Diaries, letters and journals

Die Philologie ist allem Einzelnen, sei es noch so verquer, unschicklich oder ungeschickt, immer schon eng verbunden.

Among the hundreds captivated by the vision of quick riches in the gold fields of California was Elisha Douglass Perkins, a tall handsome youth from Marietta, Ohio, who has here left a remarkable first-hand account of the great trek westward in 1849.

Cincinnati native William Haines Lytle volunteered for service in the Mexican War in late 1847.

Uncertain of their son's fate, his family leaped into action.

Here for the first time are gathered together the extant letters of George Faulkner, Irish printer in eighteenth-century Dublin.

When the private papers of Millard Fillmore, thought to have been destroyed in 1889, were discovered they proved to include a large number of letters to Fillmore from Dorothea Dix, the renowned crusader for the humane treatment of the insane.

Uncertain of their son's fate, his family leaped into action.

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The novels of Janice Holt Giles grew in part from her marriage to Kentuckian Henry Giles.

While Father is Away reveals the intimate story of a British-American's role in the American Civil War.

Washington Allston (1779-1843), the first major American artist trained in Europe, produced important paintings, explored sculpture and architecture, and published poetry and art criticism.

One of the most important women of the 20th Century, Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962) was also one of its most prolific letter writers.

La obra nos lleva a una cautivante lectura de hechos ocurridos en la vida de la autora en aquel bello país.

"e;Here we are on the banks of the Nueces in the grand camp of the army of occupation.

"e;Quien tiene la llave a la puerta del cielo palestino parece ser la memoria.

Avec leur perspective aerienne unique et creatrice, les ecrivains-aviateurs offrent un regard lucide et libere des limites terrestres lorsqu'ils composent.

Das Buch dokumentiert die Geschichte eines enorm großen Leides, das ich im Jahr 2022 erlebt habe.

How would you communicate the realities of living in a warzone to someone who has never had this experience?

Mary Blachford Tighe was born in Dublin in 1772 and became a poet by the age of seventeen.

How would you communicate the realities of living in a warzone to someone who has never had this experience?

What does it mean to write "e;This is not a pipe"e; across a bluntly literal painting of a pipe?

What does it mean to write "e;This is not a pipe"e; across a bluntly literal painting of a pipe?

This title opens a new window into the life and thought of Alexis de Tocqueville, presenting him as not only a political thinker but also a person deeply shaped by the tensions and ideals of his time.

Aus dem Exil in den USA nach Europa zurückgekehrt, lebte Ré Soupault von 1948 bis 1958 in Basel, begann dort als Übersetzerin und Radio-Essayistin zu arbeiten und studierte vier Jahre lang bei Karl Jaspers.

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Dietrich Bonhoeffer ist heute noch einer der bekanntesten und prägendsten Theologen Deutschlands.

Politik und Literatur: Hans Wißkirchens große Biographie über Heinrich und Thomas Mann »Was reden doch die zwei unwissenden Magier da?

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.

Von Juli bis September 1920 begleitete der fünfundzwanzigjährige Isaak Babel die legendäre 1.

A fascinating collection of questions and answersabout courtship, marriage, love, and sexfrom a seventeenth-century periodical The Athenian Mercurya one-page, two-sided periodical published in 1690s Londonincluded the world's first personal advice column.

A fascinating collection of questions and answersabout courtship, marriage, love, and sexfrom a seventeenth-century periodical The Athenian Mercurya one-page, two-sided periodical published in 1690s Londonincluded the world's first personal advice column.

Die Entwicklung der Denkmotive des Heidegger-Schülers Karl Löwith über Friedrich Nietzsche und Jacob Burckhardt zu einer »Kunst der Resignation« auf Grundlage seiner Italien-BriefeKarl Löwith (1897–1973) war als deutsch-jüdischer Philosoph der erste Schüler Martin Heideggers.

These adventurous short stories are great for ages ten to one hundred.

The account of American soldier Ernest Focht, who spent 27 months as a POW during World War II.

Hay un frío del alma, una gélida sequedad del espíritu, que nos atosiga y deteriora.

Wie leicht - das in einem Kind zu sehen und zu sagen: "Ich sehe das Gute in dir!

Reveals the provocative and irreverent life of Dorman-Smith through his private letters and war diary, highlighting his military brilliance and conflicts with Churchill.

Diaries and letters from service personnel who were held captive throughout the Second World War survive in quite large numbers, but rarely are they so detailed as those of John Blomfield Dixon, whose home was in the Hertfordshire town of Ware.

The BBC and HBO series Gentleman Jack brought Anne Lister to international attention, awakening tremendous interest in her diaries, which run to nearly five million words and are partly written in her secret code.

Según el Observatorio de la Asociación Española Contra el Cáncer, el cáncer colorrectal representó casi el 15 % de todos los tumores diagnosticados en 2023, convirtiéndose en el más frecuente en España para ambos sexos.

Dieses Buch handelt von unserem Leben mit unserer schwerbehinderten Tochter.

This selection of Bowen's non-fictional writings includes her wonderfully funny, precise recollections of schooldays and childhood experiences, her brilliant evocations of London in wartime and of the Irish 'big house', and penetrating accounts of some of her most famous contemporaries.