Diaries, letters and journals

Before her death in 2002, Mary Wesley told her biographer Patrick Marnham: 'after I met Eric I never looked at anyone else again.

The comprehensive collection of letters spanning the adult life of one of the world's greatest storytellers, now revised and expanded to include more than 150 previously unseen letters, with revealing new insights into The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion.

Alonzo Bryant Searing, a high school graduate aged 18, enlisted in the 11th New Jersey Volunteer Regiment in Dover, New Jersey in 1862 and served two years and ten months as a private in the Union Army.

This early work by Edward Streeter was originally published in 1919 and we are now republishing it as part of our WWI Centenary Series.

'Beautiful .

Lucien A.

A new selection of Vincent Van Gough's letters, based on an entirely new translation, revealing his religious struggles, his fascination with the French Revolution, his search for love and his involvement in humanitarian causes.

Eine reiche Quelle des literarischen Lebens im 19.

The Letters of Thom Gunn presents the first complete portrait of the private life, reflections, and relationships of a maverick figure in the history of British and American poetry.

Margot Asquith was the wife of Herbert Henry Asquith, the Liberal Prime Minister who led Britain into war in August 1914.

Translated from the medieval French, this book is a landmark English-language version of the work of Gilles le Bouvier.

Ein Mann mogelt sich durch den Zeitspalt zwischen Kommunismus und Faschismus, glitscht durch die Leben liebender Frauen.

A Kansas Notable BookFinalist: High Plains Book AwardAt 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.

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.

Anne Langton (1804-1893) arrived in Upper Canada in 1837 to join her brother John on his settler farm near Fenelon Falls, Ontario.

WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY BILL GATESIn this warm, insightful portrait of the Winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1965, we see the wisdom, humour and curiosity of Richard Feynman through a series of conversations with his friend Ralph Leighton.

Between 1941 and 1945 as many as 70,000 inmates died at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in northwestern Germany.

What was it like to be a soldier's wife in Canada during the First World War?

Albert John ('Jack') Martin was a thirty-two-year-old clerk at the Admiralty when he was called up to serve in the army in September 1916.

An exceptional document of an extraordinary life, The Soul of Things is the memoir of Holocaust survivor Eva Fahidi.

Prague, 1940-1942.

Beginning as surprisingly formal notes from the road to his friends Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac, the letters gradually deepen in substance and style.

Charles Greville (1794-1865) made his first occasional diary entries in 1814, but the diary only became a regular habit in the mid-1820s, continuing with occasional breaks, about which he is self-reproachful, through the reigns of George IV, William IV and Victoria.

One Good Thing is a charming collision of memoir with the living, exuberant, and vulnerable natural world.

'Wodehouse said letters make "e;a wonderful oblique form for an autobiography,"e; and Sophie Ratcliffe's expertly edited collection amply proves the point.

The correspondence of Katherine Mansfield and John Middleton Murry is a story in its own right, as compelling and poignant as any that Mansfield herself invented.

Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon was the most unconventional and influential leader of the Victorian women's movement.

Der älteste Sohn Thomas Manns hinterließ ein ungeschminktes Protokoll seines außergewöhnlichen Lebens.

One of Germany's greatest poets, Johann Christian Friedrich H lderlin (1770-1843) was also a prose writer of intense feeling, intelligence and perception.

In July 2012 Thomas Harding s fourteen-year-old son Kadian was killed in a bicycle accident.

In 1939 Christopher Isherwood and W.

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.

Eine reiche Quelle des literarischen Lebens im 19.

Arthur Schnitzler wird bis heute als der Dichter literarischer Grazie und unverbindlicher Erotik betrachtet.

William McKnight was a member of the Seventh Ohio Volunteer Cavalry from September 1862 until his death in June of 1864.

Letters from the year in which Darwin investigated insectivorous plants and received responses to his book on expression of emotions.

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

The journal of Philadelphia Quaker Elizabeth Sandwith Drinker (1735-1807) is perhaps the single most significant personal record of eighteenth-century life in America from a woman's perspective.

Tagebücher werden seit 1800 wissenschaftlich ausgewertet.

Letters from 1882, the year of Darwin''s death, and a supplement of nearly 400 earlier letters.

This book offers the first English translation of journals written by four leading figures in the Moravian Church who spent time in the British colony of Georgia between 1735 and 1737.