Diaries, letters and journals

Eine ungemein kluge und persönliche Reaktion auf Donald Trumps tägliche Skandale.

Einer der bewegendsten deutschen Briefe und seine Folgen.

Personal as well as political, Orwell's letters offer a fascinating window into the mind of a phenomenal man.

Extrait : "La neige tombait par flocons quand nous avons quitté Québec, hier, et je disais à mes amis : Dieu soit béni !

When Jean Sasson s book Princess: Life Behind the Veil in Saudi Arabia was published, it became an immediate international bestseller.

Extrait : "Il s'appelait Désiré-Félix Richard, mais ces trois noms mentaient, car il ne s'estimait ni enviable, ni heureux, ni riche, bien qu'il eût de quoi vivre.

Eine ungemein kluge und persönliche Reaktion auf Donald Trumps tägliche Skandale.

Extrait : "Rien n'indique plus clairement chez un peuple la perte des croyances et des traditions, que la décadence de ses moeurs.

Richard Jefferies was the most imaginative and least conventional of nineteenth-century observers of the natural world.

What was it like to be Charles Dickens?

Esta correspondencia es una muestra de la amistad entre dos de las figuras mas importantes de la literatura latinoamericana.

From rom coms to wrestling and fatherhood to fist fights, Robert Crampton's How to Be a Beta Male is a brilliantly funny and sometimes moving insight into being a modern-day bloke.

Following completion of his medical training and a one-year stint as attending physician on Howard Champion's Surgical Critical Care Service and MedStar Unit at Washington Hospital Center in the District of Columbia, Kenneth Liegner, M.

Bernie Krause is the world's leading expert in natural sound.

'A delicate, poignant modern romance about a shy shopgirl' Richard Corliss Mirabelle Buttersfield spends her days selling expensive evening gloves in Beverly Hills' finest store, and her nights watching television and drawing darkly gothic pictures.

Extrait : "J'étais donc repris par cette passion que six années de joies et de peines de cœur, dirait Shakespeare, n'avaient pas encore éteinte, quoique je l'eusse trahie par beaucoup de fantaisies.

'It is philosophy that has the duty of protecting us .

Anne Franks Tagebuch, weltbekannt und geliebt, liegt jetzt in einer völlig neuen Fassung vor: »Das Tagebuch der Anne Frank: Graphic Diary.

The Prince George Diaries is a new comedy about the Royal Family told from the inside out.

A unique combination of memoir and artistic biography, interspersed with original artworks, from the acclaimed artist and author of SELF-PORTRAIT.

FROM THE ONE-OF-A-KIND IMAGINATION THAT BROUGHT US SLAUGHTERHOUSE 5 AND CAT'S CRADLE 'Kurt Vonnegut is either the funniest serious writer around or the most serious funny writer' Los Angeles Times Book Review An 'autobiographical collage' of speeches, stories and essays, in Palm Sunday, Kurt Vonnegut writes beguilingly about everything from country music to George Bush, his favourite comedians to his mother's midnight mania, and bittersweet tributes to a dead best friend and a dead marriage.

'A Latin American James Dean or Jack Kerouac' Washington Post'It's true; Marxists just wanna have fun.

Einer der bewegendsten deutschen Briefe und seine Folgen.

La vinculación entre Gabriela Mistral y seis presidentes de la República es materia central de estas páginas.

Drawn from journals, this book is an account of a woman's sexual awakening, covering a single momentous year - 1931-32, in Paris, when June fell in love with Henry Miller, undermining her own idealized marriage.

Im Jahre 1609 baut Galileo Galilei in Padua ein Teleskop, und Johannes Kepler veröffentlicht in Prag seine Planetengesetze.

What was it like to be Charles Dickens?

At a time when the orthodox Leninist regimes of Eastern Europe are in crisis, Serge and Trotsky both stand as non-orthodox revolutionaries whose messages will now emerge from underserved obscurity.

'A moving read - honest, funny and sad' Woman and Home'wonderful, moving, humorous .

Marie Curie war eine Besessene, deren wissenschaftliche Karriere alle Rekorde brach.

The young naturalist W.

The second novel in the bestselling Gerhard Self detective series, from the author of The ReaderIn Self's Deception, private investigator Gerhard Self receives a request to track down the daughter of Herr Salger, the Assistant Secretary of Bonn, who's been absent from her translation classes at the university.

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Esta correspondencia es una muestra de la amistad entre dos de las figuras mas importantes de la literatura latinoamericana.

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"In den Märchen über Inzest zwischen Vater und Tochter – ›Das Mädchen ohne Hände‹, ›Allerleirauh‹, in der Originalversion von ›Aschenputtel‹ und den Geschichten der Heiligen Dymphna, der Patronin aller Inzest-Opfer – verhalten sich die Töchter immer genauso, wie man es von ihnen erwarten würde: Sie sind entsetzt über die sexuellen Annäherungen ihrer Väter.

Readers of Princess Sultana's extraordinary biography Princess were gripped by her powerful indictment of women's lives behind the veil within the royal family of Saudi Arabia.

One of the world's foremost commentators on religious affairs on the history (and destiny) of the world's most misunderstood religion.

A remarkable collection of 'Covid Chronicles' -- stories from lockdown sent in from listeners to BBC Radio 4 -- making a deeply moving people's history of the pandemic.

The Men Within is a collection of intimate thoughts, prayers, and letters that represent the struggles of the man, the good man, and the godly man that dwell within me and a sharing of insight into how they transition from one to another.

Extrait : "Au commencement du XIXe siècle vivait à Boulogne-sur-Mer, une famille bourgeoise jouissant d'une certaine aisance et parfaitement apparentée, du nom de Paillet-Dupont, en ménage depuis le 17 janvier 1786.

In a society uprooted by two world wars, industrialization, and dehumanizing technology, a revolutionary farmer turns to poetry to reconnect his people to the land and one another.

The secret diary of Vogue Editor-in-Chief Alexandra Shulman and the real story behind the BBC TV ABSOLUTELY FASHION documentary.

'It has been said by its opponents that science divorces itself from literature; but the statement, like so many others, arises from lack of knowledge.

"Susanne Dreß schreibt so anschaulich über ihren Bruder Dietrich, dass man das Gefühl hat, bei Familie Bonhoeer mit am Esstisch zu sitzen.

Extrait : "Je n'ai pas entreprise ce livre pour redire, dans son détail quotidien, la néfaste histoire du tribunal révolutionnaire.

Extrait : "Par une belle matinée du mois d'août 1868, mon meilleur ami, celui qui partage exactement mes peines et mes joies, et, pour tout dire, mon linge aussi, était arrêté, à l'angle de la rue Vavin, en extase devant un melon.

Another beautiful, revelatory country diary from one of the best nature writers in Britain.