The author's journals. Both volumes in a single file. According to Wikipedia: "Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804 1864) was an American novelist and short story writer... Much of Hawthorne's writing centers ……続きを見る
著者:John Steinbeck
出版社: Penguin Publishing Group
発売日: 2000年01月01日
John Steinbeck wrote The Grapes of Wrath during an astonishing burst of activity between June and October of 1938. Throughout the time he was creating his greatest work, Steinbeck faithfully kept a ……続きを見る
Is Wilber Winkle a consumer advocate extraordinaire or just a nut with too much time on his hands? Whatever the verdict, this hilarious collection of complaint letters to American corporations and t……続きを見る
From the private papers of Mark Twain and Mozart to those of Robert Browning and Nelson, Love Letters of Great Men collects together some of the most romantic letters in history.
Part of the Macmill……続きを見る
This vintage book comprises a fascinating collection of Bonaparte's letters; selected, translated, and edited by J. M. Thompson. This anthology forms one of the most truthful and interesting collect……続きを見る
著者:Rainer Maria Rilke
出版社: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
発売日: 2011年02月16日
The ten letters collected here are arguably the most famous and beloved letters of our century. Written when Rainer Maria Rilke was himself still a young man with most of his greatest work before hi……続きを見る
Miroslawa was a citizen and student of Poland during the rule of a military dictatorship. 1984 was the year after my graduation from college at UNC-Chapel Hill. An avid shortwave radio listener, I w……続きを見る
著者:Hermann Hesse
出版社: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
発売日: 2013年01月22日
Throughout his life, Herman Hesse was a devoted letter writer. He corresponded, not just with friends and family, but also with his readers. From his letters home from the seminary at age fourteen, ……続きを見る
著者:John Steinbeck
出版社: Penguin Publishing Group
発売日: 2000年01月01日
"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 prepar……続きを見る
In 1947, Manhattan socialite Barbara Mundy left a life of privilege and travelled deep into the interior of Labrador, as a volunteer with the Grenfell Mission. She quickly became enamoured with the ……続きを見る
著者:Simon Garfield
出版社: Penguin Publishing Group
発売日: 2013年11月14日
The New York Times bestselling author of Just My Type and On the Map offers an ode to letter writing and its possible salvation in the digital age.
Few things are as excitingーand potentially life-c……続きを見る
'I was much entertained last summer with a tame bat, which would take flies out of a person's hand.' Gilbert White's Natural History of Selborne (1789) reveals a world of wonders in nature. Over a p……続きを見る
著者:James Wright
出版社: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
発売日: 2005年08月17日
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 tenta……続きを見る
A chronicle of travels, some homely some exotic, from the man who can make a schoolboy holiday in Swanage as colourful as a walk in the Hindu Kush.
Eric Newby's life of travel began in 1919, on pram……続きを見る
'A delightful book, full of amusing and charming stories' THE TIMES
'Daphne du Maurier has no equal' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH
'An intimate view of a creative personality . . . as richly evocative as any of ……続きを見る
著者:Franz Kafka
出版社: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
発売日: 2013年06月26日
**More than two decades of letters from one of the greatest writers of the twentieth centuryーthe author of The Metamorphosis and The Trialーto the people in his life, from his years as a student in……続きを見る
Written from Wilde's prison cell at Reading Gaol to his friend and lover Lord Alfred Douglas, De Profundis explodes the conventions of the traditional love letter and offers a scathing indictment of……続きを見る
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This social history records the daily life of the English people from the time of the Norman Conquest to our own.
Based on diaries, letters, memoirs, off……続きを見る
Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950), known by his pen name George Orwell, was an English novelist and journalist. His work is marked by clarity, intelligence and wit, awareness of soc……続きを見る
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'An absorbing volume' - The Spectator
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First published in 1989, A Particular Friendship is a collection of letters following Dirk Bogarde's first four memoirs.
'London……続きを見る
Writers of letters to The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald are poets, dreamers and provocateurs. The overwhelming majority is in search of a better world, even if some disguise their aspiration in ……続きを見る
Books for All Kinds of Readers. ReadHowYouWant offers the widest selection of on-demand accessible format editions on the market today. Our 7 different sizes of EasyRead™ are optimized by increasing……続きを見る
To mark the 20th anniversary of Kenneth Williams’ death, a beautiful coffee table book celebrating his life, including never-before-seen photographs, sketches and personal testimony from Williams’ c……続きを見る
The international bestselling record of a German Jew in Nazi Germany.
'Deserves to stand beside the diary of Anne Frank as a day-to-day description of the sufferings of the victims of Hitler's evil ……続きを見る
James has a great life: a successful career, a loving husband and two beautiful daughters. However, everything changes when he gets a phone call from a hospital informing him that his mother has wee……続きを見る