Diaries, letters and journals

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Langston Hughes, one of Americas greatest writers, was an innovator of jazz poetry and a leader of the Harlem Renaissance whose poems and plays resonate widely today.

Ein packender deutsch-deutscher Briefroman aus den Zeiten des Kalten Krieges»Am liebsten tät ich da den großen Scheißegesang anstimmen«, reagiert Lilo Fromm auf Bobrowskis Zorn: An seinem Arbeitsplatz im Ost-Berliner Union-Verlag, direkt an der »Mauer«, darf er keine Besucher mehr empfangen.

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Hans von Bulow (1830-1894) is a towering figure of late 19th-century music.

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.

'Enthralling and gloriously honest' SUNDAY TIMES'These letters are a treat .

The Napier family are famous for their military exploits in the Peninsular War.

Entdecke die fesselnde Geschichte einer digitalen Nomadin auf der Suche nach Selbstbestimmung, Freiheit und persönlichem Wachstum.

Before they were both internationally renowned philosophers, Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy and Franz Rosenzweig were young German soldiers fighting in World War I corresponding by letter and forming the foundation of their deep intellectual friendship.

Morris Graves is a major American painter with roots in the Pacific Northwest.

Personal letters reveal the quandary of a prominent German physicist during the Nazi years and the strength he shared with his loving wife Nobel Prize–winning physicist Werner Heisenberg lived far from his wife, Elisabeth, during most of the Second World War.

A poignant collection of letters written by the Latvian poet, novelist, and newspaper editor Arsenii Formakov while interned in Soviet labor camps Emily Johnson has translated and edited a fascinating collection of letters written by Arsenii Formakov, a Latvian Russian poet, novelist, and journalist, during two terms in Soviet labor camps, 1940 to 1947 in Kraslag and 1949 to 1955 in Kamyshlag and Ozerlag.

A penetrating account of the dynamics of World War II’s Grand Alliance through the messages exchanged by the "Big Three" Stalin exchanged more than six hundred messages with Allied leaders Churchill and Roosevelt during the Second World War.

This fascinating collection of letters, notes, and miscellanea from the archives of the Tchaikovsky State House-Museum sheds new light on the world of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.

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One of the Lost Generation modernists who gathered in 1920s Paris, Kay Boyle published more than forty books, including fifteen novels, eleven collections of short fiction, eight volumes of poetry, three children's books, and various essays and translations.

This delightful book of writer-to-writer correspondence joins a full shelf of volumes in the genre, yet it is perhaps the first set of such letters everA transacted via theA Internet.

This is the first book devoted to the correspondence of composer Aaron Copland, covering his life from age eight to eighty-seven.

In 1925, the 22-year-old Kenneth Clark (1903-1983) and the legendary art critic and historian Bernard Berenson (1865-1959) met in Italy.

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.

The life of Nikos Kazantzakis-the author of Zorba the Greek and The Last Temptation of Christ-was as colorful and eventful as his fiction.

Modesty, humor, compassion, and wisdom are the traits most evident in this illuminating selection of personal papers from the Albert Einstein Archives.

Within the vast and varied body of chasidic literature, rarely does one find a chasidic rebbe writing about himself.

Philosopher, author, and lecturer Alan Watts (19151973) popularized Zen Buddhism and other Eastern philosophies for the counterculture of the 1960s.

During the 1950s and '60s, writers E.

The superb, bestselling diaries of Victor Klemperer, a Jew in Dresden who survived the war - hailed as one of the 20th century's most important chronicles.

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

For many of us DH Lawrence was a schoolboy hero.

Frances Burney was born on June 13th, 1752 in Lynn Regis (now King's Lynn).

Frances Burney was born on June 13th, 1752 in Lynn Regis (now King's Lynn).

Booker Taliaferro Washington was born, it is thought, in 1856.

'A unique and thrilling insight into the brilliant mind of Anne Lister' Sally Wainwright, creator of Gentleman JackFemale Fortune is the book which inspired Sally Wainwright to write Gentleman Jack, now a major drama series for the BBC and HBO.

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"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.

De los mas de 400 jesuitas expulsados de la provincia del Paraguay por la Corona espanola en 1767, Diego Leon de Villafane fue el unico que logro volver al Rio de la Plata y establecerse en su ciudad natal por mas de treinta anos hasta su muerte, en 1830.

Cané fue un claro exponente de la llamada Generación del 80.

This captivating book is a story of the friendship between a genius physicist Wolfgang Pauli and Charlotte Houtermans whose career in physics was not as glamorous.

"e;These letters are in no sense a history-except that they contain the truth.

A caballo entre la sentencia epigramática, el ensayo breve, el minicuento y el aforismo, los textos que conforman este libro abordan las más disímiles materias de la cotidianidad desde una perspectiva que precipita hondas y sagaces reflexiones sobre el país y sus intelectuales, pero también –y he aquí su resonancia– sobre el mundo, los libros, la cultura popular, esas preciadas cosas de la vida que suelen pasar desapercibidas al ojo ablandado por la rutina y la frivolidad.

ENCOUNTERS IN A NOISY WORLD - The finitude of eternityIf the view of things is different from the hitherto accustomed one, something is formed, which does that service to the well-worn life, the appearance of which does not become aware of its distinctness to everyone.

This book covers mainly letters from his mother to her son, her only child, who lived some thousands of miles apart for many years.

'Sharp as a skewer about the devices and desires in many modern marriages.

En un viaje de seis meses junto a su familia, David Rodríguez nos pasea por sus historias, transitando por algunos de los lugares y personajes más cautivadores de América, Oceanía, Asia y África.

"e;Livy darling, it was flattering, at the Lord Mayor's dinner, tonight, to have the nation's honored favorite, the Lord High Chancellor of England, in his vast wig & gown, with a splendid, sword-bearing lackey, following him & holding up his train, walk me arm-in-arm through the brilliant assemblage, & welcome me with all the enthusiasm of a girl, & tell me that when affairs of state oppress him & he can't sleep, he always has my books at hand & forgets his perplexities in reading them!

'Her voice is absolutely, beguilingly conversational .

One of the key figures in Christian history, St.

Este libro de memorias quiere ser el testimonio vital de un individuo peludo y entrañable que encontró su lugar en el mundo cuando todo le auguraba un destino incierto y poco favorable.