Growing up in Huntsville, Alabama, during the first quarter of the 20th century, Alabama-born organist and composer Lee Orville Erwin, like many of the 20th century's great American composers, spent time studying in Paris.
'Captures both Barbara and her writing so miraculously' JILLY COOPERPicked as a Book to Look Forward to in 2021 by the Guardian, The Times and the ObserverA Radio 4 Book of the Week, April 2021Barbara Pym became beloved as one of the wittiest novelists of the late twentieth century, revealing the inner workings of domestic life so brilliantly that her friend Philip Larkin announced her the era's own Jane Austen.
SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER AND POLITICAL BOOK OF THE YEAR'The wickedest political diaries since Alan Clark's' Daily Mail'Riotously candid' Decca Aitkenhead, Sunday Times'An acute political intelligence at work' Guardian'Glorious, compelling, jaw-dropping' Evening StandardWhat is it like to be a wife of a politician in modern-day Britain?
BAYARD RUSTIN POSTHUMOUSLY AWARDED THE 2013 PRESIDENTIAL MEDAL OF FREEDOMA master strategist and tireless activist, Bayard Rustin is best remembered as the organizer of the 1963 March on Washington, one of the largest nonviolent protests ever held in the United States.
Luise Rinser und Karl Rahner haben 22 Jahre lang Briefe ausgetauscht, die ein Zeugnis ihrer innigen Freundschaft sind, ihres intensiven Gedankenaustausches und ihrer Treue zum einmal gewählten Lebensweg.
From rom coms to wrestling and fatherhood to fist fights, Robert Crampton's How to Be a Beta Male is a brilliantly funny and sometimes moving insight into being a modern-day bloke.
Karl August Varnhagens bisher unveröffentlichtes ReisejournalEin denkwürdiges Zeugnis der romantischen Kunstbegeisterung und politischen Opposition gegen die napoleonische Besatzungspolitik - aber auch der Liebessehnsucht eines jungen Mannes, der sich zwischen zwei Frauen lange nicht zu entscheiden vermochte.
Die hier als Edition vorgelegten Briefe Ella Wengers offenbaren praktisch alle Facetten, die das Leben jüdischer Bürger:innen in Wien unter den Bedingungen des Nationalsozialismus in den Jahren zwischen Anschluss (1938) und dem Beginn der 'Endlösung' 1942 ausgemacht haben: Ausgrenzung und Drangsalierung, Diskriminierung und Entrechtung, den Verlust von Arbeit, Eigentum und Wohnung, das Zusammendrängen auf immer weniger Wohnraum, Verzweiflung und Suizid, schließlich die Deportationen; aber auch die Bemühungen um Selbstbehauptung und Flucht.
Launched at the 1982 Notting Hill Carnival, The Voice newspaper captured and addressed a generation figuring out what it meant to be Black and British.
Spanning his entire life, The Selected Letters of Thornton Wilder is a comprehensive and fascinating collection of the great American writers correspondence.
+++Die lange verschwundenen Tagebücher von Alfred Rosenberg, dem Chef-Ideologen der NSDAP, erstmals in einer Gesamtausgabe – ein Schlüsseldokument zur Geschichte von Nationalsozialismus und Holocaust+++Seit 1946 verschollen, wurden die Tagebücher des NSDAP-Reichsleiters Alfred Rosenberg erst 2013 aufgefunden.
Letters Home represents Sylvia Plath's correspondence from her time at Smith College in the early 1950s, through her meeting with, and subsequent marriage to, the poet Ted Hughes, up to her death in February 1963.
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.
At the long-term care facility where Robert Rebeins father lands after a horrific car crash, a shadow box hangs next to each room, its contents suggesting something of the occupants life.
Die Herrenhäuser Hofgärtner Johann Christoph Wendland (1755-1828), Heinrich Ludolph Wendland (1792-1869) und Hermann Wendland (1823-1903) waren über ein Jahrhundert für den Berggarten zuständig.
The letters in this volume, found in the original Dutch in the archives of the Netherlands Emigration Service in Holland, form a unique chronicle of one European homesteader in Saskatchewan from 1910 to 1913.
The long awaited and highly revealing diaries of the politician, diplomat, and socialite (married to Lady Diana Cooper)'This is a fabulous, jaw-dropping read' SUNDAY TIMES'Duff Cooper was as close to the action as anyone during the dramatic events of the mid-20th century.
Nostalgic, witty and filled with characters and situations that people of all ages will recognise, Dear Lupin is the entire correspondence of a Father to his only son, spanning nearly 25 years.
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.
A revealing collection of letters from Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Anne SextonWhile confessional poet Anne Sexton included details of her life and battle with mental illness in her published work, her letters to family, friends, and fellow poets provide an even more intimate glimpse into her private world.
