Though her life was largely circumscribed by domesticity and poverty both in England and in Canada, Catharine Parr Traill’s interests, experiences, and contacts were broad and various.
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 moving and unusual story of a British engineer who becomes caught up in the horrifying events of the First World War vividly illuminates life - and death - on the Mesopotamian Front.
An indelible portrait of one of the most famous and beloved authors in the canon of American literature a collection of letters between Harper Lee and one of her closest friends that reveals the famously private writer as never before, in her own words.
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Im Sommer 1789 gab Adolph Freiherr Knigge, Verfasser des berühmten "Umgangs mit Menschen", seine vierzehnjährige Tochter Philippine (1775-1841) nach Detmold in Pension.
This astonishing memoir of a childhood lived in extreme poverty in Latin America was hailed as an instant classic when first published in Colombia in 2012, nine years after the death of its author, who was encouraged in her writing by Gabriel Garc a M rquez.
The BBC and HBO series Gentleman Jack brought Anne Lister to international attention, awakening tremendous interest in her diaries, which run to nearly five million words and are partly written in her secret code.
Funny, honest and full of subtle magic, this is a rare and revealing portrait of 18th century Europe at a time when Marie Antoinette had just become queen of all France, the Grand Tour was in its infancy and Cannes was a quiet fishing village.
Der dramatische Briefwechsel, vonseiten der Bachmann- wie der Frisch-Forschung kenntnisreich kommentiert, zeichnet ein neues, überraschendes Bild der Beziehung und stellt tradierte Bewertungen und Schuldzuweisungen in Frage.
In March of 1861 Texas seceded from the Union, and the Love brothers of Limestone CountyCyrus, Samuel, James, and Johnenlisted to fight for the Confederate cause.
Neue, unbekannte Einblicke in Konrad Adenauers Politik in der Endphase als Kanzler und CDU-Parteivorsitzender gibt das erst 2015 entdeckte Tagebuch des Sohnes Paul Adenauer.
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.
During a career lasting nearly half a century, Meister Frantz Schmidt (1554-1634) personally put to death 392 individuals and tortured, flogged, or disfigured hundreds more.
In March of 1861 Texas seceded from the Union, and the Love brothers of Limestone CountyCyrus, Samuel, James, and Johnenlisted to fight for the Confederate cause.
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.
THE DIARIES OF A MILITARY WIFE DURING THE SECOND WORLD WARIn 1935, Evelyn Shillington started a diary, little knowing the years of turmoil it would cover, and how insightful her experiences as an army wife would be to the following generations.
Der New Yorker Maler Duncan Hannah hat die siebziger Jahre über Tagebuch geführt – ein Glücksfall, eine literarische Entdeckung: «Dive» liest sich wie der letzte große Beatroman.
Philip Larkin met Monica Jones at University College Leicester in autumn 1946, when they were both twenty-four; he was the newly-appointed assistant librarian and she was an English lecturer.
