Essays & Letters 54

"Yellow Rose" is a self-reflection. Kendra is releasing the burden of being a fatherless daughter. If you had a choice you would choose to have both parents present. Not all of us had that luxury. G……続きを見る

This is the annotated edition including a rare and extensive biographical essay on the author, as well as an introductory to the book written by George Parsons Lathrop. The series of passages from t……続きを見る

“[Plath’s] story is stirring, in sneaky, unexpected ways. . . . Look carefully and there’s a new angle here ー on how, and why, we read Plath today.”ー Parul Sehgal, New York Times Never before publ……続きを見る

"Franz Kafka : 1920 günlüğünden aforizmalar" başlıklarıyla iki ayrı bölümde yayınlanan aforizmaları Franz Kafka, Ekim 1917 ile Şubat 1920 arasında, kısa süren iki yaratıcılık döneminde yazmıştı. O t……続きを見る

This huge volume contains Mark Twains letters, starting from the year 1853, where he lived in New York and Phliadelphia, and ending with his last trip to Bermuda in the year of his death, 1910. His ……続きを見る

Notas de diarios, cartas, pensamientos, descripciones sirven al joven Justo Sierra para contarnos la vida de Antonio, un joven músico que abandona su lugar de origen en la costa para trasladarse a l……続きを見る

Part love letter to his adopted home city of Manchester, part critique of the arts and governing bodies (both specific and societal), Gerry’s eighth collection of autobiographical, domestic/fantasti……続きを見る

Lettere dal carcere è una raccolta postuma della corrispondenza intrattenuta da Antonio Gramsci coi propri familiari e amici durante il periodo della sua lunga detenzione nelle carceri italiane, del……続きを見る

Cortese Avvocato, ieri sera ho ritrovato fra le pagine del suo libro un poco di quella fraternità spirituale che la sua offerta mi rivela. Il rimpianto di ciò che fu, e l’ansia di ciò che non è anco……続きを見る

William Sharp (1855-1905) conducted one of the most audacious literary deceptions of his or any time. Sharp was a Scottish poet, novelist, biographer and editor who in 1893 began to write critically……続きを見る

Denostado en su día por «inmoral» e incluso por «ficticio», y a la vez aclamado como «un examen despiadado del yo que Rousseau habría envidiado», El diario de un hombre decepcionado (1919) de W. N. ……続きを見る

Philosopher, author, and lecturer Alan Watts (1915–1973) popularized Zen Buddhism and other Eastern philosophies for the counterculture of the 1960s. Today, new generations are finding his writings ……続きを見る

My aim … to rescue from oblivion the lives of ordinary people – Athol Fugard In 2005, Patricia Neate inherited a dusty Regency desk that had once belonged to her husband's great grandfather, George ……続きを見る

Je me suis souvent étonné de l’extrême fécondité de la presse, comment il pouvait se faire que tant de têtes sur lesquelles la nature semblait avoir laissé tomber la malédiction de la stérilité acco……続きを見る

Lucia Berlins Erzählungen, die zu den schönsten literarischen Wiederentdeckungen der letzten Jahre gehören, gehen auch deshalb so unter die Haut, weil sich in ihnen ihr eigenes wechselvolles Leben s……続きを見る

L'intégrale des œuvres d'Alfred de Musset en version eBook. Avec ses deux sommaires interactifs, le confort de lecture est total quel que soit votre support (tablette, liseuse ou écran d'ordinateur)……続きを見る

This memoir by Dave Mulligan is told through a compilation of short stories, poems, and essays, all of which originally were Facebook posts written in the middle of the night during relentless bouts……続きを見る

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This native Floridian author’s Southern roots were firmly in place before her adult life whirled through eight states and twenty-six moves with her husbandーa union lasting fifty-eight years. Gradua……続きを見る

La solitude offre à l’homme intellectuellement haut placé un double avantage : le premier, d’être avec soi-même, et le second de n’être pas avec les autres. On appréciera hautement ce dernier si l’o……続きを見る

Ultime lettere di Jacopo Ortis è un romanzo di Ugo Foscolo, considerato il primo romanzo epistolare della letteratura italiana, nel quale sono raccolte le lettere che il protagonista, Jacopo Ortis, ……続きを見る

Available for the first time in English, a moving prison correspondence between a husband and wife who resisted the Nazis. Tegel prison, Berlin, in the fall of 1944. Helmuth James von Moltke is awai……続きを見る

Ce livre est parfaitement mis en page pour une lecture sur liseuse électronique. Extrait : Tout le monde ici est extrêmement ému par la mort de M. de Morny. On commence, maintenant qu’il n’est plus,……続きを見る

Jane Austen demonstrated her mastery of the epistolary novel genre in "Lady Susan", which she wrote in 1795 but never published. Finally published in 1871, this early complete work describes the sch……続きを見る

The titanic choreographer, creator of memorable ballets, master of Broadway musicals, legendary show doctor and director, now revealed in his own words--the closest we will get to a memoir/autobiogr……続きを見る

La société est l’état naturel de l’homme... Toute société est un édifice qui a pour base un contrat et pour faîte une croyance... La croyance, c’est Dieu ; le contrat, c’est la loi... La loi est l’e……続きを見る

This is a unique account of the ways in which British veterans of the Second World War remembered, understood, and recounted their experiences of battle throughout the post-war period. Focusing on t……続きを見る

This hitherto unpublished first-hand witness account, written in 1968-9, tells the story of a privileged Polish woman whose life was torn apart by the outbreak of the Second World War and Soviet occ……続きを見る

These letters were written as the daily record of the work of a Unit of Red Cross nurses who were sent to France in May, 1917, in response to the request of the British authorities. The Unit, almost……続きを見る

L’amore è il sentimento che più di tutti ha ispirato gli uomini: l’amore sin dall’antichità ha costretto gli uomini a scrivere per trovare consolazione, sfogare un dolore, urlare di gioia, esprimere……続きを見る