Essays Letters category: 7676 books
by C. S. Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2017
A repackaged edition of the revered author’s collection of personal letters—a curated selection of the best of his correspondence with family, friends, and fans—and a short biography by his brother Warren Lewis.
Letters of C. S. Lewis reveals the most intimate beliefs of the great British...
by
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2009
Love Letters of Great Men was published to great success in November of 2008. It was a fantastic holiday hit that continued to sell well through Valentine's Day. The demand was fueled by the fictional book's presence in the hit film Sex and the City.
As a companion to Love Letters of Great Men, this...
Anne Sexton
A Self-Portrait in Letters
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
A revealing collection of letters from Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Anne Sexton
While confessional poet Anne Sexton included details of her life and battle with mental illness in her published work, her letters to family, friends, and fellow poets provide an even more intimate glimpse into...
Letters to My Grandchildren
Wisdom and inspiration from one of the most important thinkers on the planet
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
In these inspiring letters to his grandchildren, David Suzuki speaks passionately about their future. He challenges them to speak out and act on their beliefs, explains why sports are important, decries the lack of elders and grandparents in the lives of many people, especially immigrants, and champions...
by Piers Anthony
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
The New York Times–bestselling author of the Xanth novels wrote these weekly letters to a fan of is books in the hope of helping her out of a coma.
In February 1989, science fiction writer Piers Anthony, author of the Xanth series, received a moving letter. It came from a woman whose daughter,...
Dear Mrs. Kennedy
The World Shares Its Grief, Letters November 1963
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2010
From the bestselling author of Kennedy Weddings and Diana and Jackie comes a powerful and moving collection of the condolence letters Jacqueline Kennedy received after the assassination of John F. Kennedy
In the weeks and months following the assassination of her husband, First Lady Jacqueline...
Saul Bellow
Letters
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2010
A never-before-published collection of letters - an intimate self-portrait as well as the portrait of a century. Saul Bellow was a dedicated correspondent until a couple of years before his death, and his letters, spanning eight decades, show us a twentieth-century life in all its richness and complexity....
by Charlotte Brontë, Janet Gezari
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2010
'Dangerous as lucifer matches.' That was how Arthur Nicholls, Charlotte Brontë's husband for the last nine months of her life, described her letters. Full of acute observations, pithy character sketches, and passionate convictions, the letters are our most direct source of information about the lives...
Twentysomething Essays by Twentysomething Writers
On New Jobs, Old Loves, Fighting the Man, Having a Kid, Saving the World, and Everything in Between
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2006
Selected as the winners of Random House’s national contest, a stunning collection of essays ranging from comic to poignant, personal to political, by the brightest young writers you haven’t heard of . . . yet.
Here, for the first time, current twentysomethings come together on their own...
I Must Resist
Bayard Rustin's Life in Letters
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2012
BAYARD RUSTIN POSTHUMOUSLY AWARDED THE 2013 PRESIDENTIAL MEDAL OF FREEDOM
A master strategist and tireless activist, Bayard Rustin is best remembered as the organizer of the 1963 March on Washington, one of the largest nonviolent protests ever held in the United States. He brought Gandhi's...
by Ulysses S. Grant
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2018
The Civil War's greatest general as you've never seen him before, in a revealing collection of letters to his wife Julia introduced by Ron Chernow.
Ulysses S. Grant is justly celebrated as the author of one of the finest military autobiographies ever written, yet many readers of his Personal...
by Mark Twain
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
According to the foreword: "Nowhere is the human being more truly revealed than in his letters. Not in literary letters--prepared with care, and the thought of possible publication--but in those letters wrought out of the press of circumstances, and with no idea of print in mind. A collection of such...
Things like the Truth
Out of My Later Years
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2016
Winner of the National Book Award and the author of numerous highly praised works of fiction and nonfiction, Ellen Gilchrist is also a daughter, mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother who takes delight in her large, wonderful family. Things like the Truth offers a collection of nonfiction essays...
Selected Letters of Katherine Anne Porter
Chronicles of a Modern Woman
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2012
Katherine Anne Porter (1890-1980) produced a relatively small body of fiction, but she wrote thousands and thousands of letters. The present selection of 135 unexpurgated letters, written to seventy-four different persons, begins with a 1916 letter written from a tuberculosis sanatorium in Texas and...