Essays Letters category: 7676 books
Sometimes I Think About It
Essays
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
An essay collection by a writer who “may be writing under . . . the influence of genius” (Vanity Fair)
In Sometimes I Think About It, Stephen Elliott gathers personal essays, reportage, and profiles written over fifteen years to tell a powerful story about outsiders and underdogs.
Moving...
Darling Monster
The Letters of Lady Diana Cooper to Son John Julius Norwich, 1939-1952
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2014
Lady Diana Cooper was an aristocrat, a socialite, an actress of stage and early screen. When she married rising political star Duff Cooper, they became the golden couple who knew everyone who was anyone; they sat at the very heart of British public life. Diana’s letters to her only son, John Julius...
Jane Austen's correspondence and letters
The complete and definitive edition
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2017
Jane Austen's letters afford a unique insight into the daily life of the novelist: intimate and gossipy, observant and informative, they bring alive her family and friends, her surroundings and contemporary events with a freshness unparalleled in modern biographies. Above all we recognize the unmistakable...
by Jane Austen
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
One of the most beloved authors in English literature, Jane Austen wrote myriad novels, stories and poems that illustrated her sophisticated sense of irony, humor and biting commentary on the society of Regency England. As the majority of her work was published anonymously, in the custom of female authors...
by David Foster Wallace
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
The essays in The Story About the Story Vol. II chart a trajectory that digs deep into the past and aims toward a future in which literature can play a new and more profound role in how we think, read, live, and write.
In the second volume of The Story About the Story, editor J. C. Hallman...
Letters from a Life Volume 3 (1946-1951)
The Selected Letters of Benjamin Britten
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2011
The third volume of the annotated selected letters of composer Benjamin Britten covers the years 1946-51, during which he wrote many of his best-known works, founded and developed the English Opera Group and the Aldeburgh Festival, and toured widely in Europe and the United States as a pianist and...
by Robert Louis Stevenson
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 1999
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) is best known as the author of The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Treasure Island, and Kidnapped, but his essays comprise an oft-overlooked trove of gems, intriguing in their content and generous in their scope. This collection of nearly three dozen of...
by George Sampson
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2014
George Sampson has collected here some of William Hazlitt's finest works. The first four essays show him as the Boswell Lamb and the candid friend of Wordsworth and Coleridge. The next three are an extension of this group, forming a pleasant parallel to Lamb's Detached Thoughts on Books and Reading...
I Love You Madly
Marie-Antoinette and Count Fersen: The Secret Letters
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
Delve deeper into the world of the BBC hit drama series Versailles, and discover the real Marie-Antoinette in this ground-breaking study of her secret love affair with the Swedish diplomat Count Axel von Fersen.
For the first time an historian has compiled all the known letters between Swedish...
A Wild Perfection
The Selected Letters of James Wright
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2005
The life and work of a major American poet described in his own words.
"There is something about the very form and occasion of a letter--the possibility it offers, the chance to be as open and tentative and uncertain as one likes and also the chance to formulate certain ideas, very precisely--if...
Carrington's Letters
Her Art, Her Loves, Her Friendships
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2017
Carrington's beguiling letters take us beyond the Bloomsbury group to discuss sexual mores, how to be an artist, and what it is to be truly oneself.
Known only by her surname, Dora Carrington was the star of her year at the Slade School of Fine Art, and was friends with some of the greatest...
by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2019
13 Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson
English Traits
Essays 1st Series
Essays Second Series
Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Excursions
May-Day
Nature
Poems
Representative Men
Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám and Salámán and Absál
The Conduct of Life
The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Oxford Book of American Essays
by Mikhail Bulgakov
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2013
This selection from the diaries and letters of the Bulgakovs, mostly translated for the first time into English, provides an insightful glimpse into a fascinating period of Russian history and literature, telling the tragic tale of the fate of an artist under a totalitarian regime. The career of Mikhail...
The Curious Letters of Mervyn Mudal
Mervyn’s comical correspondence with the famous including; Tanya Plibersek, Nick Farr-Jones, Tony Abbott, Maggie Beer, Clive Palmer, David Cameron, Alan Jones, the Harrods’ CEO and many more.
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Mr and Mrs Mudal have found life quite puzzling since their move to the Sunshine Coast. Having been farmers in Goondiwindi for most of their lives, their new more sophisticated life has been a challenge. Mervyn is not one to sit back and wonder, so he becomes a prolific letter writer. His letters explain...