Diaries, letters and journals

As the snow fell on the face it froze, and my hair was matted with ice, and icicles formed on my eyelashes.

"It's a very weird sensation to be shot at… Very often you see the gunman when it's too late or you don't see him at all.

«Man liebt nicht weil, man liebt obwohl.

This book represents the most comprehensive study of women's letters and letter-writing during the early modern period so far undertaken, and acts as an important corrective to traditional ways of reading and discussing letters as private, elite, male, and non-political.

Every year in the United States, 12 per cent of all births are preterm births, 5 per cent of all babies need help to breathe at birth, and 3 per cent of neonates are born with at least one severe malformation.

Elucidates the language, literary style and distinctive approach to the philosophy of Seneca''s letters in their historical context.

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility.

Not many young farmers of the early nineteenth century left diaries that have come down to us, still fewer from Shropshire, at a time when country life continued much as it had since long before the Industrial Revolution.

In this final volume of Christopher Isherwood's diaries, capstone of a million-word masterwork, he greets advancing age with poignant humour and an unquenchable appetite for the new.

In the winter of 1818, Henry Rowe Schoolcraft set out from Potosi, Missouri, to document lead mines in the interior of the Ozarks.

During the Second World War, across the frontline as well as on the Home Front, millions of people recorded their thoughts of their experiences - whether in letters, their personal diaries or those prosecuting the war giving speeches.

Eine reiche Quelle des literarischen Lebens im 19.

The official companion to ITV's hotly anticipated new drama, The Victoria Letters delves into the private writings of the young Queen Victoria, painting a vivid picture of the personal life of one of England's greatest monarchs.

Northrop Frye's status as one of the most influential critics and intellectuals of the twentieth century makes it difficult to gauge the personal qualities of the man behind the work.

This vintage book comprises a fascinating collection of Bonaparte's letters; selected, translated, and edited by J.

In 1910 Robert Falcon Scott and Roald Amundsen set sail for Antarctica, each from his own starting point, and the epic race for the South Pole was on.

From a young age, Mary Lou Biel has relied on her faith and close relationship with God to help guide her throughout her life.

An excursion through the Japanese-American internment using archival materials from the author's own family.

Este libro es singular: es el diario de un obrero petrolero.

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.

'As a mayor, I am responsible for the upkeep of rural roads; as poet, I prefer to see them neglected.

A unique first-hand narrative of the Falklands war.

Why a monumental diary by an aunt and niece who published poetry together as ';Michael Field'and who were partners and lovers for decadesis one of the great unknown works of late-Victorian and early modernist literatureMichael Field, the renowned late-Victorian poet, was well known to be the pseudonym of Katharine Bradley (18461914) and her niece, Edith Cooper (18621913).

Following Antonietta and Loris's first kiss in the shadows of the Italian Alps barely a year after the end of the Second World War, the couple was divided by a distance far greater than could ever have been imagined.

Recipient of theFrancis Parkman Prize from the Society of American Historians Ralph Waldo Emerson is one of the most important figures in the history of American thought, religion, and literature.

Traveling India in the Age of Gandhi is a study of "e;armchair"e; travel writers who journeyed to India during what has often been termed the "e;Age of Gandhi,"e; placed between 1914-1948.

Die spektakuläre Erstveröffentlichung eines der bedeutendsten Briefwechsel der LiteraturDer Briefwechsel zwischen Gretha und Ernst Jünger geht über eine Korrespondenz zwischen Ehepartnern weit hinaus.

Der beste Kenner der Druckgeschichte von Lichtenbergs Werken und findige Interpret rätselhafter Wendungen legt hier die Quintessenz eines Forscherlebens vor.

In looking closely at Horace Walpole's Correspondence, George E.

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

The bundle of 31 letters, the pages of which had long yellowed with age, had lain hidden in the attic where they were found for over a century.

'Smart and funny .

Volume Two covers the early years of his editorship of The Criterion (the periodical that Eliot launched with Lady Rothermere's backing in 1922), publication of The Hollow Men and the course of Eliot's thinking about poetry and poetics after The Waste Land.

This collection of correspondence between Clemens and Rogers may be thought of as a continuation of Mark Twains Letters to His Publishers, 1867-1894, edited by Hamlin Hill.

The correspondence of John Dryden is the definitive edition of the letters of the most important playwright and poet of the late seventeenth century.

As the snow fell on the face it froze, and my hair was matted with ice, and icicles formed on my eyelashes.

Die Passion des Widerstands1929 verlässt Mildred Harnack ihre Heimat Wisconsin und zieht mit ihrem Mann Arvid, einem Cousin Dietrich Bonhoeffers, nach Berlin.

Die grandios erzählte Generationengeschichte einer Star-Journalistin, die nach einer Gehirn-Operation ihren eigenen verdrängten Erinnerungen und den Geheimnissen ihrer Familie auf die Spur kommt.

The Sunday Times bestselling edition of Chips Channon's remarkable diaries.

'Janet Frame's luminous words are the more precious because they were snatched from the jaws of the disaster of her early life.

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility.

Using the diaries of Luftwaffe commanders, rare contemporary photographs and other previously unpublished sources, Robert Forsyth analyzes the human, strategic, tactical and technical elements of one of the most dramatic operations arranged by the Luftwaffe.