Diaries, letters and journals

In 1910 Robert Falcon Scott and Roald Amundsen set sail for Antarctica, each from his own starting point, and the epic race for the South Pole was on.

The publishing house of John Murray was founded in Fleet Street in 1768 and remained a family business over seven generations.

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

Book by Samuel Johnson, published in 1775.

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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.

In sprachlich einzigartigen Betrachtungen schildert einer der großen Autoren der deutschsprachigen Moderne seine Wahlheimat.

In 1847, seventeen-year-old Miss Ellen Palmer had the world at her feet.

The first collection of letters in English by one of the great writers of the twentieth centuryThis is the first collection in English of the extraordinary letters of one of the great writers of the twentieth century.

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Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) was one of the writers that defined the course of twentieth-century poetry.

Kunerts Betrachtungen sind dem Heute ebenso verpflichtet wie der Ewigkeit.

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.

The bestselling social history of Victorian domestic life, told through the letters, diaries, journals and novels of 19th-century men and women.

Nurture self-expression and discovery with this beautiful guided journal, one day at a time.

Letters from 1878, when Darwin experimented with his son Francis on plant movements such as sleep and circumnutation.

For over a century, the Danish thinker Soren Kierkegaard (1813-55) has been at the center of a number of important discussions, concerning not only philosophy and theology, but also, more recently, fields such as social thought, psychology, and contemporary aesthetics, especially literary theory.

The last - and largest - of Cage''s most important formative exchanges of letters, discussing music criticism and questions of aesthetics.

Evidence-based interventions are increasingly being required by third-party payers and an evidence-based orientation has come to define ethical practice.

The classic story of the relationship between Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson, and a unique portrait of the Bloomsbury Group.

Traveling India in the Age of Gandhi is a study of "e;armchair"e; travel writers who journeyed to India during what has often been termed the "e;Age of Gandhi,"e; placed between 1914-1948.

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.

During the Italian Renaissance, dozens of early modern writers published collections of private correspondence, using them as vehicles for self-presentation, self-promotion, social critique, and religious dissent.

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

These thirty-four letters, written by members of the William Ellison family, comprise the only sustained correspondence by a free Afro-American family in the late antebellum South.

On 3 July 1930, a maid discovered the dead body of her employer on the floor of the sitting room in an upmarket apartment in Temple, London.

He had one of the more unglamorous jobs in the Second World War, but self-taught violinist George Warner's letters home from the North African and Italian campaigns - in which he served as a dispatch rider for the Royal Army Service Corps - provide an enthralling, humane account of Europe's darkest years.

Charles Henry Tweddell (1869-1921) was one of several thousand Canadian soldiers who fought with British forces in the Second Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902).

Margaret Stonborough, die 1882 geborene Schwester von Ludwig Wittgenstein, emigrierte gemeinsam mit ihrem Mann, dem Amerikaner Jerome Stonborough, und den beiden Söhnen am 14.

The sixth volume of the personal correspondences of British literary giant T.

This book contains the complete texts of all known correspondence between Samuel L.

The Journals of Sylvia Plath offers an intimate portrait of the author of the extraordinary poems for which Plath is so widely loved, but it is also characterized by a prose of vigorous immediacy which places it alongside The Bell Jar as a work of literature.

Die faszinierende Biographie einer klugen und tapferen Frau.

Diese Briefe spiegeln eine deutsche Familie Mitte des 19.

'Forget The Salt Path - this writer's introspective journey provides genuine food for thought.

A comprehensive account of the author's entire career through the lens of her recently published diariesWith the publication of Susan Sontag's diaries, the development of her career can now be evaluated in a more genetic sense, so that the origins of her ideas and plans for publication are made plain in the context of her role as a public intellectual, who is increasingly aware of her impact on her culture.

THE DIARIES OF A MILITARY WIFE DURING THE SECOND WORLD WARIn 1935, Evelyn Shillington started a diary, little knowing the years of turmoil it would cover, and how insightful her experiences as an army wife would be to the following generations.

It is in very truth a sunny, misty, cloudy, dazzling, howling, omniform Day.

Henry D.

This volume compiles and annotates for the first time the complete correspondence of the eighteenth-century British author Charlotte Lennox, best known for her novel The Female Quixote.

Although Ruth Pitter (1897-1992) is not well known, her credentials as a poet are extensive, and in England from the mid-1930s to the mid-1970s she maintained a modest yet loyal readership.

Hans von Bulow (1830-1894) is a towering figure of late 19th-century music.

In her third and final volume on Virginia Woolf’s diaries, Barbara Lounsberry reveals new insights about the courageous last years of the modernist writer’s life, from 1929 until Woolf’s suicide in 1941.