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by Henry David Thoreau
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2014
The Letters of Thoreau, though not less remarkable in some aspects than what he wrote carefully for publication, have thus far scarcely had justice done them. The selection made for a small volume in 1865 was designedly done to exhibit one phase of his character,—the most striking, if you will,...
by Gustave Flaubert
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Gustave Flaubert was a prominent French writer in the 19th century. Flaubert, who wrote the classic novel Madame Bovary, was a significant contributor to literary realism. This edition of The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters includes a table of contents.
The Hours After
Letters of Love and Longing in War's Aftermath
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2000
The love letters of Gerda and Kurt Klein, revealing one of the greatest love stories ever told.
Over fifty years ago, Gerda Weissmann was barely alive at the end of a 350-mile death march that took her from a slave labor camp in Germany to the Czech border. On May 7, 1945, the American military...
Memorable Days
The Selected Letters of James Salter and Robert Phelps
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2010
“[A] well-edited collection . . . More than friends and less than lovers, Salter and Phelps were literary soul mates.” —Publishers Weekly
It was James Salter’s third novel, A Sport and a Pastime—together with his film Three and a script he had written for Downhill Racer—that in...
Soul of the Age
Selected Letters of Hermann Hesse, 1891-1962
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2013
Throughout his life, Herman Hesse was a devoted letter writer. He corresponded, not just with friends and family, but also with his readers. From his letters home from the seminary at age fourteen, to his last letters, written days before his death at eighty-five, this selection gives a sense of the author of some of the most widely read books of the century.
by Marieke Hardy, Michaela McGuire
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2011
In a world of the short and swift, of texts and Twitter, there's something of special value about a carefully composed letter. In homage to this most civilised of activities, Marieke Hardy and Michaela McGuire created the literary afternoons of Women of Letters. Some of Australia's finest dames of...
by Blaise Pascal
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
An important historical figure to this day, Blaise Pascal was born in Clermont-Ferrand, France in 1623. A very bright child, Pascal was homeschooled by his father and later moved to Paris. Though his family was religious, involved in Jansenism, Pascal was much more interested in science and mathematics....
by Henry James
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2013
The novelist Henry James arrived in Venice as a tourist, and instantly fell in love with the city – particularly with the splendid Palazzo Barbaro, home of the expatriate American Curtis family. This selection of letters covers the period 1869-1907 and provides a unique record of the life and work...
The Artist in New York
Letters to Jean Charlot and unpublished writings, 1925-1929.
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2011
In his Foreword to this edition, Jean Charlot says: "An unusual feature of Orozco's letters is the great deal that he has to say about art. That one artist writing to another would emphasize art as his subject seems normal enough to the American reader. Yet, within the context of the Mexico of...
by Robert Gottlieb
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2011
The product of a lifetime immersed in the literary, performing arts, and entertainment worlds, Lives and Letters spotlights the work, careers, intimate lives, and lasting achievements of a vast array of celebrated writers and performers in film, theater, and dance, and some of the more curious iconic...
What I Know Now About Success
Letters from Extraordinary Women to Their Younger Selves
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2010
Erma Bombeck once said, When I stand before God at the end of my life, I'd hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left and could say, I used everything you gave me.'” How each woman defines success might be a personal matter, but there are certain gems of wisdom we can all share....
Dear Chester, Dear John
Letters between Chester Himes and John A. Williams
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2008
Chester Himes and John A. Williams met in 1961, as Himes was on the cusp of transcontinental celebrity and Williams, sixteen years his junior, was just beginning his writing career. Both men would go on to receive international acclaim for their work, including Himes’s Harlem detective novels featuring...
by Vladimir Nabokov
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2012
“Wonderful, compulsively readable, delicious” personal correspondences, spanning decades in the life and literary career of the author of Lolita (The Washington Post Book World).
An icon of twentieth-century literature, Vladimir Nabokov was a novelist, poet, and playwright, whose personal...
"Dearest Georg": Love, Literature, and Power in Dark Times
The Letters of Elias, Veza, and Georges Canetti, 1933-1948
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2010
In 1934, Veza Taubner and Elias Canetti were married in Vienna. Elias describes the arrangement to his brother Georges as a “functional” marriage. Meanwhile, an intense intellectual love affair develops between Veza and Georges, a young doctor suffering fromtuberculosis. Four years later, Veza...