Essays & Letters 38

The first two volumes of the Correspondance générale d'Helvétius inspired international acclaim. Now the third volume offers us further insight into a variety of aspects of life in eighteenth-centur……続きを見る

The Earlier Letters of John Stuart Mill, published in two volumes in 1963, were well received by critics and scholars alike. The publication of these four volumes of later letters completes this edi……続きを見る

These volumes of Mill's letters have been awaited eagerly by all scholars in the field of nineteenth-century studies. They inaugurate most auspiciously the edition of the Collected Works of John Stu……続きを見る

Post-Confederation Ottawa sets the scene for this fascinating biography of a literary couple. The marriage of Annie Howells and Achille Fréchette in 1877 brought together two literary families and t……続きを見る

This second volume of the Correspondance générale d'Helvétius covers the period of the publication and reception of Helvétius' controversial first work, De l'Esprit (1758). It begins with a letter o……続きを見る

Una miscellanea di racconti, di immagini e di altre cose. Gli argomenti trattati sono: Mitologia: Prometeo - Prometeo – Sezione Iconografica: Vulcano incatena Prometeo, Prometeo plasma l'uomo, Prome……続きを見る

‘My future mother-in-law burst into tears when she heard her son was to marry an actress. There’s still something disturbing, I grant you, about the word “actress”. If an MP or some other outstandin……続きを見る

While this book has been written in such a way as to stand by itself unaided, it explores some of the basic themes of The Gods of Our Time by the same author and can therefore also be taken as a seq……続きを見る

Finding heaven in the New Hampshire Woods Seven short articles about a writer's magical stay at The MacDowell Colony, America's first and most celebrated artists' residency. An intimate peek into t……続きを見る

For most women, a visit to the OB-GYN is a dreaded experience. In a book that is as eye-opening as it is compelling, retired OB-GYN Douglas Edwin Heritage invites us to share the joy, humor, and tra……続きを見る

Classic collection of letters. According to Wikipedia: "Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus, born Gaius Caecilius or Gaius Caecilius Cilo (61 AD ca. 112 AD), better known as Pliny the Younger, was a la……続きを見る

A collection of essays, beginning with ruminations on ethics. The book starts: "The problem of education is twofold: first to know, and then to utter. Every one who lives any semblance of an inner l……続きを見る

From the Preface: "Plutarch, who was born at Chaeronea in Boeotia, probably about A.D. 50, and was a contemporary of Tacitus and Pliny, has written two works still extant, the well-known _Lives_, an……続きを見る

Short essay. According to Wikipedia: "Robert Louis (Balfour) Stevenson ( 1850 - 1894), was a Scottish novelist, poet, and travel writer, and a leading representative of Neo-romanticism in English li……続きを見る

From the Translator's Note: "Of the eighteen hundred and ninety letters published by Chekhov's family I have chosen for translation these letters and passages from letters which best to illustrate C……続きを見る

A series of letters written from Samoa in the 1890s. According to Wikipedia: "Robert Louis (Balfour) Stevenson ( 1850 - 1894), was a Scottish novelist, poet, and travel writer, and a leading represe……続きを見る

According to Wikipedia: "Robert Louis (Balfour) Stevenson ( 1850 - 1894), was a Scottish novelist, poet, and travel writer, and a leading representative of Neo-romanticism in English literature. He ……続きを見る

Volume 3 of the Complete Works of Plutarch. According to Wikipedia: "Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus (c. AD 46 - 120 ー commonly known in English as Plutarch ー was a Roman historian (of Greek ethnicity)……続きを見る

Carl Lavin was a high school senior when Pearl Harbor was attacked. The Canton, Ohio, native was eighteen when he enlisted, a decision that would take him with the US Army from training across the U……続きを見る

Термин «эссе» лишь приблизительно определяет тот уникальный жанр, в котором пишет Ольга Шамборант. Ее миниатюры, колеблющиеся в жанровом отношении от стихов в прозе до ядовитой публицистики, несут о……続きを見る

From the private papers of Anne Boleyn and Emily Dickinson to those of Empress Josephine and Queen Victoria, Love Letters of Great Women is an anthology of some of the most romantic letters in histo……続きを見る

Segunda edición de las cartas y autobiografía de la escritora cubana, publicadas, según su editor, en la creencia firmísima de que serán eternamente modelos del bien decir, mientras haya nación que ……続きを見る

A timeless selection of some of Charles Bukowski’s best unpublished and uncollected poems Charles Bukowski was a prolific writer who produced countless short stories, novels, and poems that have rea……続きを見る

Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce was born in Meigs County, Ohio, United States in 1842. Bierce is critically best remembered for his fiction and many other writings are also generally regarded as some of the……続きを見る

This exceptional collection provides new insight into the life of North Carolina writer and activist Paul Green (1894–1981), the first southern playwright to attract international acclaim for his so……続きを見る

In 1855, Walt Whitman self-published the first edition of Leaves of Grass, a visionary collection of twelve poems. Leaves of Grass is a celebration of life, nature, humanity, and the uniquely Americ……続きを見る

Échanges entre mère et fille “ L'hirondelle vient de s'envoler emportant avec elle un peu du fil de mes pensées. Je ne voyais de toute manière plus grand-chose à t'écrire. Juste encore une dernière ……続きを見る

Beginn der großen Fühmann-Briefausgabe Auf sieben Bände und über 4 000 Seiten ist die Ausgabe der Briefe Franz Fühmanns angelegt, die in den nächsten Jahren erscheinen wird. Bisher sind nur einige d……続きを見る

“The Letters of Sylvia Plath underscores Plath’s jaw-dropping output, her rapid growth from merely talented to singular voice. . . . The result is a comprehensive portrait of the artist as a young w……続きを見る

Publicada por primera vez en 1948, Ciudadela reúne las notas que Saint-Exupéry dejó inéditas cuando desapareció en 1944 sobre Francia en misión de guerra. Con la voz de un príncipe del desierto, a q……続きを見る