Diaries, letters and journals

First published in 1995.

In zahlreichen Disziplinen zeichnet sich in jüngerer Zeit ein lebhaftes Interesse an Carl Ludwig Fernow ab.

Peter Wright has been a dancer, choreographer, teacher, producer and director in the theatre as well as in television for over 70 years.

Handelte es sich bei Imre Kertész' berühmtem «Galeerentagebuch» um eine bewußte Komposition seiner jahrzehntelangen Aufzeichnungen, bilden die Tagebücher 2001–2009 ein unbearbeitetes, ursprünglich nicht für die Öffentlichkeit gedachtes «journal intime» von überraschender, oft verstörender Offenheit.

Though her life was largely circumscribed by domesticity and poverty both in England and in Canada, Catharine Parr Traill’s interests, experiences, and contacts were broad and various.

The year is 1989 and Mark Doty's life has reached a state of enviable equilibrium.

Jacqueline Roussety lässt in ihrem Roman "Wenn das der Führer sähe …" das schlesische Mohrau wieder lebendig werden: den Alltag in den 30er Jahren, die schlesischen Bräuche, die Jahreszeiten - und das erste Automobil.

Qiaopi is the name given in Chinese to letters written home by Chinese migrants to accompany remittances, in the 150 years starting in the 1820s.

This title was originally published in 1980.

One of life's biggest cliches becomes a horrific reality when Douglas Segal's wife and young daughter are hit head-on by a Los Angeles city bus.

The definitive collection of works on a subject that inspired and haunted Charles Bukowski for his entire life: alcohol Charles Bukowski turns to the bottle in this revelatory collection of poetry and prose that includes some of the writers best and most lasting work.

Greece and Asia Minor proved an irresistible lure to English visitors in the seventeenth century.

"1939 begann der 2.

The BBC and HBO series Gentleman Jack brought Anne Lister to international attention, awakening tremendous interest in her diaries, which run to nearly five million words and are partly written in her secret code.

Between 1863 and 1871, Harriet M.

Mary Tudor's childhood was overshadowed by the men in her life: her father, Henry VII, and her brothers Arthur, heir to the Tudor throne, and Henry VIII.

'A unique and thrilling insight into the brilliant mind of Anne Lister' Sally Wainwright, creator of Gentleman JackFemale Fortune is the book which inspired Sally Wainwright to write Gentleman Jack, now a major drama series for the BBC and HBO.

These letters give a unique glimpse into publishing history in Canada and tell a human story of two Canadian men of letters, one in his prime, the other at the end of his life.

In 1909 Myrtle and Ernest Webb took possession of an ordinary farm in Cavendish, Prince Edward Island.

Las casi cuatrocientas cartas que integran este epistolario son especialmente valiosas por su carácter personal y espontáneo, ya que la mayor parte de ellas, enviadas desde Chile —donde Candamo estuvo desterrado entre 1882 y 1883, durante la Guerra del Pacífico—, estuvieron dirigidas a su mujer, Teresa Álvarez Calderón Roldán.

A well-educated, outspoken member of a politically prominent family in Bowling Green, Kentucky, Josie Underwood (1840--1923) left behind one of the few intimate accounts of the Civil War written by a southern woman sympathetic to the Union.

"e;An engrossing portrait"e; IndependentBased on a lifetime living in and reporting on Germany and Central Europe, award-winning journalist and author Peter Millar tackles the fascinating and complex story of the people at the heart of our continent.

Radiation Diaries tells of a month of radiotherapy treatment undergone when Janet Todd was president of a Cambridge college and while her father, in his 100th year, was approaching death, with skin cancer.

Die Familien Pringsheim und Mann nach dem Ersten Weltkrieg und während der Weltwirtschaftskrise.

Der unbekannte Rudi Dutschke – Lebenszeugnis des Idols einer GenerationZum ersten Mal werden Rudi Dutschkes Tagebücher vollständig veröffentlicht.

Es war Fontanes gefährlichste Reise.

A captivating memoir from one of jazz's most beloved practitioners, fourteen-time Grammy winner Paquito D’Rivera’s Letters to Yeyito is a fascinating tour of a life lived in music, and a useful guidebook for aspiring artists everywhere.

Diaries capture the most intimate and revealing aspects of diarists' perception of themselves and the world around them.

Lotte Cohn (1893–1983) gehört zu den wenigen Architekturpionierinnen am Beginn des 20.

Paul and Marie Pireaud, a young peasant couple from southwest France, were newlyweds when World War I erupted.

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

1968 lernen sich einer der wichtigsten Autoren der DDR und einer der bedeutends- ten bildenden Künstler des Landes kennen: Franz Fühmann und Wieland Förster.

From the New York Times bestselling author of Lost in Translation comes an illustrated manifesto and an interactive guide to reclaiming the wonder of the everyday through mindful activities, creative exercises and heart-warming stories.

Jack Kerouac's On the Road helped to define freedom for a generation.

This commentary offers the reader a set of letters (or letter parts) written by Cicero, Paul, and Seneca, which have been selected against the Transformational Leadership categories of 'idealised influence', 'inspirational motivation', 'intellectual stimulation', and 'individualised consideration'.

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive.

The letters in this volume reflect Erasmus' anxiety about the endemic warfare in Western Europe, the advance of the Ottoman Turks into Europe, and the increasing threat of armed conflict between Catholics and Protestants in Germany.

How will the Covid-19 pandemic be remembered?

Available for the first time in English, the complete, uncensored diaries of one of the twentieth century s most influential writers 'The writing glimmers with sensitivity, and openness to the world' - The Wall Street JournalDating from 1909 to 1923, Franz Kafka s Diaries contains a broad array of writing, including accounts of daily events, assorted reflections and observations, literary sketches, drafts of letters, records of dreams, and unrevised texts of stories.

Twenty-six essays offering a kaleidoscopic view of Conrad''s literary views and interest in the events of his day.

I warn society against the child who has been hurt Peter Tyrrell A tormented childhood in Letterfrack industrial school with the Christian Brothers left an enduring mark on Peter Tyrrell.

Between 1941 and 1945 as many as 70,000 inmates died at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in northwestern Germany.

Katherine Anne Porter (1890-1980) produced a relatively small body of fiction, but she wrote thousands and thousands of letters.

These letters chronicle the wartime courtship of a Confederate soldier and the woman he loved-a sister-in-law of Abraham Lincoln.

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.

'Captures both Barbara and her writing so miraculously' JILLY COOPERPicked as a Book to Look Forward to in 2021 by the Guardian, The Times and the ObserverA Radio 4 Book of the Week, April 2021Barbara Pym became beloved as one of the wittiest novelists of the late twentieth century, revealing the inner workings of domestic life so brilliantly that her friend Philip Larkin announced her the era's own Jane Austen.

In den Jahren 1837 bis 1857 reiste Johann Hinrich Wichern, Begründer des Rauhen Hauses und der Inneren Mission, kreuz und quer durch Deutschland.