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Daphne du Maurier
Letters from Menabilly Portrait of a Friendship
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2014
Daphne du Maurier’s correspondence with Oriel Malet began in the early 1950s, after they met at a cocktail party in London. At least twenty years separated them: Oriel was a gauche young writer while Daphne was the famous, much-fêted author of bestselling novels including Jamaica Inn, My Cousin...
Letter Writing Guide for Scholars, Lovers & Workers
Improve Your Skills and Enjoy the Art of Letter Writing
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2012
This book contains a variety of letters aimed at partners/courting couples or those in the process of developing a relationship with the opposite sex; covering several aspects of correspondence between a romantically involved man and woman.
This book also covers formal letter writing for scholars....
Must I Repeat Myself...?
Unpublished Letters to the Daily Telegraph
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2018
TENTH ANNIVERSARY EDITION
Now in its tenth year, this anniversary edition of the best-selling series is a review of the year made up of the wry and astute observations of the unpublished Telegraph letter writers.
In a year in which even the most seasoned commentators have struggled...
by Robert Borden
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1971
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1971
Robert Laird Borden, Prime Minister of Canada from 1911 to 1920, was born in the village of Grand Pré, Nova Scotia, in 1854. He practiced law in the province before entering politics. In 1896 he was elected to the House of Commons, and in 1901 was chosen leader of the Liberal-Conservative party.
After...
by Cherry Hankin
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 1998
The correspondence of Katherine Mansfield and John Middleton Murry is a story in its own right, as compelling and poignant as any that Mansfield herself invented. Here, juxtaposed for the first time, are 300 letters exchanged between them during their extraordinary eleven-year relationship. The letters...
Practical Strangers
The Courtship Correspondence of Nathaniel Dawson and Elodie Todd, Sister of Mary Todd Lincoln
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
These letters chronicle the wartime courtship of a Confederate soldier and the woman he loved—a sister-in-law of Abraham Lincoln. It is a relative rarity for the correspondence of both writers in Civil War letter collections to survive, as they have here. Rarer still is how frequently and faithfully...
Transatlantic Dialogue
Selected American Correspondence of Edmund Gosse
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
The mauve life and times of Edmund Gosse glow warmly in these letters, delightful to even the most casual reader, engrossing to one with an interest in the distinguished correspondents or in the late-Victorian and Edwardian eras. An obscure figure today to all but literary connoisseurs, Gosse was,...
by Barry Ivker
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2015
One of the things I most enjoy doing is going to estate sales. Call it the excitement of the huntthe prospects of finding a book by an author I had not known before, an artifact from some exotic culture, or even some dishes with a pattern I remembered from childhood. There is always the mystique of...
by Pierre Bayle
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2014
It is very surprising that the Letters of Abelard and Heloise have not sooner appeared in English, since it is generally allowed, by all who have seen them in other languages, that they are written with the greatest passion of any in this kind which are extant. And it is certain that the Letters from...
by Louisa May Alcott
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2017
*This Book is annotated (it contains a detailed biography of the author).
*An active Table of Contents has been added by the publisher for a better customer experience.
*This book has been checked and corrected for spelling errors.
This is a book of letters from the Alcott family (this one...
Take Sides with the Truth
The Postwar Letters of John Singleton Mosby to Samuel F. Chapman
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
During the Civil War, John Singleton Mosby led the Forty-third Battalion, Virginia Cavalry, better known as Mosby's Rangers, in bold and daring operations behind Union lines. Throughout the course of the war, more than 2000 men were members of Mosby's command, some for only a short time. Mosby had...
Elizabeth Manning Hawthorne
A Life in Letters
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2015
An annotated selection of unpublished letters by Nathaniel Hawthorne's sister.
Retrieved from seven different libraries, this corpus of letters was preserved by the Manning family chiefly for their value as records of Nathaniel Hawthorne's life and work; but they ironically also illuminate...
by Andrew Lang
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2014
*This Book is annotated (it contains a detailed biography of the author).
*An active Table of Contents has been added by the publisher for a better customer experience.
*This book has been checked and corrected for spelling errors.
These Letters were originally published in the Independent...
A Real Whole Lot
A World War Ii Soldier’s Love Letters to His Wife
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2017
This book contains about 200 transcribed v-mail letters and a dozen or so letters on paper found while going through family papers after both my of parents’ deaths. These letters are largely from my father to my mother while he was serving in the Army during WWII. These letters provide a glimpse...