Very early in her career Sylvia Townsend Warner won recognition of a discerning group of writers and readers on both sides of rare imagination and originality increased with each new publication.
Italian poet, novelist, literary critic and translator Cesare Pavese (1908-1950) is generally recognized as one of the most important writers of his period.
Lifelong luddite Treena Orchard was a newly sober woman coming off a much-needed break from relationships, reluctantly taking the digital plunge by downloading a dating app.
This collection of correspondence between Clemens and Rogers may be thought of as a continuation of Mark Twains Letters to His Publishers, 1867-1894, edited by Hamlin Hill.
September 1914, and the whole of Europe was at war following the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his beloved wife Sophie by Gavrilo Princip in Sarajevo on 28th June 1914.
The definitive collection of works on a subject that inspired and haunted Charles Bukowski for his entire life: alcohol Charles Bukowski turns to the bottle in this revelatory collection of poetry and prose that includes some of the writers best and most lasting work.
IN DECEMBER 1940, as the coldest winter in living memory fastened its grip on war-torn France, the Nazi conquerors rounded up nearly 5,000 people, mostly women and children, and sent them to an internment camp.
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Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564) is universally celebrated as one of the greatest artists of all time, yet iconic Renaissance creator was also a prolific and gifted poet.
The greatest orator in Roman history, Marcus Tullius Cicero remained one of the republic's chief supporters throughout his life, guided by profound political beliefs that illuminated his correspondence with both close friends and powerful aristocrats.
Benjamin Disraeli (1804-81) was one of the most important figures in nineteenth-century Europe, spending three decades in British government and twice serving as prime minister.
Zwiegespräche im Schatten der WeltgeschichteDie Korrespondenz der Meisterschülerin mit dem Erzieher – »der einzige, den ich je habe anerkennen können« – ist das große Zeugnis einer Seelenverwandschaft.
The perfect gift for Valentine s Day'And when Love speaks, the voice of all the godsMakes heaven drowsy with harmony'Love's Labour's Lost, William ShakespeareWhen Love Speaks brings together the greatest writing on love and commitment - from Donne to Cole Porter, Sappho to P.
_______________'An absorbing volume' - The Spectator_______________First published in 1989, A Particular Friendship is a collection of letters following Dirk Bogarde's first four memoirs.
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.
Mit der kommentierten Auswahl der Briefe und Notizen von Carl Dahlhaus (1928–1989) wird die Korrespondenz eines der bedeutendsten Musikwissenschaftler des 20.
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.
The irresistible, candid diaries of Richard Burton, published in their entirety for the first time Irresistibly magnetic on stage, mesmerizing in movies, seven times an Academy Award nominee, Richard Burton rose from humble beginnings in Wales to become Hollywood's most highly paid actor and one of England's most admired Shakespearean performers.
Why a monumental diary by an aunt and niece who published poetry together as ';Michael Field'and who were partners and lovers for decadesis one of the great unknown works of late-Victorian and early modernist literatureMichael Field, the renowned late-Victorian poet, was well known to be the pseudonym of Katharine Bradley (18461914) and her niece, Edith Cooper (18621913).
Until his death in 1877, Brigham Young guided the religious, economic, and political life of the Mormon community, whose settlements spread throughout the West and provoked a profound political, legal, and even military confrontation with the American nation.
Redrawing established boundaries between genres, Podnieks builds a broad critical and theoretical range on which she maps the diary as an aesthetic work, showing how diaries inscribe the aesthetics of literary modernisms.
The first book-length selection from the extraordinary unpublished diary of the late-Victorian writer "e;Michael Field"e;-the pen name of two female coauthors and romantic partnersMichael Field was known to late-Victorian readers as a superb poet and playwright-until Robert Browning let slip Field's secret identity: in fact, "e;Michael Field"e; was a pseudonym for Katharine Bradley (1846-1914) and Edith Cooper (1862-1913), who were lovers, a devoted couple, and aunt and niece.
Examining the diary as a particular form of expression, Holding On and Holding Out provides unique insight into the experiences of Jews in France during the Second World War.
These letters to (and from) Finlay's friend, the English poet and scholar, Stephen Bann, centre on the initial development of the garden at Stonypath, near Edinburgh, later to become the world renowned 'Little Sparta'.
For years, those who attempted to understand the devastation of World War I looked to the collections of diplomatic documents, the stirring speeches, and the partisan memoirs of the leading participants.
This compelling history is drawn from the papers of the Crouse-Eikle family, discovered in their ancestral home in Crousetown on Nova Scotia’s South Shore.
In October 1949 the poet William Carlos Williams received a letter from a young man from India who was studying engineering at Stanford University but wanted to write poetry.
