Warten und Hoffen – das ist die bewegende und autobiografische Geschichte eines kleinen Waisenjungen aus der Nachkriegszeit, dem es gelungen ist, sich nach und nach ein eigenes, selbstbestimmtes Leben aufzubauen.
Con una mirada más allá de muchas convenciones, Anne Lister escribió, de forma sistemática y minuciosa hasta su muerte, sus diarios; en ellos recoge sus experiencias personales y cotidianas —dibujando así el paisaje social, económico, político y geográfico de su época—, y los detalles de sus relaciones con otras mujeres.
Just after midnight on 22 April 1916 on the Western Front, a sergeant from the 15th (1st London) Royal Welsh Fusiliers came sliding and stumbling along the dark, mud-filled trench towards the four men, huddled together and soaked-through, in the shallow dugout.
Publicado en Francia en 1973, y en México en 1974, "Vida y muerte del Chile popular", del destacado sociólogo francés Alain Touraine, aparece -y quizás circula- por primera vez en nuestro país.
From the much-celebrated author of the satirical novel Evelina (1778), this volume is the collected journals and private correspondence of Fanny Burney, Queen Charlotte's Keeper of the Robes.
Taking as its point of departure Omer Bartov s acclaimed Anatomy of a Genocide, this volume brings together previously unknown accounts by three individuals from Buczacz.
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.
Arnold Schoenberg and Thomas Mann, two towering figures of twentieth-century music and literature, both found refuge in the German-exile community in Los Angeles during the Nazi era.
God's Little Daughters examines a set of letters written by Chinese Catholic women from a small village in Manchuria to their French missionary, "e;Father Lin,"e; or Dominique Maurice Pourqui, who in 1870 had returned to France in poor health after spending twenty-three years at the local mission of the Socit des Missions Etrangres de Paris (MEP).
This volume presents a selection of 500 letters by Clarence Darrow, the pre-eminent courtroom lawyer of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.
Mark Twain among the Indians and Other Indigenous Peoples is the first book-length study of the writer's evolving views regarding the aboriginal inhabitants of North America and the Southern Hemisphere, and his deeply conflicted representations of them in fiction, newspaper sketches, and speeches.
The writings of Rav Baruch Shalom HaLevi Ashlag (RABASH), the firstborn son and successor of Rav Yehuda Ashlag, author of the Sulam (Ladder) commentary on The Zohar, disclose RABASH’s profound knowledge of human nature, and take us on a journey to our own souls.
Tuvieron que pasar setenta años desde la muerte de Juana Borrero en 1896, para que la última de sus hermanas vivas, Mercedes, entregara el epistolario amoroso entre la poeta y su Carlos Pio para su publicación.
Here is young Sam Clemens-in the world, getting famous, making love-in 155 magnificently edited letters that trace his remarkable self-transformation from a footloose, irreverent West Coast journalist to a popular lecturer and author of The Jumping Frog, soon to be a national and international celebrity.
'There are very few writers that I admire more than Helen Garner'DAVID NICHOLLS 'The greatest, richest journals by a writer since Virginia Woolf's'RACHEL COOKE, OBSERVER'Marvellous, all eight hundred pages of it'COLM T IB N'The great Australian writer's masterpiece'THE TIMESHelen Garner has kept a diary for most of her adult life.
A remarkable collection of charming and eloquent letters that contain the seeds of Tocqueville’s later masterful account of American democracy Young Alexis de Tocqueville arrived in the United States for the first time in May 1831, commissioned by the French government to study the American prison system.
A provocative exploration of intellectual exchange across four centuries of European history by the author of When the World Spoke French In this fascinating study, preeminent historian Marc Fumaroli reveals how an imagined “republic” of ideas and interchange fostered the Italian Renaissance, the Enlightenment, and the French Revolution.
From Thoreau's renowned Journal, a treasury of memorable, funny, and sharply observed accounts of his encounters with the wild and domestic animals of ConcordMany of the most vivid writings in the renowned Journal of Henry David Thoreau concern creatures he came upon when rambling the fields, forests, and wetlands of Concord and nearby communities.
The First Comprehensive Guide for Dealing with Dementia's Effect on Sex, Intimacy, and RelationshipsIt is common for a person with dementia to exhibit inappropriate and uncharacteristic sexual behavior, including promiscuity, verbal abuse, aggression, grabbing, exhibitionism, and jealous paranoia.
This volume covers a tumultuous period in Yeats's public and personal life, beginning with the acrimonious collapse of Maud Gonne's marriage to Major MacBride (who not only accused Yeats of being her lover but also threatened to shoot him).
