D.O - Essays & Letters 1

In "Letters to His Son, Complete," Philip Dormer Stanhope, the Earl of Chesterfield, offers a collection of correspondences that provide profound insights into the art of communication, manners, and……続きを見る

A collection of letters between Arthur Conan Doyle (author and creator of Sherlock Holmes) and his mother, covering most of his life, written between 1867 and the year of her death in 1921. Doyle wa……続きを見る

Love letter - what phrase conjures up more intense feelings than that simple phrase? Most of us have received a love letter. Many of us have written a love letter. Some of those letters were tucked ……続きを見る

On 2nd May 1997, Tony Blair swept into Downing Street, ending almost twenty years of Conservative government and beginning a decade as Prime Minister. Bernard Donoughue, a Labour peer in the House o……続きを見る

L'ebook ripropone le lettere d'amore che due giovani scrittori e poeti, Guido Gozzano e Amalia Guglielminetti, si sono scambiate agli inizi del Novecento. Nelle lettere non solo l'amore è protagonis……続きを見る

In "Letters to Severall Persons of Honour," John Donne embarks on a series of eloquent and introspective correspondences, grappling with themes of love, loss, and the complexities of human relations……続きを見る

An elegantly designed, beautifully composed volume of personal letters from famous American men and women that celebrates the American Experience and illuminates the rich history of some of America’……続きを見る

On the same day that his wife gave birth to twins, Anthony Doerr received the Rome Prize, an award that gave him a year-long stipend and studio in Rome… ‘Four Seasons in Rome’ charts the repercussio……続きを見る

'I went & sat with W & walked backwards & forwards in the Orchard till dinner time - he read me his poem. I broiled Beefsteaks.' Dorothy Wordsworth's journals are a unique record of her life with he……続きを見る

This book is a collection of writings, drawings, and stuff from across all stages of my life.  I hope you will enjoy it thoroughly, while having a hearty laugh, something scrumptious to munch ……続きを見る

From the private papers of Jane Austen and Mozart to those of Anne Boleyn and Nelson, Love Letters of Great Men and Women collects together some of the most romantic letters in history. For some of ……続きを見る

Benedictine nun, poet and musician, Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179) was one of the most remarkable figures of the Middle Ages. She undertook preaching tours throughout the German empire at the age o……続きを見る

« Mon cher Fernand, Hier, il y a eu une attaque. Nous n’avons pas bougé. Cela ne nous a pas dispensés de recevoir des projectiles de toutes formes et de tous calibres. Heureusement, notre abri est e……続きを見る

Carrington's beguiling letters take us beyond the Bloomsbury group to discuss sexual mores, how to be an artist, and what it is to be truly oneself. Known only by her surname, Dora Carrington was th……続きを見る

**The next instalment in the acclaimed New Yorker 'decades' series featuring an all-star line-up of historical pieces from the 1960s alongside new pieces by current New Yorker staffers. The 1960s, t……続きを見る

Ya no se vaga y, mucho menos, se peregrina. El flâneur del siglo XIX es un desleído mito literario. Una palabra bella y perdida en la confusión de la Historia. Menos desdibujado su sentido que crist……続きを見る

Extrait : "Vous aimez les livres, mon cher ami ; mais comme vous avez le malheur de ne point habiter Paris, vous me demandez de vous tenir au courant des excursions que j'ai pu faire sur nos quais ;……続きを見る

¿Las cartas forman parte de su obra o es preferible destruirlas antes que dejar pistas para la posteridad de los secretos develados a sus destinatarios? En el caso de Andrés Caicedo (Cali, Colombia.……続きを見る

«Scrivetelo in tutte maiuscole: LAVORARE. Lavorare in continuazione. Imparate a conoscere questo mondo, questo universo; questa energia e questa materia, e lo spirito che attraversando l'energia e l……続きを見る

«Mio carissimo Odoardo, si è abbassata la temperatura e l'aria fresca mi fa pensare all'ormai prossimo inverno. Sarà ancora un inverno di guerra ? Dovremo trascorrerlo con questa grande pena in cuor……続きを見る

Le oltre trecento lettere raccolte in questo libro aiutano ad approfondire la profonda amicizia tra don Primo Mazzolari e don Guido Astori. Compagni di ordinazione, i due preti lombardi condividono ……続きを見る

Los dietarios de Marcos Ordoñez, escritos entre 2011 y 2016: la vida, la edad, el teatro, las lecturas, las canciones, las amistades... «Comienzas a tener “una cierta edad” cuando caes en la cuenta ……続きを見る

Assam verwendet für den Bibelschmuggel nach Somalia eine "sichere" Methode: Er legt sich in einen Sarg, unter den Leichnam. Kein Muslim wird es wagen, dort nachzuschauen. Er muss nur hin und wieder ……続きを見る

'Dear Mama, I am having a lovely time here. We play football every day here. The beds have no springs . . .' So begins the first letter that a nine-year-old Roald Dahl penned to his mother, Sofie Ma……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

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

From the author of The BFG, Matilda, James and the Giant Peach, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, and many more beloved classicsーa whimsical, witty, and revealing collection of the legendary c……続きを見る

“Representative Men is a collection of seven lectures by Ralph Waldo Emerson, published as a book of essays in 1850. The first essay discusses the role played by "great men" in society, and the rema……続きを見る

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*** Premium Ebook *** Mariana Alcoforado (* 22. April 1640 in Beja, Alentejo; † 28. Juli 1723 ebenda) war portugiesische Nonne und Schriftstellerin. Alcoforado werden die fünf schönsten Liebesbriefe……続きを見る