The extraordinary life story of the celebrated artist and writer, as told through four decades of intimate letters to her beloved motherBarbara Chase-Riboud has led a remarkable life.
This volume is the first of three in a complete critical edition of the letters of Claude-Adrien Helvétius (1715-71) and his wife, née Anne Catherine de Liginville (1722-1800).
In these seventeen essays (and one short story) the 2011 Man Booker Prize winner examines British, French and American writers who have meant most to him, as well as the cross-currents and overlappings of their different cultures.
This volume is the first study of the diary in French writing across the twentieth century, as a genre which includes both fictional and non-fictional works.
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Der zweite Band der »Sämtlichen Werke« enthält mit dem ersten Teil der »Strahlungen« Jüngers Tagebuch aus den Jahren 1939 bis 1943: die »Gärten und Straßen«, »Das erste Pariser Tagebuch« sowie die »Kaukasischen Aufzeichnungen«.
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.
Edmund Spenser, Selected Letters and Other Papers provides the first published text of the diplomatic and personal papers written, copied, and handled by Spenser during his years of secretarial service and colonial planting in Ireland, 1580-1589.
Love, Loosha ist eine außergewöhnliche Sammlung von Briefen zwischen der Schriftstellerin Lucia Berlin und dem Dichter und Broadway-Texter Kenward Elmslie.
Offers significant insight into the life, heart, mind, and attitudes of an intelligent, educated, young mid-19th-century white Southerner This book contains the letters of George Knox Miller who served as a line officer in the Confederate cavalry and participated in almost all of the major campaigns of the Army of Tennessee.
This study explores the surprising relationship between Proust's creative genius, his financial extravagance, and the steady hand that kept him afloat.
Die hier als Edition vorgelegten Briefe Ella Wengers offenbaren praktisch alle Facetten, die das Leben jüdischer Bürger:innen in Wien unter den Bedingungen des Nationalsozialismus in den Jahren zwischen Anschluss (1938) und dem Beginn der 'Endlösung' 1942 ausgemacht haben: Ausgrenzung und Drangsalierung, Diskriminierung und Entrechtung, den Verlust von Arbeit, Eigentum und Wohnung, das Zusammendrängen auf immer weniger Wohnraum, Verzweiflung und Suizid, schließlich die Deportationen; aber auch die Bemühungen um Selbstbehauptung und Flucht.
This collection brings together the short fictions published in Peter Motteux's The Gentleman's Journal, one of the main Restoration periodicals running from 1692 to 1694.
_______________'An absorbing volume' - The Spectator_______________First published in 1989, A Particular Friendship is a collection of letters following Dirk Bogarde's first four memoirs.
This book, comprising approximately 300 letters, provides access to the voice of Robert Sobukwe via the single most poignant resource of Sobukwe's voice that exists: his prison letters.
Shortly after the third edition of Leaves of Grass was published, in 1860, Walt Whitman seemed to drop off the literary map, not to emerge again until his brother George was wounded at Fredericksburg two and a half years later.
Letters to Franca offers an extensive selection from the 500 or so extraordinary letters Louis Althusser addressed to Franca Madonia between 1961 and 1972, the most productive period in Althusser's life and the time when his most characteristic works were being elaborated and first received.
Screams from the Balcony is a collection of letters chronicling Charles Bukowski's life as he tries to get published and work at a postal office, all while drinking and gambling.
#1New York TimesBestsellerA touching and intimate correspondence between Anderson Cooper and his mother, Gloria Vanderbilt, offering timeless wisdom and a revealing glimpse into their livesThe Rainbow Comes and Goes is a charming, intimate and fascinating collection of correspondence between broadcaster and #1 New York Times bestselling author Anderson Cooper and his mother, the celebrated Gloria Vanderbilt.
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.
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Maud Berridge (1845 1907) was the wife of a Master Mariner, and she travelled with him on at least five occasions (1869, 1880, 1882, 1883, 1886), sailing to Melbourne with emigrants and cargo.
In 2012, The Recovery Letters was launched to host a series of letters online written by people recovering from depression, addressed to those currently affected by a mental health condition.