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by Adrienne Rich
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2018
A career-spanning selection of the lucid, courageous, and boldly political prose of National Book Award winner Adrienne Rich.
Adrienne Rich was an award-winning poet, influential essayist, radical feminist, and major intellectual voice of her generation. Essential Essays gathers twenty-five...
Letters
Book Two
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
“This is a book of personal letters that continue to tell the story of my life …” Letters tell stories, too. Written words can move hearts.
From the multi-awarded Asian-American writer comes a new collection of personal letters that captured long-lasting memories. Just like its predecessor...
The Letters of Ruth Pitter
Silent Music
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2014
Although Ruth Pitter (1897**–**1992) is not well known, her credentials as a poet are extensive, and in England from the mid-1930s to the mid-1970s she maintained a modest yet loyal readership. In total she produced eighteen volumes of new and collected verse. Her A Trophy of Arms (1936) won the...
In Their Own Words
Letters from History
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
The way we communicate has changed. Today, many of our interactions are digital, but until recently writing letters was the norm. Drawing from over 100 miles of records held at the UK's official government archive, The National Archives at Kew, this collection of letters, postcards and telegraphs...
JOHN KEATS: His Life, His Letters & His Literary Remains (Knowing the Man behind the Lyrics)
Complete Letters and Two Extensive Biographies of one of the most beloved English Romantic poets
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2017
This carefully edited collection has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. John Keats (1795-1821) was an English Romantic poet. The poetry of Keats is characterized by sensual imagery, most notably in the series of odes. Today his...
Noble Sentiments of the Soul
The Civil War Letters of Joseph Dobbs Bishop, Chief Musician, 23Rd Connecticut Volunteer Infantry, 1862-1863
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015
While Joseph Dobbs Bishop was serving in Louisiana with the 23rd Connecticut Volunteer Infantry, he wrote letters ceaselessly to his wife and children. In several ways, his correspondence is typical of Civil War soldiershe sends news of his comrades, he mentions his duties (he was a musician as well...
Tolstoy and Tolstaya
A Portrait of a Life in Letters
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017
Both Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy (1828–1910) and his wife Sofia Andreevna Tolstaya (1844–1919) were prolific letterwriters.
Lev Nikolaevich wrote approximately 10,000 letters over his lifetime — 840 of these addressed to his wife. Letters written by (or to) Sofia Andreevna over her lifetime...
Essays on Modernity
And the Permanent Things from Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
Essays on Modernity covers a wide range of topics, but the essential thesis remains the same throughout; contemporary Western society has abandoned the permanent things of tradition in favor of fleeting pleasures, self-worship, and the secular rationalizations that justify them. But the West is by...
The Emerson Brothers
A Fraternal Biography in Letters
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2005
The Emerson Brothers: A Fraternal Biography in Letters is a narrative and epistolary biography drawn from the unpublished lifelong correspondence exchanged among four brothers: Charles Chauncy, Edward Bliss, Ralph Waldo, and William Emerson. This is an extensive correspondence, for not counting Waldo's...
by Marcus Tullius Cicero
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2016
The object of this book is to give the English-speaking public, in a convenient form, as faithful and readable a copy as the translator was capable of making of a document unique in the literature of antiquity. Whether we regard the correspondence of Cicero from the point of view of the biographer...
by Diana M. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2012
I never met my great uncle. I really, only knew his name. His story begins for me with a box of letters and mementos saved by my great aunt. I always knew the box existed, but I had never opened it. My mother would often say, Oh, those letters are from Lowell during the war. They are so sad. Well,...
The Land of Open Doors
Being Letters from Western Canada 1911-1913
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1976
The letters collected in this volume preserve the vivid and thoughtful impressions of a young man who came to western Canada in the early twentieth century. J. Burgon Bickersteth joined the Anglican mission in Edmonton a year after its establishment in 1910. As a lay missionary he travelled in the...
by Henry James
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2015
Dodo Collections brings you another classic from Henry James, ‘The Letters of Henry James’.
The Complete Letters of Henry James fills a crucial gap in modern literary studies by presenting in a scholarly edition the complete letters of one of the great novelists and letter writers...
by Anton Chekhov
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
From the Translator's Note: "Of the eighteen hundred and ninety letters published by Chekhov's family I have chosen for translation these letters and passages from letters which best to illustrate Chekhov's life, character and opinions. The brief memoiris abridged and adapted from the biographical...