jüdischen Mann heiratete und in Berlin in die Geschichte einging als Salonière, Chronistin und Gesprächspartnerin zahlreicher Künstler und Philosophen, darunter die Gebrüder Humboldt, Fichte, Hegel und Schleiermacher.

Power & the People covers the first two years of the New Labour government, beginning with their landslide victory at the polls in 1997.

'It wasn't easy being a Churchill child - and only Mary managed it with serenity and aplomb, as her diary of wartime ATS service shows' ANNE DE COURCY, SUNDAY TELEGRAPH'Mary's affectionately intimate and emotionally volatile diaries [.

This is a fully annotated edition of selected letters by (and in some cases to) Sir J.

The first book-length selection from the extraordinary unpublished diary of the late-Victorian writer "e;Michael Field"e;-the pen name of two female coauthors and romantic partnersMichael Field was known to late-Victorian readers as a superb poet and playwright-until Robert Browning let slip Field's secret identity: in fact, "e;Michael Field"e; was a pseudonym for Katharine Bradley (1846-1914) and Edith Cooper (1862-1913), who were lovers, a devoted couple, and aunt and niece.

Lucia Berlins Erzählungen, die zu den schönsten literarischen Wiederentdeckungen der letzten Jahre gehören, gehen auch deshalb so unter die Haut, weil sich in ihnen ihr eigenes wechselvolles Leben spiegelt.

Published to coincide with the anniversary of the First World War, this edition, superbly illustrated with contemporary photographs and colour maps, gives readers an insight into all aspects of the First World War, from the trenches to the Eastern Front, as well as the Mediterranean conflict.

The story of two Wayne State University students who were separated by World War II, told through the letters that they exchanged.

George Orwell was an inveterate keeper of diaries.

You Are Positively Awesome is a colourful and practical book for an everyday burst of positivity and an extra dose of self-kindness.

A Spitfire Named Connie is an exciting rollercoaster of a story.

The diary kept by Ronald Edward Tritton is a revealing and often frank record of the internal conflicts at the Public Relations Department of the War Office and the Ministry of Information during the Second World War.

Die Bände vier und fünf der »Sämtlichen Werke« enthalten mit »Siebzig verweht« die Tagebücher Jüngers aus den Jahren 1965 bis 1980, die wiederum mit der für ihn so charakteristischen Mischung aus Tagebuchnotaten, Briefen, Reflexionen und Kommentaren aufwarten.

"Du hast mir die Welt gezeigt.

THE SUNDAY TIMES AND INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER'The ultimate Holocaust testimony.

Peter Rühmkorf und Walther von der Vogelweide: eine freundschaftliche Annäherung zweier großer Lyriker über die Jahrhunderte hinweg, erzählt anhand von Gedichten, Briefen und Tagebuchnotizen.

John Clellon Holmes met Jack Kerouac on a hot New York City weekend in 1948, and until the end of Kerouac's life they were-in Holmes's words-"e;Brother Souls.

An annotated selection of the letters of the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and playwright Edna St.

This volume collects the most substantial correspondence and documents relating to Wittgenstein's long association with Cambridge between the years 1911 and his death in 1951, including the letters he exchanged with his most illustrious Cambridge contemporaries Russell, Keynes, Moore, and Ramsey (and previously published as Cambridge Letters).

The power and status of English male elites were not merely inherited at birth but developed through everyday interactions with family, peers and guardians.

Pat Leonard served throughout the Great War as a Chaplain to the Forces in France, Belgium and, after the Armistice, in Germany.

Fast 29 Milliarden Postsendungen wurden während des Ersten Weltkriegs verschickt, der deutlich größere Teil an die Front.

The Napier family are famous for their military exploits in the Peninsular War.

In the early 1930s, approximately 6,500 Finns from Canada and the United States moved to Soviet Karelia, on the border of Finland, to build a Finnish workers' society.

What would it be like to leave your loved ones behind knowing you may never see them again?

The Diary of a Nose is the story behind the creation of a perfume, from the head perfumer at Herm s.

Ein Schatz für alle Kafka-LiebhaberÜber drei Jahrzehnte hat der große Kafka-Biograph Reiner Stach Daten rund um das Leben von Franz Kafka gesammelt: Er hat eine unendliche Fülle an Material zusammengetragen, gesichtet und ausgewertet.

Agatha Christie's Complete Secret Notebooks brings together for the first time Secret Notebooks and Murder in the Making, two volumes that explore the fascinating contents of her 73 notebooks.

Drawing upon Queen Victoria's previously unpublished journals, Elizabeth Longford's classic biography recalls the contrasts and curiosities of an earlier era with exquisite detail - and transforms the queen from a severe, time-worn effigy into a human being who loved, feared and fumed.

Großherzogin Alexandrine von Mecklenburg-Schwerin, eine geborene Prinzessin von Preußen (1803–1892), und ihre Schwägerin, die Königin Elisabeth von Preußen (1801–1873), schrieben sich ein halbes Jahrhundert lang Briefe.

During the Civil War, John Singleton Mosby led the Forty-third Battalion, Virginia Cavalry, better known as Mosby's Rangers, in bold and daring operations behind Union lines.

This is the second volume in the first full-scale scholarly edition of Thoreau's correspondence in more than half a century.