Diaries, letters and journals

One of Germany's greatest poets, Johann Christian Friedrich H lderlin (1770-1843) was also a prose writer of intense feeling, intelligence and perception.

The Second World War was the first truly global conflict and sixty years on its consequences continue to shape the modern world.

'In the journal I do not just express myself more openly than I could do to any person; I create myself'Intimate, vulnerable and unsparing, Reborn bears witness to the evolution of Susan Sontag.

A phenomenonally precicious schoolboy, Rimbaud was still a teenager when he became notorious as Europe's most shocking and exhilarating poet.

Cook led three famous expeditions to the Pacific Ocean between 1768 and 1779.

George Orwell was an inveterate keeper of diaries.

A Moment of War is the magnificent conclusion to Laurie Lee s autobiographical trilogy begun in Cider with Rosie and As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning .

Will They Ever Trust Us Again?

A new selection of Vincent Van Gough's letters, based on an entirely new translation, revealing his religious struggles, his fascination with the French Revolution, his search for love and his involvement in humanitarian causes.

This collection of letters forms a fascinating day-by-day account of Steinbeck's writing of EAST OF EDEN, his longest and most ambitious novel.

Nobel Prize-winner John Steinbeck was a prolific correspondent.

A prominent lawyer and administrator, Pliny (c.

The story of Abelard and Heloise remains one of the world's most celebrated and tragic love affairs.

Illuminating writings by Stoicism's most eloquent advocate, now with a new introduction'It is philosophy that has the duty of protecting us.

A major writer and a leading figure in the public life of Rome, Seneca (c.

After a period of forced exile and solitary wandering brought about by his radical views on religion and politics, Jean-Jacques Rousseau returned to Paris in 1770.

The Diary recorded by Lady Murasaki (c.

A new translation of the idiosyncratic diary of a C10 court lady in Heian Japan.

Just after the iron curtain fell on Eastern Europe John Steinbeck and acclaimed war photographer, Robert Capa ventured into the Soviet Union to report for the New York Herald Tribune.

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.

Book by Samuel Johnson, published in 1775.

William Burroughs closed his classic debut novel, Junky, by saying he had determined to search out a drug he called 'Yage' which he believed transmitted telepathic powers, a drug that could be 'the final fix'.

A selection of Mozart's letters, translated into English, complete with notes, linking commentary and chronology.

Novelist, playwright and barrister John Mortimer has led an extraordinarily rich life, privately and professionally, much of it in the public eye.

In the 1920s, the young J.

'With one's face in the wind you were almost burned with a shower of Firedrops'A selection from Pepys' startlingly vivid and candid diary, including his famous account of the Great FireIntroducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday.

'They wanted me to give a concert; I wanted them to beg me.

The Marquis de Custine's unique perspective on a vast, fascinating country in the grip of oppressive tyrannyIn 1839, encouraged by his friend Balzac, Custine set out to explore Russia.

Letters from Burma - an unforgettable collection from the Nobel Peace prize winner Aung San Suu KyiIn these astonishing letters, Aung San Suu Kyi reaches out beyond Burma's borders to paint for her readers a vivid and poignant picture of her native land.

September 1914, and the whole of Europe was at war following the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his beloved wife Sophie by Gavrilo Princip in Sarajevo on 28th June 1914.

The irresistible, candid diaries of Richard Burton, published in their entirety for the first time Irresistibly magnetic on stage, mesmerizing in movies, seven times an Academy Award nominee, Richard Burton rose from humble beginnings in Wales to become Hollywood's most highly paid actor and one of England's most admired Shakespearean performers.

The first extensive publication from the extraordinary archive of private correspondence between two of this country's most famous artists There are few couples in the history of 20th-century American art and culture more prominent than Georgia O'Keeffe (1887–1986) and Alfred Stieglitz (1864–1946).

The first standard edition of the writings of Felicia Hemans (1793-1835), this volume marks a revival of interest in, and a new critical appreciation of, one of the most important literary figures of the early nineteenth century.

Hundreds of novels have been written about young men coming of age in war.

This extraordinary collection of letters sheds light on one of the most important postwar American poets and on a creative woman's life from the 1950s onward.

WRITTEN DURING HER TRAVELS IN EUROPE, ASIA, AND AFRICA, TO Persons of Distinction, Men of Letters, &c.

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

This dive into the Yamashita family archive and Japanese internment runs a documentary impulse through filters that shimmer with imagination.

Few subjects in European welfare history attract as much attention as the nineteenth-century English and Welsh New Poor Law.

Following Antonietta and Loris's first kiss in the shadows of the Italian Alps barely a year after the end of the Second World War, the couple was divided by a distance far greater than could ever have been imagined.

Following Antonietta and Loris's first kiss in the shadows of the Italian Alps barely a year after the end of the Second World War, the couple was divided by a distance far greater than could ever have been imagined.

This dive into the Yamashita family archive and Japanese internment runs a documentary impulse through filters that shimmer with imagination.

Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) was the author of nearly fifty books and numerous essays, best known for his dystopian novel Brave New World.

Twelve Years A Slave is subtitled Narrative of Solomon Northup, citizen of New York, kidnapped in Washington city in 1841, and rescued in 1853 from a cotton plantation near the Red River in Louisiana.

A Passionate Apprentice comprises the first years of Virginia Woolf's Journal - from 1879 to 1909.

En 1909 Elinore Pruitt Stewart, una joven viuda con una niña pequeña, decidió romper con todo e irse a las agrestes montañas de Wyoming, en pleno Oeste americano, a probar suerte como pionera.

The debut work in English by Mexico's greatest and most influential living author and winner of the Cervantes Prize ("e;the Spanish language Nobel"e;), The Art of Flight takes the reader on a whirlwind tour of the world's cultural capitals as Sergio Pitol looks back on his well-traveled life as a legendary author, translator, scholar, and diplomat.

'The Love Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning & Robert Browning' gathers the intimate correspondences between two of Victorian England's most celebrated poets, offering an unprecedented glimpse into their passionate and intellectually rigorous relationship.

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