Diaries, letters and journals

The 1960s saw the nexus of the revolution in popular music by a post-war generation amid demographic upheavals and seismic shifts in technology.

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.

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.

This story describes a short period of my life when I left behind my husband and family to take up an assignment with the New Zealand Volunteer Service Abroad.

Love Letters is a host of expressions and thoughts of love I wrote to my future wife whom I met overseas.

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Oscar Wilde's autobiographical work on suffering, self-realization, and the artistic processDe Profundis (Latin for "e;from the depths"e;) is Oscar Wilde's reconciliation from a life full of pleasure.

The New York Times-bestselling author of the Xanth novels wrote these weekly letters to a fan of is books in the hope of helping her out of a coma.

'The compelling stories in this book are funny, uplifting and at times poignant and sad, but always honest.

The author worked and vacationed in Liberia and West Africa from 1962-1964 and 1964 respectively.

The rise of her is the fall of you.

A Lady, Her Letters, Our Legacy; Hand Painted, is a letter writing look, into more than one girls story.

Issues of the Heart is a collection of topics that we face through-outlife.

In a Quiet Voice is a collection of essays, free verse and stories the writer presents retrospectively as writings he recorded over time.

Hailed as a landmark in Canadian literary scholarship when it was originally published in 1965, the Literary History of Canada is now being reissued, revised and enlarged, in three volumes.

It is for his poetry that A.

Hailed as a landmark in Canadian literary scholarship when it was originally published in 1965, the Literary History of Canada is now being reissued, revised and enlarged, in three volumes.

Italian poet, novelist, literary critic and translator Cesare Pavese (1908-1950) is generally recognized as one of the most important writers of his period.

Frederick Philip Grove was an important Canadian novelist and essayist, and a pioneer in the development of Canadian fiction.

The story of Charles Mair is that of a man who has been almost forgotten by modern Canada.

By John Ruskin's own account, 1858 was a turning-point in his life -- the year in which he turned away from his evangelical upbringing toward a more humanistic attitude.

In this book, distinguished scholars and writers of today discuss leading figures in the history of Canadian letters and public affairs, providing a treasury of information on Canadians of importance, and a meeting between Canada's past and present.

Again Carleton University's important lecture series has produced a stimulating volume in which leading figures in the history of Canadian letters and public affairs are seen in the light of today by a group of distinguished scholars and writers.

Trained as a surgeon, renowned as a conductor, Boyd Neel led a life rich in innovation, achievement, and enthusiasm.

Thomas Hood, 1799-1845, is one of the most notable minor authors of the late Romantic and early Victorian period.

In 1883 Anna Leveridge brought her children from England to make a home with her husband in the backwoods of north Hastings County, Ontario.

In the four decades between 1920 and 1960, William Deacon, Canada's first full-time literary journalist, devoted his career to the twin goals of fostering a Canadian readership for Canadian writers and creating a sense of community among those writers.

The love story of Susanna Moodie and her husband John has always been a shadowy area in Canadian literary history.

Examining the diary as a particular form of expression, Holding On and Holding Out provides unique insight into the experiences of Jews in France during the Second World War.

Examining the diary as a particular form of expression, Holding On and Holding Out provides unique insight into the experiences of Jews in France during the Second World War.

An exceptional document of an extraordinary life, The Soul of Things is the memoir of Holocaust survivor Eva Fahidi.

An exceptional document of an extraordinary life, The Soul of Things is the memoir of Holocaust survivor Eva Fahidi.

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

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

Every year in the United States, 12 per cent of all births are preterm births, 5 per cent of all babies need help to breathe at birth, and 3 per cent of neonates are born with at least one severe malformation.

Every year in the United States, 12 per cent of all births are preterm births, 5 per cent of all babies need help to breathe at birth, and 3 per cent of neonates are born with at least one severe malformation.

In the early 1930s, approximately 6,500 Finns from Canada and the United States moved to Soviet Karelia, on the border of Finland, to build a Finnish workers' society.

In the early 1930s, approximately 6,500 Finns from Canada and the United States moved to Soviet Karelia, on the border of Finland, to build a Finnish workers' society.

The letters in this volume cover Erasmus' correspondence from March to December 1527.

In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the Russian empire opened the grasslands of southern Ukraine to agricultural settlement.

In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the Russian empire opened the grasslands of southern Ukraine to agricultural settlement.

This volume contains the surviving correspondence of Erasmus for the first seven months of 1529.

This volume covers a number of significant events and issues in Erasmus' life and in the history of his times.

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Years ago, my father would urge me to accompany him to the side porch of our home in order to tell me stories of happenings in his life while he was growing up.

Mark Twain's letters for 1874 and 1875 encompass one of his most productive and rewarding periods as author, husband and father, and man of property.

Mark Twain's letters for 1874 and 1875 encompass one of his most productive and rewarding periods as author, husband and father, and man of property.

The book that made Mark Twain famous and introduced theworld to that obnoxious and ubiquitous character: the American touristBased on a series of letters first published in American newspapers, The Innocents Abroad is Mark Twain's hilarious and insightful account of an organized tour of Europe and the Holy Land undertaken in 1867.

A sterling collection of essays, commentary, reviews, and personal recollections on art, love, and the musical life, from Ned Rorem, award-winning composer and author extraordinaireNed Rorem, the acclaimed American composer and writer, displays his incisive, sometimes outrageous genius for artistic critique and social commentary with a grand flourish in this engaging collection of essays and diary entries.