Diaries, letters and journals

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.

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.

'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.

'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.

Wenn aus einer langen Beziehung Literatur wirdEs ist der Wunsch von Franz Xaver Kroetz, noch einmal mit seiner Ex-Frau einige Wochen auf Teneriffa zu verbringen, wo sie lange zusammen gelebt haben.

Die Autorin beleuchtet neben Endlichers Biografie und seinen unterschiedlichen wissenschaftlichen Studien die Bedeutung seines Werkes auf den Gebieten der Botanik und der Sinologie.

Selected for Reading Well for Dementia 2024: endorsed by health experts, charities and people affected by dementia.

A timeless selection of some of Charles Bukowskis best unpublished and uncollected poems Charles Bukowski was a prolific writer who produced countless short stories, novels, and poems that have reached beyond their time and place to speak to generations of readers all over the world.

The Diary of Samuel Golfard and the Holocaust in Galicia examines the contents and context of a rare diary written by a Jewish man from Nazi-occupied Poland.

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JAY MCINERNEYJohn Cheever's letters offer a tantalising glimpse into the life of a writer.

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In May 1861, Virginian Thomas Henry Carter (18311908) raised an artillery battery and joined the Confederate army.

This collection, which will total between 300 and 500 letters from Americans of all walks of life, will become an important piece of history as it describes the variety of feelings and emotions of Americans about the election of Barack Obama as President of the United States.

*The fresh, frank and very funny new novel from Dawn O'Porter - CAT LADY - is available to buy now*Dawn O'Porter has been thinking a lot about life.

First published in 1995.

THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER, ALSO AVAILABLE FOR YOUNG READERS AS FRITZ AND KURTDAILY MAIL & SUNDAY EXPRESS BOOKS OF THE YEARThe inspiring true story of a father and son's fight to stay together and survive the Holocaust, for anyone captivated by The Cut Out Girl and The Tattooist of Auschwitz'A powerful and often uncomfortable true story that deserves to be read and remembered.

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.

In the summer of 1936, Ezra Pound agreed to take on the role of European Correspondent for a newly launched travel journal entitled Globe: The International Magazine.

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.

This final compilation from James Lees-Milne's celebrated diaries covers the last fourteen years of his life, when he was living on the Duke of Beaufort's Badminton estate.

'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.

Benedictine nun, poet and musician, Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179) was one of the most remarkable figures of the Middle Ages.

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

*A Telegraph History Book of the Year, 2023*'An astonishing achievement' ANTONY BEEVOR A remarkably moving and humane book WILLIAM BOYDAn intimate history of the most important month of the Second World War as experienced by those who lived through it, completely based on their diaries, letters and memoirs.

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.

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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.