Matthias Storck "weiß genau: Geschichte lebt durch Geschichten. Durch persönliche Erlebnisse und Erfahrungen. Deshalb erzählt er sie uns, ganz direkt, sehr emotional, schonungslos offen. Er nimmt un……続きを見る
Als sich der Chirurg und die Kinderärztin Dr. Klaus und Dr. Martina John vor zehn Jahren anschickten, ein modernes Krankenhaus für die peruanischen Indios zu bauen, hielten viele sie für verrückt. O……続きを見る
In the summer of 1936, Ezra Pound agreed to take on the role of European Correspondent for a newly launched travel journal entitled Globe: The International Magazine. Ezra Pound and 'Globe' Magazine……続きを見る
Longtime friends Helen Levine and Oonagh Berry decided they missed the tradition of "real" letters. The obvious solution for them was to initiate a correspondence project. Their goal? To write each ……続きを見る
The story goes, apocryphal perhaps, that one day the Ugandan dictator, Idi Amin, told his foreign minister that the country's name must be changed to Idi, and he should inform the UN and all other i……続きを見る
出版社: University Press of Mississippi
発売日: 2012年11月28日
Katherine Anne Porter (1890–1980) produced a relatively small body of fiction, but she wrote thousands and thousands of letters. The present selection of 135 unexpurgated letters, written to seventy……続きを見る
出版社: University Press of Mississippi
発売日: 2015年07月08日
Tell about Night Flowers presents previously unpublished letters by Eudora Welty, selected and annotated by scholar Julia Eichelberger. Welty published many of her best-known works in the 1940s: A C……続きを見る
Ernest Renan (1823-1892) est un écrivain, philologue, philosophe et historien français. Il se montre en général inquiet pour l'avenir de l'humanité, craignan……続きを見る
The seventh book in the best-selling series of Unpublished Letters, this is a year in review made up of the wry and astute observations of the unpublished Telegraph letter writers.
In a year in whic……続きを見る
Quelque peine que se donnent certains esthéticiens modernes, pour établir, contrairement à la croyance générale, que les arts de l’imagination et du sentiment n’ont point pour objet le plaisir, et p……続きを見る
Ce livre aurait pu se passer de commentaire, il dit suffisamment par lui-même ce qu’il est, son but. Il essaie de porter les questions de l’Au delà et des forces inconnues sur un terrain respectable……続きを見る
Daniel Defoe earned the title 'The Father of the Novel' when he wrote "Robinson Crusoe" - the first example of the modern popular novel as we know it.
He followed this success up with a huge number ……続きを見る
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2016 UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN QUEENSLAND HISTORY BOOK AWARD
The previously untold story of an extraordinary man and a great war photographer.
Cameras were banned at the Western Fro……続きを見る
Letter from China is a poignant and irreverent diary of the author's yearlong (2001-2) experience of teaching English to college students in Beijing, People’s Republic of China. From the very first ……続きを見る
著者:Owen Jones
出版社: Megan Publishing Services
発売日: 2015年10月21日
This book is for all those authors who dread publishing their books whether it be in printed or electronic format or both. I have published well over a hundred books to all the major printers and di……続きを見る
The warm, funny memoir of Gregor Fisher, the much loved Scottish actor best known for Rab C. Nesbitt, told as he uncovers his dramatic family history.
Growing up in the Glasgow suburbs, Gregor was 1……続きを見る
出版社: University of Washington Press
発売日: 2013年09月29日
In 1846, French Canadian-born A. M. A. Blanchet was named the first Catholic bishop of Walla Walla in the area soon to become Washington Territory. He arrived at Fort Walla Walla in late September 1……続きを見る
著者:Athol E Varley
出版社: Memoirs Publishing
発売日: 2015年07月01日
Athol Varley already had a pilot’s licence when he joined the RAF in 1941, but his eyesight precluded him from flying in combat. Instead a disappointed Athol spent much of the war bored, frustrated ……続きを見る
Reconstituer son passé en découvrant des lettres oubliées
Pendant longtemps, j’ai su peu de choses de Jeanne, ma grand-mère maternelle, décédée alors que j’avais quatre ans. Et puis, récemment, je l……続きを見る
Chroniques du tour de la Méditerranée par voie de terre
En 2008, durant six mois, l’écrivain Blaise Hofmann a fait le tour de la Méditerranée en livrant ses impressions (textes et photos) dans des c……続きを見る
Un voyage en moto entre Orient et Occident
Octobre 2014. Bien que Daesh soit aux portes du Kurdistan irakien, je conduis toujours ma moto à Erbil, les cheveux au vent, comme un pied de nez ultime à ……続きを見る
著者:Ursula Mahlendorf
出版社: Penn State University Press
発売日: 2015年10月13日
While we now have a great number of testimonials to the horrors of the Holocaust from survivors of that dark episode of twentieth-century history, rare are the accounts of what growing up in Nazi Ge……続きを見る
* * * WINNER OF THE 2014 NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS POPULAR NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR * * *
'I adored this book, and I could quote from it forever. It's real, odd, life-affirming, sharp, loving, and co……続きを見る
National Book Critics Circle Award–winning author Penelope Fitzgerald's The Bookshop is "a marvelously piercing fiction" (Times Literary Supplement), short-listed for the Booker Prize and a classic ……続きを見る
著者:John Steinbeck
出版社: Penguin Publishing Group
発売日: 2000年01月01日
Each working day from January 29 to November 1, 1951, John Steinbeck warmed up to the work of writing East of Eden with a letter to the late Pascal Covici, his friend and editor at The Viking Press.……続きを見る
著者:Bruce Chatwin
出版社: Penguin Publishing Group
発売日: 2011年02月17日
"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 ……続きを見る
**'This invaluable collection of over 200 letters by the late Nouwen (The Wounded Healer), a beloved author, pastor, and priest, provides insight into his personal struggles, insecurities, and faith……続きを見る
Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d’Universalis
Promoteurs du naturalisme et du japonisme, écrivains, essayistes, bibliophiles et collectionneurs d’art enragés, Edmond et Jules de G……続きを見る
When brothers Ethan and Hosea Grosh left Pennsylvania in 1849, they joined throngs of men from all over the world intent on finding a fortune in the California Gold Rush. Their search for wealth too……続きを見る