Ro - Essays & Letters 1

In this warm and vibrant work of memoir and criticism, a young writer forges a friendship with Philip Guston, one of the most influential and controversial painters of the twentieth century. The lat……続きを見る

Esta edición digital en formato ePub se ha realizado a partir de una edición impresa digitalizada que forma parte de los fondos de la Biblioteca Nacional de España. El proyecto de creación de ePubs ……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

'The Love Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning & Robert Browning' gathers the intimate correspondences between two of Victorian England's most celebrated poets, offering an unprecedented glimpse in……続きを見る

‘The infantry is only a few metres ahead of us when suddenly, on the left of our tank, a Russian stands up. The swine had pretended to be dead when our infantry came past him! That’s an old classic,……続きを見る

The anthology 'Nathaniel Hawthorne: Letters, Diaries, Reminiscences & Extensive Biographies' offers a multifaceted exploration into the personal and literary spheres of one of America's canonical wr……続きを見る

WINNER OF THE VICTORIAN PREMIER'S LITERARY PRIZE FOR LITERATURE AND FOR NON-FICTION 2019 Where have I come from? From the land of rivers, the land of waterfalls, the land of ancient chants, the land……続きを見る

A new collection of poetry from an American literary legend, her first in twenty-five years Joyce Carol Oates is one of our most insightful observers of the human heart and mind, and, with her acute……続きを見る

In "A Letter Book," George Saintsbury curates an exquisite collection of correspondence that spans centuries and cultures, illuminating the evolution of letter writing as both an art form and a vita……続きを見る

Saint Ambrose, also known as Aurelius Ambrosius, is one of the four original doctors of the Church. He was the Bishop of Milan and became one of the most important theological figure of the 4th cent……続きを見る

The Romantic Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning & Robert Browning is a meticulously curated collection that transcends mere historical interest to provide a rich tapestry of 19th century romantic……続きを見る

Richard Blechynden was a surveyor, architect, and builder in early colonial Bengal. This volume and its companion (Sentiment and Self) use 80 volumes of his diaries and other archival material along……続きを見る

The Lost Diaries is a wide-ranging anthology of the world's greatest diarists, each of them channelled onto paper through the considerable psychic force that is Craig Brown. Arranged on a day-to-day……続きを見る

A Kansas Notable Book Finalist: High Plains Book Award At the long-term care facility where Robert Rebein’s father lands after a horrific car crash, a shadow box hangs next to each room, its content……続きを見る

Seit Harry Rowohlt 1997 seine für lange Zeit letzte Kolumne in der »Zeit« veröffentlichte, nahm das jammervolle Gezeter kein Ende: Warum SCHREIBT er nicht mehr? ER. Tat er aber doch, unaufhörlich, b……続きを見る

El autor es médico y Capitán de Yate. En el verano de 2012, junto a Luis Espejo, también Capitán de Yate y ambos navegantes aficionados, dio la vuelta a la península ibérica a vela en una travesía q……続きを見る

Emilie Davis was a free African American woman who lived in Philadelphia during the Civil War. She worked as a seamstress, attended the Institute for Colored Youth, and was an active member of her c……続きを見る

Les horreurs accomplies dans ces trente derniers mois ont rudement secoué les âmes d’Occident. Le martyre de la Belgique, de la Serbie, de la Pologne, de tous les pauvres pays de l’Ouest et de l’Est……続きを見る

Extrait : "S'il n'était pas donné à tous, dans l'antiquité, d'aller à Corinthe, suivant le célèbre proverbe qui nous est resté : "Non datur omnibus adire Corinthum", il en était de même pour aller a……続きを見る

Ce livre est parfaitement mis en page pour une lecture sur liseuse électronique. Extrait : Bruxelles, samedi 6 juillet. ー Parti pour Bruxelles avec Jenny, à huit heures, et nous étions arrivés à ci……続きを見る

Ce livre est parfaitement mis en page pour une lecture sur liseuse électronique. Extrait : Monsieur, Après avoir fait un grand siège et deux petis et avoir esté trois semaines en Flandre sans équipa……続きを見る

A comprehensive account of the author's entire career through the lens of her recently published diaries With the publication of Susan Sontag's diaries, the development of her career can now be eval……続きを見る

A collection of essays, beginning with ruminations on ethics. The book starts: "The problem of education is twofold: first to know, and then to utter. Every one who lives any semblance of an inner l……続きを見る

A series of letters written from Samoa in the 1890s. According to Wikipedia: "Robert Louis (Balfour) Stevenson ( 1850 - 1894), was a Scottish novelist, poet, and travel writer, and a leading represe……続きを見る

Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce was born in Meigs County, Ohio, United States in 1842. Bierce is critically best remembered for his fiction and many other writings are also generally regarded as some of the……続きを見る

Il sangue e la violenza hanno costituito, per molti, quasi naturale paradigma della grande rivoluzione, l'orizzonte di significato entro cui collocare le traiettorie giacobine e sanculotte dei suoi ……続きを見る

Reconstituer son passé en découvrant des lettres oubliées Pendant longtemps, j’ai su peu de choses de Jeanne, ma grand-mère maternelle, décédée alors que j’avais quatre ans. Et puis, récemment, je l……続きを見る

After a period of forced exile and solitary wandering brought about by his radical views on religion and politics, Jean-Jacques Rousseau returned to Paris in 1770. Here, in the last two years of his……続きを見る

Unterwegs in den Krisengebieten der Welt – wie gehen Menschen mit Krieg und Gewalt um, was verändert sich angesichts des fremden Leids im Berichterstatter, welche Rolle kommt dem Zeugen zu? Carolin ……続きを見る

'Hang on - it's a wild ride' Meryl Streep 'Brilliant, concretely realised social history as much as a fabulous odyssey, and I read it in a mad frenzy' Stephen Fry 'Indiscreet, brilliantly observed, ……続きを見る