Essays & Letters 19

Si les Canadiennes le voulaient - Laure Conan Aux Canadiennes Françaises Marie-Louise Félicité Angers, dite Laure Conan (1845 - 1924) est une écrivaine canadienne-française. Si les Canadiennes le vo……続きを見る

"A wonderful collection that gives Mozart a voice as a son, husband, brother and friend." ーNew York Times Book Review "Mozart's honesty, his awareness of his own genius and his contempt for authori……続きを見る

On a freezing winter’s night, a few hours before dawn on May 12, 1969, South African security police stormed the Soweto home of Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, activist and wife of the imprisoned Nelson ……続きを見る

EASY READING, easy living! I grandi classici della filosofia, rivisitati, per una più semplice interpretazione. Un ebook che rappresenta uno strumento importante per continuare a migliorarsi seguend……続きを見る

Amandine-Aurore-Lucile Dupin, later Baroness Dudevant was a French novelist and early feminist (prior to the invention of the word) who wrote under the pen name of George Sand. Her successful novels……続きを見る

M. A. Communay, le fondateur de la Revue historique du Béarn et de la Navarre, revue qui ne vécut, hélas  ! que ce que vivent les roses, l’espace d’un matin, avait form&eac……続きを見る

Scritto nella Cina del IV secolo avanti Cristo, l'Arte della Guerra di Sun Tzu, è senza dubbio una delle più antiche raccolte di suggerimenti di tecnica militare e, al tempo stesso, il più riconosci……続きを見る

Written in China in the 4th century BC, The Art of War, by Sun Tzu, is undoubtedly one of the oldest collections of military technique advice and at the same time, the most well recognized and the m……続きを見る

EASY READING, easy living! The great classics of philosophy, revisited, for an easier interpretation. An e-book that turns out to be incredibly topical, a precious source you can draw on to keep imp……続きを見る

Il vero potere è l'umiltà. "L'eloquenza eccessiva, dimostra debolezza". Ma soprattutto, "il vuoto... può contenere tutto!". Pensaci su! In questa raccolta tratta dai alcuni dei più celebri pensieri ……続きを見る

A French poet who also produced notable work as an essayist, art critic, and pioneering translator of Edgar Allan Poe. His most famous work, Les Fleurs du mal (The Flowers of Evil), expresses the ch……続きを見る

EASY READING.I grandi classici della filosofia, rivisitati, per una più semplice interpretazione. "Non si è mai troppo giovani né troppo vecchi per conoscere la felicità." Inizia così il cammino ver……続きを見る

Neera, pseudonimo di Anna Zuccari Radius (Milano, 7 maggio 1846 – Milano, 13 luglio 1918), è stata una scrittrice italiana. Nacque in una famiglia borghese da Fermo e da Maddalena Manusardi, che mor……続きを見る

Composto da Seneca nel 58 dopo Cristo, quando il filosofo aveva 54 anni, De Vita Beata, è un dialogo dedicato al fratello Gallione. Il tema così importante, ed esplorato anche da altri filosofi dell……続きを見る

A unique collection of more than 150 letters written to an Ohio serviceman during the American Civil War that offers glimpses of women’s lives as they waited, worked, and wrote from the Ohio home fr……続きを見る

"Poderia deixar de pensar? No aterro sanitário após secar os lençóis banhados em luz, abria meus olhos para uma vida mormente trágica na qual um sonho de evasão era impossível e por isso desejado. P……続きを見る

A short inspirational story about a man who was able to write, but who was unable to go out and talk to his readers at book signings. Its about how a woman came to his assistance and helped him alon……続きを見る

'I can never understand how the scribbles of such an ordinary person ... can possibly have value.' So wrote Nella Last in her diary on 2 September 1949. More than sixty years on, tens of thousands o……続きを見る

The hilarity of M*A*S*H meets the satire of Catch 22 in one distinctive Australian voice. 'We need to send our survey party there!' (pointing to map) 'But Colonel, we cain't do it. that's the most i……続きを見る

A text-only edition of the hilarious Letters of Not. A collection of remarkable and completely made-up correspondence from the great and the good across history. Many books have collated the excepti……続きを見る

A collection of remarkable and completely made-up correspondence from the great and the good across history. Many books have collated the exceptional letters and personal writing of the famous, offe……続きを見る

"I couldn't put it down ... like a jilted lover, when I reached the end I wanted more" Danielle Goldstein, Time Out Love Virtually is a funny, fast-paced and utterly absorbing novel, with plenty of ……続きを見る

It is very surprising that the Letters of Abelard and Heloise have not sooner appeared in English, since it is generally allowed, by all who have seen them in other languages, that they are written ……続きを見る

This illustrated journal uses colour metaphors throughout to represent physiological states and feelings: as such, it is best viewed on devices that can render images in colour. Uncover a very uncon……続きを見る

Wilde the writer is known to us from his plays and prose fiction, but apparently it was in his conversation that his genius reached its summit. His talk is lost and his autobiography was never writt……続きを見る

Book by Samuel Johnson, published in 1775. The Journey was the result of a three-month trip to Scotland that Johnson took with James Boswell in 1773. It contains Johnson's descriptions of the custom……続きを見る

A publishing sensation, the publication of Victor Klemperer's diaries brings to light one of the most extraordinary documents of the Nazi period. 'A classic ... Klemperer's diary deserves to rank al……続きを見る

When Wallis & Edward was first published in 1986, weeks after the death of the Duchess of Windsor, it caused a sensation: this was the story the world had been waiting for. For the first time, the s……続きを見る

A moving and personal account of a young woman’s experiences of the Second World War from the mother of Sir Tim Rice. Joan Rice had the same ambitions as many young women of her generation: she want……続きを見る

J. A. Baker’s extraordinary classic of British nature writing Despite the association of peregrines with the wild, outer reaches of the British Isles, The Peregrine is set on the flat marshes of the……続きを見る