Essays Letters category: 7676 books
Über die Schönheit häßlicher Bilder
Essays zu Kunst und Ästhetik
Language: German
Release Date: March 3, 2014
»Ein Vademecum für Romantiker unserer Zeit" ist der Untertitel der Sammlung von Essays, die Max Brod mit 29 Jahren 1913 bei Kurt Wolff in Leipzig veröffentlichte. Die Verbindung von Romantik und Moderne kommt in dieser Sammlung nirgends deutlicher zum Ausdruck als in dem brillanten Essay zu Robert...
Käuze und Kathedralen
Geschichten, Essays und Marginalien
Language: German
Release Date: September 25, 2014
Gesammelte Schriften der Malerin, Essayistin und Kunstgelehrten Anita Albus.Ihre filigranen kleinformatigen Gemälde und ihre kunsthistorischen Essays haben Anita Albus berühmt gemacht. "In den Bildern von Anita Albus sehen wir die Dinge auf eine Weise, die wir verlernt oder vergessen hatten."...
by Vincent Van Gogh
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2003
A new selection of Vincent Van Gough's letters, based on an entirely new translation, revealing his religious struggles, his fascination with the French Revolution, his search for love and his involvement in humanitarian causes.
by J.R.R. Tolkien
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2014
This collection will entertain all who appreciate the art of masterful letter writing. The Letters of J.R.R Tolkien sheds much light on Tolkien's creative genius and grand design for the creation of a whole new world: Middle-earth. Featuring a radically expanded index, this volume provides a valuable...
by Mario Vargas Llosa
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2011
Mario Vargas Llosa condenses a lifetime of writing, reading, and thought into an essential manual for aspiring writers. Drawing on the stories and novels of writers from around the globe-Borges, Bierce, Céline, Cortázar, Faulkner, Kafka, Robbe-Grillet-he lays bare the inner workings of fiction,...
A Literate Passion
Letters of Anaïs Nin & Henry Miller: 1932–1953
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 1989
A “lyrical, impassioned” document of the intimate relationship between the two authors that was first disclosed in Henry and June (Booklist).
This exchange of letters between the two controversial writers—Anaïs Nin, renowned for her candid and personal diaries, and Henry Miller, author of...
What There Is to Say We Have Said
The Correspondence of Eudora Welty and William Maxwell
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2011
Letters revealing a lost literary world—and a unique friendship between a brilliant author and a New Yorker editor.
For over fifty years, Eudora Welty and William Maxwell, two of our most admired writers, penned letters to each other. They shared their worries about work and family, literary...
by Rainer Maria Rilke, Lou Andreas-Salomé, Edward Snow
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2008
"Immensely readable...a significant piece of scholarship."—Fred Volkmer, New York Sun
He would become one of the most important poets of the twentieth century; she a muse of Europe's fin-de-siecle thinkers and artists. In this collection of letters, a finalist for the PEN USA translation...
Under the Sun
The Letters of Bruce Chatwin
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2011
"Wonderful...the closest we are ever going to get to a Chatwin autobiography."
-William Dalrymple, The Times Literary Supplement (London)
The celebrated author of such beloved works as In Patagonia and The Songlines, Bruce Chatwin was a nomad whose desire for adventure and enlightenment...
Steinbeck
A Life in Letters
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1989
"Surely his most interesting, plausibly his most memorable, and . . . arguably his best book" -The New York Times Book Review
For John Steinbeck, who hated the telephone, letter-writing was a preparation for work and a natural way for him to communicate his thoughts on people he liked...
My Dear Li
Correspondence, 1937-1946
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
Personal letters reveal the quandary of a prominent German physicist during the Nazi years and the strength he shared with his loving wife Nobel Prize–winning physicist Werner Heisenberg lived far from his wife, Elisabeth, during most of the Second World War. An eminent scientist, Werner headed Germany’s...
Wallis and Edward, Letters: 1931-37
The Intimate Correspondence of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2012
Michael Bloch's edition of the intimate correspondence of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, from the moment they met in 1931 up to their marriage in 1937, also containing Wallis Simpson's diary of their affair in form of her weekly letters to her aunt in Washington, was a sensational bestseller when...
Behind the Lines
Powerful and Revealing American and Foreign War Letters---and One Man's Search to Find Them
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2005
From the editor of the phenomenal New York Times bestseller War Letters comes an even more powerful, more revealing collection of rare and previously-unpublished letters from every major war in American history -- all discovered during Andrew Carroll's extraordinary three-year journey throughout the U.S. and to thirty-five countries around the world."
by Rainer Maria Rilke
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
'What matters is to live everything. Live the questions for now.'
A hugely influential collection for writers and artists of all kinds, Rilke's profound and lyrical letters to a young friend advise on writing, love, sex, suffering and the nature of advice itself.
One of 46 new books...