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
(This ebook does not include illustrations.)
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
_______________
'An absorbing volume' - The Spectator
_______________
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
著者:Joseph Roth
出版社: W. W. Norton & Company
発売日: 2012年01月09日
The monumentality of this biographical work further establishes Joseph Rothーwith Kafka, Mann, and Musilーin the twentieth-century literary canon.
Who would have thought that seventy-three years aft……続きを見る
著者:V. S. Naipaul
出版社: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
発売日: 2007年12月18日
An “extraordinary rich correspondence” (The New York Times Book Review) between a seventeen-year-old aspiring writer at Oxford who would go on to become a Nobel Prize winning author and his sacrific……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
In no other work does Franz Kafka reveal himself as in Letters to Milena, which begins as a business correspondence but soon develops into a passionate but doomed epistolary love affair. Kafka's Cze……続きを見る
著者:Mark DeVoto
出版社: University of Utah Press
発売日: 2012年10月31日
Bernard DeVoto (1897–1955) was a historian, critic, editor, professor, political commentator, and conservationist, and above all a writer of comprehensive skill. As a contributor for more than thirt……続きを見る
Journal of his stays in France and Italy, two volumes in one file. According to Wikipedia: "Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804 1864) was an American novelist and short story writer... Much of Hawthorne's wri……続きを見る
Explaining in an essay how you could show children how to do somethingーtake care of a pet, get along with siblings keep a room clean. Explain the process in terms a child would understand ye……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