Diaries, letters and journals

First published in 1995.

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Letters from 1879, when Darwin researched and published a biography of his grandfather Erasmus Darwin.

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.

Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) was the author of nearly fifty books and numerous essays, best known for his dystopian novel Brave New World.

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive.

Hundreds of novels have been written about young men coming of age in war.

Karl August Varnhagens bisher unveröffentlichtes ReisejournalEin denkwürdiges Zeugnis der romantischen Kunstbegeisterung und politischen Opposition gegen die napoleonische Besatzungspolitik - aber auch der Liebessehnsucht eines jungen Mannes, der sich zwischen zwei Frauen lange nicht zu entscheiden vermochte.

This monumental collection of correspondence between Gertrude Stein and critic, novelist, and photographer Carl Van Vechten provides crucial insight into Stein's life, art, and artistic milieu as well as Van Vechten's support of major cultural projects, such as the Harlem Renaissance.

"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.

Die Korrespondenz von Karl Kraus mit seinem Drucker und Verleger - ein Dokument akribischer Arbeit am Text.

This is the OCR-endorsed edition covering the Latin A-Level (Group 2) prescription of Pliny, Letters 1.

'Dear Mama, I am having a lovely time here.

The 1930s marked a turning point for the world.

A Quaker Colonel, His Fiancee, and Their Connections: Selected Civil War Correspondence offers a Northern counterpart to the great collection of Southern family letters published in The Children of Pride.

50 letters from high-profile business leaders and thinkers to their CEO offering advice, insight and guidance.

'People are my landscape', Isaiah Berlin liked to say, and nowhere is the truth of this observation more evident than in his letters.

A collection of essays on writers and writing by the Booker-shortlisted novelist and critic.

This fullyupdated edition of James Schuylers letters to three dozen intimates, publishedon the 100th anniversary of the writers birth, offers unparalleled insightsinto the lives, friendships, and sensibilities that sprang from the influentialNew York School.

During his early years, Franz Liszt worked as a traveling piano virtuoso, his adventures highlighted by his entree into the literary world as a correspondent for the most popular French journals of his time.

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.

Gabrielle Roy was one of the most prominent Canadian authors of the twentieth century.

Alltag, Karriere, Familie, Freundschaften, Versicherungen und das vorab bezahlte Sockenabo – all das lässt der Schweizer Claudio Sieber zurück, als er sein Leben als Vagabund beginnt.

Margot Asquith was the wife of Herbert Henry Asquith, the Liberal Prime Minister who led Britain into war in August 1914.

When I had a Little Sister by Catherine Simpson is a searingly honest and heartbreaking account of growing up in a farming family, and of Catherine's search for understanding into what led her younger sister to kill herself at 46.

Jane Austen is one of England's greatest and best-loved novelists, whose works are still widely read and enjoyed nearly two hundred years after her death.

Over a period of forty years, from 1947 to 1986, Margaret Laurence and Adele Wiseman wrote to each other constantly.

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.

Acclaimed playwright Terrence McNally's works are characterized by such diversity that critics have sometimes had difficulty identifying the pattern in his carpet.

SINCE its first appearance in three volumes (1938-40) Kilvert's Diary has become established as a minor classic.

This 2007 book explores the work of women writers in the early modern British Atlantic world.

When supplies ran out, the return trek across the Barrens became one of the most tragic incidents in the history of Arctic exploration.

On September 7, 1864, William Whitlock, aged thirty-five, left his wife and four children in Allegany, New York, to join the Union army in battle.

Just after midnight on 22 April 1916 on the Western Front, a sergeant from the 15th (1st London) Royal Welsh Fusiliers came sliding and stumbling along the dark, mud-filled trench towards the four men, huddled together and soaked-through, in the shallow dugout.

This fifth volume of the collected letters of poet, playwright, essayist, and literary critic Thomas Stearns Eliot covers the years 1930 through 1931.

This antiquarian volume contains Karel Capek's "e;Letters From Holland"e;.

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.

Sir Joseph Banks was man of science, of affairs, and of letters.

Christopher Columbus authored over a hundred documents, many of them letters giving testimony on the Discovery to Isabela and Ferdinand.

This volume provides a first-hand survey of the arts and literature during a crucial period in modern culture, 1915-1924.

America is at a crossroads.

Soul Mates of the Lost Generation recovers for contemporary readers one of the last great collections of letters of the Jazz Age.

This volume contains letters from the year in which Darwin worked on insectivorous plants and published the second edition of Descent of Man.