Essays & Letters 15

This collection brings together the best of C.S. Lewis’s letters, many published for the first time. Arranged in chronological order, this final volume covers the years 1950 – the year ‘The Lion, th……続きを見る

Never before have the diaries and letters of young people from all sides of World War Two been woven together to provide an account of what it was like to grow up amidst the daily struggles and horr……続きを見る

‘My mother-in-law Annie lived with us for 17 years and was picture-book perfect.’ It took a while before the family realised that Annie was increasingly (as she would put it) 'Mutt and Jeff'. So Phy……続きを見る

Little Drifters can either be read as a full-length eBook or in 4 serialised eBook-only parts. This is PART 4 of 4 (Chapters 19-24 of 24). The harrowing true story of a travelling Irish family bonde……続きを見る

Meanderings of the Pen, a collection of short stories told in first person by the author as she brings us into the lives of many different characters. The tales are heartwarming, nostalgic, and surp……続きを見る

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Following Brave New World is the nonfiction work Brave New World Revisited, first published in 1958. It is a fascinating work in which Huxley uses his tremendous knowledge of human relations to comp……続きを見る

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

"Immensely readable...a significant piece of scholarship."ーFred Volkmer, New York Sun He would become one of the most important poets of the twentieth century; she a muse of Europe's fin-de-siècle ……続きを見る

Les histoires humoristiques sont d’importation américaine. En quoi elles diffèrent des histoires comiques et piquantes. Je ne prétends pas raconter une histoire dans toutes les règles de l’art. Je p……続きを見る

Short biographical essay. According to Wikipedia: "William Dean Howells (March 1, 1837 May 11, 1920) was an American realist author and literary critic... In 1858, he began to work at the Ohio State……続きを見る

"Amy Newman is one of the most gifted and original poets writing in America today."ーMartha Collins Each prose poem in this extraordinary volume is an impassioned letter to a nameless editor from a ……続きを見る

In the world of psychoanalysis, the late Otto Fenichel was pre-eminently distinguished for brilliant observation, tireless energy, and skill. Otto Fenichel's highly significant essays explore many s……続きを見る

I Remain Yours documents the past through the present by re-directing the epistolary form as a mode of cross-generational communication, exploring the reality that love and writing remain long after……続きを見る

Literary essays in the original French, covering such authors as Goethe, Byron, Balzac, James Fenimore Cooper, and Harriet Beecher Stowe. According to Wikipedia: "Amandine Aurore Lucile Dupin, Baron……続きを見る

Although Ruth Pitter (1897–1992) is not well known, her credentials as a poet are extensive, and in England from the mid-1930s to the mid-1970s she maintained a modest yet loyal readership. In total……続きを見る

***Prequel to Virtually Me - short story, only 6,000 words**** Kimberley has spent the better part of her adult life stuck in a dead-end marriage and a dead-end job. Now she’s in her forties, she’s……続きを見る

The complete Timothy Lea and Rosie Dixon confessions from the CONFESSIONS series, the brilliant sex comedies from the 70s, available for the first time in eBook. Save over 〓30 on the individual pur……続きを見る

This ebook is best viewed on a tablet device. Includes over 250 recipes, many from his BBC TV series Dish of the Day, Simple Suppers and Simple Cooking. From Nigel Slater, presenter of Dish of the D……続きを見る

This antiquarian volume contains Karel Capek's "Letters From Holland". It is a collection of sketches in words and pictures of the Netherlands written by the Czech author during his visit to a liter……続きを見る

This early work is a collection of Louisa May Alcott‘s letters, journals, and notes. Published a year after Alcott's death this is a truly unparalleled collection of her personal correspondence and ……続きを見る

This vintage book contains a collection of letters written by John Muir to Ezra S. Carr. Whilst he was at university, Muir was a frequent caller at Carr’s house. She was a botanist and lover of natu……続きを見る

"Letters from England" is a masterpiece of observation written by the famous Czech writer, Karel Capek. These humorous and insightful letters and drawings were designed to describe Europe's oldest d……続きを見る

Tea-Table Talk by Jerome K Jerome As the New York Times said in 1903, this lesser-known work by Jerome K. Jerome does not display "the wit of Congreve or even the glittering sort Mr. Jerome employs ……続きを見る

This collection of nearly three hundred letters gives us the life of Elia Kazan unfiltered, with all the passion, vitality, and raw honesty that made him such an important and formidable stage direc……続きを見る

According to Wikipedia: "Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria; 24 May 1819 22 January 1901) was the Queen regnant of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837, and the first Empres……続きを見る

The Marquis de Custine's unique perspective on a vast, fascinating country in the grip of oppressive tyranny In 1839, encouraged by his friend Balzac, Custine set out to explore Russia. His impressi……続きを見る

The sequel to Houlihan's "Hooliganism", this new book features Houlihan’s columns from the last six years as well as a foreword written by former 19th Ward Alderman and Cook County Sheriff Mike Shea……続きを見る

A biography of Borges, by his translator. Jorge Luis Borges, known as Georgie to his friends, married Elsa Astete Millán in 1967. Borges was sixty-eight years old at the time of the wedding; Elsa, a……続きを見る