Diaries, letters and journals

Before William Stanley Lambert became a cadet in 1883, he had already sailed 44,890 miles round the world in a childhood voyage that took him two years to complete.

The Karamazov Correspondence: Letters of Vladimir S.

Using unpublished diaries, Jim Perrin, the acclaimed author of The Villain and Menlove, tells the story of the greatest exploring partnership in British history.

Charles Brockden Brown (1771-1810) is a key writer of the revolutionary era and U.

Philip Webb was a British architect known as a founder of the Arts and Crafts movement and also a key member of the Pre-Raphaelite circle.

'Your Majesty may find it extraordinary that I should answer with a shipment of fruit your letter of 6 August, in which you inform me that you are sending the plan for a treaty, and that of the 8 September, in which you are so good as to share with me equally important intelligence.

First published in Irish in 1937, this collection of journal and diary entries is a compelling first-hand account of Douglas Hyde's eight-month fundraising odyssey through the United States from 1905 to 1906.

Die Briefe Franz Kafkas an seine Verlobte Felice Bauer zählen zu den persönlichsten Dokumenten dieses Autors.

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.

This book breaks new ground in our understanding of a pivotal period in the history of American foreign policy, the early Cold War, and the struggle for dominance in China between the Nationalists and Communists.

As it happens with other early-Modern corpora, the descriptive texts from 16th-century encounters of the Portuguese colonizers in Brazil are well-known for their strangeness.

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.

Ernesto Guevaras journal of his second trip through Latin America, revealing the emergence of a revolutionary icon now called Che.

In 1894, Eleanor L.

Tagebücher spielen als Quelle von individueller Diktaturerfahrung eine wichtige Rolle, auch in Bezug auf die nationalsozialistische "Volksgemeinschaft".

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.

Despairing of his volatile, unstable wife, T.

The story of a family in modern China with a history of deceit, betrayal and political intrigue, and the communist party's long shadow over them, from the Cultural Revolution to today.

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

Die Ukraine im Umbruch: Andrej Kurkow erzählt aus dem Herzen der RevolutionAuf den Majdan!

Die deutsche Jüdin und Komintern-Agentin Olga Benario wurde Ende 1936, nachdem sie in Brasilien an einem misslungenen Aufstand beteiligt gewesen war, hochschwanger an Nazideutschland ausgeliefert.

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.

Eine reiche Quelle des literarischen Lebens im 19.

Neuer Blickwinkel auf die deutsch-österreichische MusikgeschichteSie gehören zu den zentralen Figuren des österreichischen Theaterbetriebs: der Komponist Richard Strauss, der Schriftsteller Hugo von Hofmannsthal und Alfred Roller, Bühnenbildner unter Gustav Mahler.

This vintage book contains a collection of letters written by an American farmer on Nantucket island, Massachusetts in the late eighteenth century.

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.

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).

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

As a British Intelligence Officer during World War II, Hugh Trevor-Roper was expressly forbidden from keeping a diary due to the sensitive and confidential nature of his work.

A uniquely fascinating and moving account of a German-Jewish family under the Third Reich and Holocaust.

Between March 1863 and July 1865, Confederate newlyweds Brigadier General Gabriel C.

Best remembered for his operas and his War Requiem, Benjamin Britten's radical politics and his sexuality have also ensured that he remains a controversial public figure.

"e;What this charming, moving and fascinating collection proves is that the [letter] form itself - a scribbled note, a declaration of love, an outpouring of passion, a bitter word - has always been with us.

The 334 letters in this volume cover the period from Disraeli's establishment in the Tory camp under the patronage of Lord Lyndhurst to his election to parliament in 1837.

This edited collection of letters by William Empson (1906-1984), one of the foremost writers and literary critics of the twentieth century, ranges across the entirety of his career.

Wie die Geschichte ausgeht, weiß zum Glück keiner.

This book outlines the World War II experiences of Carl E.

Eine reiche Quelle des literarischen Lebens im 19.

Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce was born in Meigs County, Ohio, United States in 1842.

East Sandling Camp.

Knigge zeigt sich in seiner Korrespondenz von unterschiedlichsten Seiten: engagiert und distanziert, diskussionsfreudig und widersprüchlich, verärgert und kämpferisch, hilfsbereit und gefühlvoll.

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 rogue, a megalomaniac, a plodder, and a depressive: the men whose previously unpublished diaries are collected in this volume were four very different characters.

Stete Sorgen um die Familie prägen für Hedwig Pringsheim die Jahre vor dem Ersten Weltkrieg und in den Kriegsjahren.