Diaries, letters and journals

This early work by Edward Streeter was originally published in 1918 and we are now republishing it as part of our WWI Centenary Series.

In his diary, Antera Duke (ca.

One Bold Deed of Open Treason describes the astonishing journey by Roger Casement to Germany in 1914, via New York and Norway.

Sarah Beth Childers grew up listening to stories.

'The best of England' The New Statesman'A powerful open letter about racism' The Sun'I just want equality, equality for all of us.

The diary kept by Ronald Edward Tritton is a revealing and often frank record of the internal conflicts at the Public Relations Department of the War Office and the Ministry of Information during the Second World War.

The Wisdom of John Muir marries the best aspects of a Muir anthology with the best aspects of a Muir biography.

First published in 1911, this vintage book contains extracts from the diary of John William Polidori, and chiefly those parts relating to his relationships with Byron, Shelley, and others of the Romantic movement.

Presented together now for the first time, Laurens van der Post's collected writings will reveal as never before the fullness of his perceptive, wise and remarkably consistent vision.

Munich 1919 is a vivid portrayal of the chaos that followed World War I and the collapse of the Munich Council Republic by one of the most perceptive chroniclers of German history.

Jacques Rossi is one of Stalin's most well-known victims.

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.

Eliot is called upon to become the completely public man.

At the long-term care facility where Robert Rebeins father lands after a horrific car crash, a shadow box hangs next to each room, its contents suggesting something of the occupants life.

These diaries and family letters reveals the experiences of Senator Benjamin Tillman's brother as a Confederate captain during and after the Civil War.

The first complete and unexpurgated edition of the war diaries of Field Marshall Lord Alanbrooke - the most important and the most controversial military diaries of the modern era.

"e;Who do you think you are kidding Mr Hitler?

Ein Roman aus dem Nachlass des großen Roberto Bolaño!

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

In 1998, Andrew Carroll founded the Legacy Project, with the goal of remembering Americans who have served their nation and preserving their letters for posterity.

These volumes of Mill's letters have been awaited eagerly by all scholars in the field of nineteenth-century studies.

Hansjörg Schneider geht die vertrauten Wege in Basel, zum Kannenfeldpark, zum Petersplatz und wieder zurück.

This is the first of two volumes of Admiral Lord Rodney's correspondence edited by Professor David SyrettThis is the first of two volumes of Admiral Lord Rodney's correspondence edited by Professor David Syrett, Distinguished Professor of History at Queen's College, City University of New York, and published after his untimely death in 2004.

A revelatory collection of letters written by the author of The Broken Road.

Letters from the year in which Darwin published Expression of the Emotions, on human and animal expression.

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During the eighties, while working on a novel which had become 'stuck', Anthony Powell, one of the greatest of twentieth-century Enlgish novelists, began writing a journal.

Robert Lowell once remarked in a letter to Elizabeth Bishop that "e;you ha[ve] always been my favorite poet and favorite friend.

Translated into English for the first time, the letters collected here bring to life one of the greatest thinkers of the twentieth century, Ludwig Wittgenstein.

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

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.

On the field or off, Eric 'The King' Cantona has always been known as an artist.

The one hundred letters brought together for this book illustrate the range of Hugh Trevor-Roper's life and preoccupations: as an historian, a controversialist, a public intellectual, an adept in academic intrigues, a lover of literature, a traveller, a countryman.

Edited by Abel Debritto, the definitive collection of poems from an influential writer whose transgressive legacy and raw, funny, and acutely observant writing has left an enduring mark on modern culture.

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

Luise Rinser und Karl Rahner haben 22 Jahre lang Briefe ausgetauscht, die ein Zeugnis ihrer innigen Freundschaft sind, ihres intensiven Gedankenaustausches und ihrer Treue zum einmal gewählten Lebensweg.

IB was one of the great affirmers of our time.

The illuminating letters of the National Book Award winning poet Robert Bly and the Nobel Prize winning poet Tomas TranstromerOne day in spring 1964, the young American poet Robert Bly left his rural farmhouse and drove 150 miles to the University of Minnesota library in Minneapolis to obtain the latest book by the young Swedish poet Tomas Transtromer.

This book sprang from three handwritten lines by Ivan Bunin, Russia's first winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Sigmund Freuds Briefe an seinen nahen Freund Wilhelm Fließ, den Berliner Hals-Nasen-Ohrenarzt und Biologen, transkribiert von Gerhard Fichtner und hier ohne Kürzung veröffentlicht, sind das bewegende tagebuchartige Protokoll der tiefen wissenschaftlichen und persönlichen Krise, aus der Freud, von der akademischen Welt isoliert, in den neunziger Jahren des vorletzten Jahrhunderts das Paradigma der Psychoanalyse entwickelte.

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Marit Heuß entdeckt Peter Handkes "persönliches Epos" – seine Notizbücher – und damit seine in Zeichnungen, Kunstbeschreibungen und Erzählungen facettenreiche "Bildpoetik".

'One of the greatest writers of our time.

Che Guevaras bisher unveröffentlichte Briefe – die Autobiographie, die er nie geschrieben hat.

Paul Auster and J.

'This invaluable collection of over 200 letters by the late Nouwen (The Wounded Healer), a beloved author, pastor, and priest, provides insight into his personal struggles, insecurities, and faith and offers the heartfelt guidance Nouwen shared so generously with individuals to a wide audience .