Diaries, letters and journals

Published to coincide with the anniversary of the First World War, this edition, superbly illustrated with contemporary photographs and colour maps, gives readers an insight into all aspects of the First World War, from the trenches to the Eastern Front, as well as the Mediterranean conflict.

PROSE Award for Excellence in Media and Cultural Studies Finalist 2020Luis Bunuel: A Life in Letters provides access for the first time to an annotated English-language version of around 750 of the most important and most widely relevant of these letters.

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

The second volume of the remarkable, Sunday Times bestselling diaries of Chips Channon.

Elisabetta Caminer Turra (1751-96) was one of the most prominent women in eighteenth-century Italy and a central figure in the international "e;Republic of Letters.

Essays on the apparitional, the incomprehensible, and the paranormal in conversation with art, travel, and storytelling The ghosts-literal and figurative-that drive our deepest impulses, disturb our most precious memories, and haunt the passages of our daily lives are present in this collection of sublime meditations on the unbelievable, the coincidental, and the apparitional.

Nott, who published Jefferson and/or Mussolini (1935), was an interested and encouraging interlocutor for a poet seeking re-invention as an economist and political commentator - someone who sustained Pound as he swam against the tide.

The book comprises a selection of some 750 letters of the composer, Ralph Vaughan Williams, selected from an extant corpus of about 3,300.

The essential companion to the Sunday Times bestselling Jog On - a funny, practical guide to managing your mental health through exercise.

A gift that will bring cries of delighted recognition from anyone who has ever owned a dog and, dare one say it, charm the pants off even those who strongly prefer cats.

Tendai Rinos Mwanaka wrote letters to Robert Mugabe, Constantine Chiwenga, Morgan Tsvangirai, The Zimbabweans, Emerson Mnangagwa, Nelson Chamisa, The Police, and in between infused the letters with deeply literary and psychoanalytic essays on the motivations of political players in Zimbabwe.

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.

'We recognised the place from the newsreels.

A collection of Sir Walter Scott's letters to his son-in-law, publisher J.

The correspondence of Katherine Mansfield and John Middleton Murry is a story in its own right, as compelling and poignant as any that Mansfield herself invented.

As he traveled across Germany and the Netherlands and sailed on Dutch and Brandenburg slave ships to the Caribbean and Africa from 1682 to 1696, the young German barber-surgeon Johann Peter Oettinger (1666-1746) recorded his experiences in a detailed journal, discovered by Roberto Zaugg and Craig Koslofsky in a Berlin archive.

"Ein bemerkenswertes Buch von literarischer Kraft.

The Diary of a Civil War Marine: Private Josiah Gregg is a rare firsthand account of a United States Marine during the Civil War, written within hours of the events described.

»Mein Ururopa Arva Fargo war zur Goldsuche nach Alaska abgehauen.

Schreib ohne Furcht und viel - Die poetische Liebesgeschichte von Albert Camus und Maria Casarès.

In the final volume of the Collected Works of A.

Winner of the National Outdoor Book Award.

The tragic fate of the lost Franklin expedition (1845-48) is a well-known part of exploration history, but there has always been a gap in the story - a personal account that begs to be told.

Diese erstmals veröffentlichten Moskauer Archivfunde eröffnen eine neue Perspektive auf die Geschichte des deutschsprachigen Literaturexils in der Sowjetunion.

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Die einzige lebensumspannende und nahezu vollständig überlieferte Korrespondenz von Arno Holz - erstmalig veröffentlicht.

Impoverished young Americans had no greater champion during the Depression than Eleanor Roosevelt.

Robert Louis Stevenson is the author of many classic novels.

Gideon Welles's 1861 appointment as secretary of the navy placed him at the hub of Union planning for the Civil War and in the midst of the powerful personalities vying for influence in Abraham Lincoln's cabinet.

Ein literaturwissenschaftlicher Sammelband zu Korrespondenznetzwerken in der deutschsprachigen und französischsprachigen Literatur des 20.

GUARDIAN BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2014No marriage of a major twentieth-century writer lasted longer than Vladimir Nabokov's.

“Brackett’s diaries read like a funnier, better-paced version of Barton Fink.

The writing of letters often evokes associations of a single author and a single addressee, who share in the exchange of intimate thoughts across distances of space and time.

The honest, compassionate and vital guide to getting older, from dementia to finances, medication to care homes'The most important book about the second half of your life you'll ever read.

'A love story told in exquisitely poetic letters' DAILY MAIL'A powerful and tender tale of love and war.

Der Briefwechsel zwischen Stefan George und Ernst Morwitz erschließt neue Facetten des Dichters und seines Kreises.

This edited collection of Civil War correspondence between Col.

Volume One of the Letters of T.

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.

One morning in March 2021 with the second wave of infections ripping through Ireland where he was newly resident, Mark Lanegan woke up breathless, fatigued beyond belief, his body burdened with a gigantic dose of Covid-19.

Prison Pens presents the memoir of a captured Confederate soldier in northern Virginia and the letters he exchanged with his fiancee during the Civil War.

Thought-provoking and lyrical, The Notebook records the last year in the life of Jos, Saramago.