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Selected Letters of Theodore Roosevelt
Touching and Emotional Correspondence of the Former President with Alice, Theodore III, Kermit, Ethel, Archibald, and Quentin From Their Early Childhood Until Their Adulthood
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2018
This eBook edition of "Selected Letters of Theodore Roosevelt" has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Most of the letters in this book were written by Theodore Roosevelt to his children during a period of more than twenty years. A...
by Franz Kafka
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2013
Written by Kafka between 1909 and 1924, these letters offer a unique insight into the workings of the Kafka family, their relationship with the Prague Jewish community, and Kafka's own feelings about his parents and siblings. A gracious but shy woman, and a silent rebel against the bourgeois society...
by Ralph Ellison
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2019
A radiant collection of letters from the renowned author of Invisible Man that trace the life and mind of a giant of American literature, with insights into the riddle of identity, the writer’s craft, and the story of a changing nation over six decades
These extensive and revealing letters...
by Mandy Kirkby, Helen Dunmore
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2014
From the private papers of Winston Churchill to the tender notes of an unknown Tommy in the trenches, Love Letters of the Great War brings together some of the most romantic correspondence ever written.
Many of the letters collected here are eloquent declarations of love and longing; others...
Reading Vincent van Gogh
A Thematic Guide to the Letters
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016
Soon after his death, Vincent van Gogh’s reputation grew and developed through the remarkably symbiotic relationship evident between his paintings and letters. However, the sheer bulk and complexity of Van Gogh’s complete surviving correspondence presents a formidable challenge to those who wish...
Dear Cathy ... Love, Mary
The Year We Grew Up - Tender, Funny and Revealing Letters from 1980s Ireland
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
'Poignant, funny and highly readable. Would make a wonderful present.' Sue Leonard, Examiner
'A real snapshot in time ... a celebration of female friendship ... fantastic - such a good read' Irish Times Women's Podcast
'Engaging ... tender and true and spiced with wit and no little wisdom' RTE Guide
'Heart-warming...
Letters of Note: Volume 2
An Eclectic Collection of Correspondence Deserving of a Wider Audience
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
From the editor of the New York Times bestseller and instant classic Letters of Note, comes this companion ebook of more than 125 captivating letters. Each turn of the page brings delight and discovery in a collection of correspondence that spans centuries and place, written by the famous, the not-so-famous,...
The Divine Magnet
Herman Melville's Letters to Nathaniel Hawthorne
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2016
If you don't know Melville's letters to Hawthorne, you don't know Melville. These letters are full of passion, humor, doubt, and spiritual yearning, and offer an intimate view of Melville's personality. Lyrical and effusive, they are literary works in themselves. This correspondence has been out of...
by Hunter Davies
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2014
Alfred Wainwright, the legendary fell walker and author of the incomparable and unique Pictorial Guides to the Lakeland Fells was also a fluent, eloquent and diligent correspondent. Writing to old friends and to the many new ones gained through his books, and to his love, and later second wife, Betty,...
by Rainer Maria Rilke
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2002
Rilke's prayerful responses to the french master's beseeching art
For a long time nothing, and then suddenly one has the right eyes.
Virtually every day in the fall of 1907, Rainer Maria Rilke returned to a Paris gallery to view a Cezanne exhibition. Nearly as frequently, he wrote dense...
The Correspondence of Sarah Helen Whitman and Julia Deane Freeman
Writer to Writer, Woman to Woman
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2013
The eighty-one manuscript letters, drafts, notes, and fragments comprising the correspondence between Sarah Helen Whitman (Poe’s onetime fiancée) and Julia Deane Freeman span a tumultuous time in American history, 1856–1863. A veritable Who’s Who in literature during the period, the women’s...
by Karel Čapek
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2014
"Letters from England" is a masterpiece of observation written by the famous Czech writer, Karel Capek. These humorous and insightful letters and drawings were designed to describe Europe's oldest democracy to the citizens of Europe's newest; Capek's countrymen. Within its pages he suggests...
by Cal Finnigan, Rosheen Finnigan
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
THE LETTERS FROM THE SUITCASE by Rosheen and Cal Finnigan reveals the detailed and poignant wartime romance between David and Mary Francis. For readers of Sheila Hancock's MISS CARTER'S WAR or Helen Simonson's MAJOR PETTIGREW'S LAST STAND
'I still have that recurring fear of something happening...
by Maria Edgeworth
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2017
Maria Edgeworth (1768-1849), one of the most celebrated authors of her day both in Ireland and England, is best known for her novels 'Castle Rackrent' (1800) and 'The Absentee' (1812). A contemporary of Jane Austen, Sir Walter Scott and Lord Byron, her prolific correspondence, penned largely from...