Diaries, letters and journals

I am no good at letters.

An important and long-overdue contribution to our knowledge of Tolstoy.

'An important and long-overdue contribution to our knowledge of Tolstoy.

Erica Wagner provides a comprehensive guide to the poems that must constitute one of the most extraordinary and powerful volumes published in the last century.

Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) was one of the writers that defined the course of twentieth-century poetry.

Eliot is called upon to become the completely public man.

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.

Through a selection of letters to friends and literary peers, Dai Greatcoatpresents a rare insight into the life of the poet and artist David Jones and in so doing offers an autobiographical portrait of the author in his own words.

Paul Auster and J.

The journal of Benjamin Haydon was, Max Beerbohm reported to Siegfried Sassoon, the best diary Beerbohm had ever read.

Volume 4 of the letters of T.

In the period covered by this richly detailed collection, which brings the poet to the age of forty, T.

Best remembered for his operas and his War Requiem, Benjamin Britten's radical politics and his sexuality have also ensured that he remains a controversial public figure.

The Journals of Sylvia Plath offers an intimate portrait of the author of the extraordinary poems for which Plath is so widely loved, but it is also characterized by a prose of vigorous immediacy which places it alongside The Bell Jar as a work of literature.

Letters Home represents Sylvia Plath's correspondence from her time at Smith College in the early 1950s, through her meeting with, and subsequent marriage to, the poet Ted Hughes, up to her death in February 1963.

An important and illuminating collection of essays and lectures by the winner of the 1983 Nobel Prize for Literature.

Philip Larkin met Monica Jones at University College Leicester in autumn 1946, when they were both twenty-four; he was the newly-appointed assistant librarian and she was an English lecturer.

Volume One of the Letters of T.

At the outset of his career Ted Hughes described letter writing as 'excellent training for conversation with the world', and he was to become a prolific master of this art.

Already a bestseller, this is a wonderfully entertaining collection of Alan Bennett's prose writings.

An exchange of letters on prayer between British diplomat Mark Allen and Carmelite nun Ruth Burrows.

This is the second volume in the first full-scale scholarly edition of Thoreau's correspondence in more than half a century.

The essential collection of critical essays from a twentieth-century master and author of 1984.

"e;Like the remarkable city to which they pay tribute, the pieces assembled in this book are diverse, engrossing, illuminating, emotional, funny — and glorious.

Mark Twain among the Indians and Other Indigenous Peoples is the first book-length study of the writer's evolving views regarding the aboriginal inhabitants of North America and the Southern Hemisphere, and his deeply conflicted representations of them in fiction, newspaper sketches, and speeches.

Arnold Schoenberg and Thomas Mann, two towering figures of twentieth-century music and literature, both found refuge in the German-exile community in Los Angeles during the Nazi era.

Langston Hughes, one of Americas greatest writers, was an innovator of jazz poetry and a leader of the Harlem Renaissance whose poems and plays resonate widely today.

Robert Creeley is one of the most celebrated and influential American poets.

This volume presents a selection of 500 letters by Clarence Darrow, the pre-eminent courtroom lawyer of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.

This authoritative volume of 453 letters written by and to composer Charles Ives (1874-1954) provides unparalleled insight into one of the most extraordinary and paradoxical careers in American music history.

For Charles Olson, letters were not only a daily means of communication with friends but were at the same time a vehicle for exploratory thought.

This collection of correspondence between Clemens and Rogers may be thought of as a continuation of Mark Twains Letters to His Publishers, 1867-1894, edited by Hamlin Hill.

Maurice Baring OBE was born on 27th April 1874 in Mayfair, London.

Maurice Baring OBE was born on 27th April 1874 in Mayfair, London.

Originally published in 1956 this book contains extracts of the 18th century diary of an Efik chief and documents the activities of slave-traders, the rituals of the Egbo society and many details of domestic life of among the Efik.

Originally published in 1956 this book contains extracts of the 18th century diary of an Efik chief and documents the activities of slave-traders, the rituals of the Egbo society and many details of domestic life of among the Efik.

Frederick Douglass spent four months in Ireland at the end of 1845 that proved to be, in his own words, 'transformative'.

Frederick Douglass spent four months in Ireland at the end of 1845 that proved to be, in his own words, 'transformative'.

In 1921, a young female doctor started analysis with Sigmund Freud.

The collected letters of Donald Winnicott, a central figure in British psychoanalysis in the first post-Freud generation.

Karl Abraham was an important and influential early member of Freud's inner circle of trusted colleagues.

The Ferenczi-Jones correspondence presented here is an important document of the early history of psychoanalysis.

All My Sins Remembered is the continuation of Wilfred Bion's autobiography, The Long Week-end.

In 1921, a young female doctor started analysis with Sigmund Freud.

The collected letters of Donald Winnicott, a central figure in British psychoanalysis in the first post-Freud generation.

Karl Abraham was an important and influential early member of Freud's inner circle of trusted colleagues.

The Ferenczi-Jones correspondence presented here is an important document of the early history of psychoanalysis.

All My Sins Remembered is the continuation of Wilfred Bion's autobiography, The Long Week-end.

First published in 1998, this volume combines a bio-critical account of Caroline Bowles Southey's career with a general selection of her works, both poetry and prose, with the latter drawing attention on her remarkable talent as a letter writer.