Essays & Letters 22

Oscar Wilde's autobiographical work on suffering, self-realization, and the artistic process De Profundis (Latin for "from the depths") is Oscar Wilde's reconciliation from a life full of pleasure. ……続きを見る

Hermione, Countess of Ranfurly, kept a diary all her life. To War with Whitaker is an account of the most adventurous, most defiant and most valiant of those years. Hermione and Dan Ranfurly married……続きを見る

'Janet Frame's luminous words are the more precious because they were snatched from the jaws of the disaster of her early life. It is one of the classics of autobiography. She knew that a writer mus……続きを見る

When he died at the age of thirty-seven, Vincent van Gogh left a legacy of over two thousand artworks, for which he is now justly famous. But van Gogh was also a prodigious writer of lettersーmore t……続きを見る

'Dangerous as lucifer matches.' That was how Arthur Nicholls, Charlotte Brontë's husband for the last nine months of her life, described her letters. Full of acute observations, pithy character sket……続きを見る

"I want you to be fully present in your own life, a change agent who is not afraid to dare to be who you are. I wonder though, my dear sweet child, how I can mother you when I have not been able to ……続きを見る

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“Acclaimed writer Charles Bukowski turns his signature eye on the world of felines. A series of essays and poems all about cats, Bukowski’s classic funny and frank tone becomes, at times, even endea……続きを見る

“I am a girl, 13 years old, and a proper broncho buster. I can cook and do housework, but I just love to ride.” In letters written to the children’s pages of newspapers, we hear the clear and authen……続きを見る

Eagle Mindsーa selection from the correspondence between the Canadian composer and scholar Istvan Anhalt and his American counterpart George Rochbergーis a splendid chronicle and a penetrating analy……続きを見る

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The legendary Austro-Hungarian novelist and essayist, Joseph Roth, was born in Ukraine in 1894 and died tragically in Paris in 1939. These letters span the breadth of Roth's life, from the schoolboy……続きを見る

**THE FIRST MODERN LESBIAN 'The details of Anne's love affairs and flirtations are there, free from suppression or euphemism' GUARDIAN 'Engaging, revealing, at times simply astonishing' SARAH WATERS……続きを見る

Edinburgh-born James Boswell, at twenty-two, kept a daily diary of his eventful second stay in London from 1762 to 1763. This journal, not discovered for more than 150 years, is a deft, frank and ar……続きを見る

'They wanted me to give a concert; I wanted them to beg me. And so they did. I gave a concert.' Entertaining, touching and sharp-tongued letters between the great eighteenth-century composer and his……続きを見る

Dieses eBook: "Gespräche mit Goethe in den letzten Jahren seines Lebens" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen. Aus dem Buch: ……続きを見る

'If ever there was a book calculated to make a man in love with its author, this appears to me to be the book.' William Godwin, the author's future husband, was not alone in admiring Letters written……続きを見る

No marriage of a major twentieth-century writer is quite as beguiling as that of Vladimir Nabokov’s to Véra Slonim. She shared his delight at the enchantment of life’s trifles and literature’s treas……続きを見る

In this original study, Milne moves between close readings of letters, postcards and emails, and investigations of the material, technological infrastructures of these forms, to answer the question:……続きを見る

Gabrielle Roy was one of the most prominent Canadian authors of the twentieth century. Joyce Marshall, an excellent writer herself, was one of Roy's English translators. The two shared a deep and lo……続きを見る

Northrop Frye's status as one of the most influential critics and intellectuals of the twentieth century makes it difficult to gauge the personal qualities of the man behind the work. However, an in……続きを見る

Over a period of forty years, from 1947 to 1986, Margaret Laurence and Adele Wiseman wrote to each other constantly. The topics they wrote about were as wide-ranging as their interests and experienc……続きを見る

The cartulary of 1211 is the oldest surviving register produced by the chancery of the counts of Champagne. This first edition of the cartulary contains 121 letters received from the barons and prel……続きを見る

Extrait : "La dernière fois que j'ai pu vous envoyer de mes nouvelles, je vous ai promis de ne pas revenir en France avant d'avoir poussé jusqu'à Moscou ; depuis ce moment, vous ne pensez plus qu'à ……続きを見る

Deux femmes de la haute société échangent leurs impressions sur les hommes. Berthe de X… écrit à sa tante Geneviève de Z…depuis Étretat. Elle se plaint de la goujaterie, de la grossièreté et de l’im……続きを見る

Lettres de Diderot à mademoiselle Marie-Madeleine Jodin. 続きを見る

Extrait : "Je vais vous parler cette fois, mon ami, de ces temps innocents où le ciel était encore en commerce avec la terre, et ne dédaignait pas visiter ses enfants ; de ces premiers et vénérables……続きを見る

"Lettres de Henri Barbusse à sa femme, 1914-1917 est un recueil de correspondances intimes entre l'écrivain Henri Barbusse et sa femme, pendant les années de la Première Guerre mondiale. Ces lettres……続きを見る

Extrait : "Depuis deux jours j'ai vu beaucoup de choses : d'abord la mosquée tatare. Le culte des vainqueurs est aujourd'hui toléré dans un coin de la capitale des vaincus ; encore ne l'est-il qu'à ……続きを見る

Extrait : "Il faut vous fuir, mademoiselle, je le sens bien : j'aurais dû beaucoup moins attendre ; ou plutôt il fallait ne vous voir jamais. Mais que faire aujourd'hui ? Comment m'y prendre ? Vous ……続きを見る