Carefree, revelatory and intimate, this selection of unpublished letters between the six legendary Mitford sisters, compiled by Diana Mitford's daughter-in-law, is alive with wit, passion and heartbreak.
Using countless interviews as well as original diaries and letters, Andrew Wiest lays bare the horror of the Vietnam War for those left behind and the enduring battles they must continue to fight long after their loved ones have returned home.
Launched at the 1982 Notting Hill Carnival, The Voice newspaper captured and addressed a generation figuring out what it meant to be Black and British.
Recipient of theFrancis Parkman Prize from the Society of American Historians Ralph Waldo Emerson is one of the most important figures in the history of American thought, religion, and literature.
The letters between Eliot and his associates, family and friends - his correspondents range from the Archbishop of York and the American philosopher Paul Elmer More to the writers Virginia Woolf, Herbert Read and Ralph Hodgson - serve to illuminate the ways in which his Anglo-Catholic convictions could, at times, prove a self-chastising and even alienating force.
From the much-celebrated author of the satirical novel Evelina (1778), this volume is the collected journals and private correspondence of Fanny Burney, Queen Charlotte's Keeper of the Robes.
Die Korrespondenz des Braunschweiger Theaterdirektors August Klingemann eröffnetein riesiges Netzwerk aus Regisseuren, Schauspielern, Dramatikern und Verlegernder Goethezeit.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, die Vikare und jungen Pfarrer im Predigerseminar der Bekennenden Kirche in Finkenwalde lebten eine neue Form christlicher und theologischer Existenz.
Ein vergessenes Meisterwerk, das es zu entdecken gilt, ein einmaliges Zeitzeugnis: »Als die Zeit stillstand«, das bewegende Tagebuch des großen Schriftstellers und Journalisten Léon Werth aus dem besetzten Frankreich zur Zeit des Vichy-Regimes der Jahre 1940 bis 1944.
"e;This girl is a real novelist,"e; wrote Caroline Gordon about Flannery O'Connor upon being asked to review a manuscript of O'Connor's first novel, Wise Blood.
Der Briefwechsel von Heinrich und Thomas Mann - eine einzigartige Chronik deutscher Literatur- und Zeitgeschichte, jetzt in einer erweiterten Neuausgabe mit über 100 unbekannten Briefen und Postkarten.
If you or a loved one are worried about Alzheimer's disease or other types of dementia, this pocket guide will help you to better understand the conditions, and how they are diagnosed and treated.
Through an analysis of a broad corpus of correspondences, novels and paintings, this book aims to re-establish the relevance of letter writing within Victorian culture.
Die literarische Wiederentdeckung: der hellsichtige Blick eines Intellektuellen auf die Jahre 1933–1939»Es war vor allem nicht leicht, inmitten eines grandios aufgeblähten Machtsystems zu leben, inmitten eines geistigen Terrors, einer phantastischen Lügenhaftigkeit, innerlich abseits, bemüht, sich nicht blenden zu lassen, auch nicht von scheinbaren Vorzügen und Erfolgen.
John Clellon Holmes met Jack Kerouac on a hot New York City weekend in 1948, and until the end of Kerouac's life they were-in Holmes's words-"e;Brother Souls.
From the bestselling, cancer-vanquishing Love Your Sister team, and edited by the indefatigable Samuel Johnson, comes Dear Lover, a funny, revealing and soul-stirring collection of letters written by notable Australians like Turia Pitt, Samuel Johnson, Susie Youssef, Hilde Hinton, Stuart Coupe, Jacqui Lambie, Larry Emdur, John Paul Young, Mandy Beaumont, Rhett Davis, Adam Harvey, Mark Brandi and Kate Mildenhall, to name a few, just in time for Valentine's Day.
This book presents the Cultural Transduction framework as a conceptual tool to understand the processes that media and cultural products undergo when they cross cultural and national borders.
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 Herrenhäuser Hofgärtner Johann Christoph Wendland (1755-1828), Heinrich Ludolph Wendland (1792-1869) und Hermann Wendland (1823-1903) waren über ein Jahrhundert für den Berggarten zuständig.