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Quercus Publishing The Germans and Europe: A Personal Frontline
Book SynopsisBased on a lifetime living in and reporting on Germany and Central Europe, award-winning journalist and author Peter Millar tackles the fascinating and complex story of the people at the heart of our continent. Focussing on nine cities (only six of which are in the Germany of today) he takes us on a zigzag ride back through time via the fall of the Berlin Wall through the horrors of two world wars, the patchwork states of the Middle Ages, to the splendour of Charlemagne and the fall of Rome, with side swipes at everything on the way, from Henry VIII to the Spanish Empire. Included are mini portraits of aspects of German culture from sex and money to food and drink. Not just a book about Germany but about Europe as a whole and how we got where we are today, and where we might be tomorrow.
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September Publishing One Fine Day: A Journey Through English Time
Book SynopsisA time-travelling, genealogical adventure, bringing pre-industrial, rural, eighteenth-century England vividly to life on the page. One day Ian Marchant, acclaimed author of books on music, railways and pubs, decided, as all men of a certain age must, to have a dig around his family history. Surprisingly quickly, a web search informed him that his seven-times-great great-grandfather, Thomas Marchant had left a detailed diary from 1714 to 1728. So far, so jolly ... Life-loving diarist Thom - who liked a drink and a game of cards - feels recognisably Marchant to Ian. With fascinating, immersive detail we learn about Thom's family farm and fishponds; about dung, horses and mud; about beer, the wife's nights out, his own job troubles and their shared worries for their children. But as Ian digs deeper beyond the Sussex diary's bucolic portrait he discovers a subtext - a family descended from immigrants, with anti-establishment politics, who are struggling with illness, political instability and cash crises - just as their country does three centuries on. 'When I was reflecting late one January evening on the differences between Thom and me, I realised the unbridgeable thing that comes between us is industrialisation. He lived right at its beginning, while I am living somewhere towards its end. Old Thom Marchant was one of the last people before industrialisation to understand how his world worked - and how to be largely self-sufficient in it. He knew where his food came from, his fuel, his water, his clothes. He knew how the welfare system worked, and was part of its administration; he knew who looked after the roads, too. He collected taxes. He was not separate from the system, but part of it.' Rich with immersive detail, One Fine Day draws a living portrait of Marchant family life in the 1720s and how their England (rainy, muddy, politically turbulent, illness-ridden) became the England of the 2020s.Trade Review'Elegiac, consistently funny, deeply moving.' - Richard Beard; 'Ian Marchant is one of England's most original writers. One Fine Day is a masterwork.' - Monique Roffey; ‘I enjoyed it hugely, and was strangely moved.' - Deborah Moggach; ‘Bloody marvellous.’ - New Statesman
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Crumps Barn Studio Letters From Your Neighbour Far Away: a powerful
Book Synopsis"Dear neighbour, What a good idea. People don't talk any more ... From your neighbour a long distance away" A connection is forged between people a world apart. Insightful and full of humour, this is a beautiful portrait of a community built by letters.Trade ReviewPraise for Beverley Gordon: "I wanted to saviour every word and pace my way through, but I couldn’t put it down ... this collection is relevant and thought provoking, I laughed I smiled and I thought it was deep ... what a great little read" ~ 5 stars
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Chiselbury Publishing Mountain Gunner
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Life Graduate Publishing Group Papas Tagebuch - Seine unerzählte Geschichte:
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Sprigleaf Pty Ltd Forever Remain: Roxton Letters Volume Two:: A
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Hachette Livre - BNF Oeuvres Complètes de J. J. Rousseau. T. 6 Contrat
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Salzwasser-Verlag Gmbh Friedrich Nietzsches Gesammelte Briefe
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Tredition Classics Warhaftige Historia
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Elsinor Verlag e.K. 6000 Days
Book SynopsisIn 1981 ten prisoners died on hunger strike in a jail, ten miles west of Belfast. First called Long Kesh during internment (1971-1971), then the Maze Prison, then the H-Blocks, it was rarely out of the national and international news forty years ago, especially when one of the prisoners, Bobby Sands, was elected as an MP before he died after sixty-six days without food.Jim (Jaz) McCann was an eyewitness to these events. Arrested at twenty after attempting to kill a police officer, he was sentenced to life imprisonment. He and hundreds of others refused to wear a prison uniform, protested that they were political prisoners, and were locked in their cells, where they wore only a blanket, for over four years in grim conditions.Jaz McCann knew several of the hunger strikers and in this remarkable testimony he recalls his life in the IRA, the deprivation of seventeen years behind bars, his friends and comrades, including several of the hunger strikers, his participation in the mass prison breakout in 1983, and the electoral rise of Sinn Féin following these events which had a profound effect on the subsequent political complexion of Ireland.It is an immensely honest and raw account, full of pathos and dark humour, from a former combatant and is an important contribution to Troubles' literature.
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Museum Tusculanum Press J P E Hartmann og hans kreds: Volume 4 -- En
Book SynopsisThis fourth volume of J P E Hartmann og hans kreds. En komponistfamilies breve 1780-1900 (J.P.E. Hartmann and his Circle. The Correspondence of a Composer Family 1780-1900) contains hitherto unknown letters which have been privately owned until now. The particular focus is on J P E Hartmann's son Emil Hartmann and his struggle for recognition as a composer and not because of his relatives. The letters elucidate this struggle and provide a wealth of information on both the everyday life and the musical scene in the second half of the 19th century in which Emil Hartmann travelled a great deal in Germany where he was a well-known figure. Thus, letters from German celebrities, such as Richard Strauss and Max Bruch are included.
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HarperCollins India Letters to Mother: Translated from the Gujarati
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Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd. EVERY MOTHER IS A CEO: MANAGEMENT LESSONS FROM MY
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Double 9 Books Letters Of A Javanese Princess
Book SynopsisLetters of a Javanese Princess' is a poignant and inspiring collection of correspondences written by Raden Adjeng Kartini, an Indonesian noblewoman, and feminist icon. Composed in the early 20th century, the book provides a unique glimpse into the life and aspirations of Kartini, who fought against the prevailing norms and restrictions imposed on women in Java during the colonial era. Through her heartfelt letters, Kartini articulates her struggles, dreams, and desires for women's emancipation and education. She challenges traditional customs and expresses her yearning for freedom and equality. Her words resonate with readers, inspiring generations to come, and her ideas continue to influence the fight for gender equality in Indonesia and beyond. This timeless collection serves as a testament to Kartini's courage, intellect, and unwavering commitment to women's rights, making it an essential read for anyone interested in feminism, cultural history, and the struggle for social justice.
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Independently Published La Morte Di Cesare: Radiocronaca in napoletano,
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Academic Studies Press Women and War
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The University of Chicago Press Travels in the Americas
Book SynopsisAlbert Camus's lively journals from his eventful visits to the United States and South America in the 1940s, available again in a new translation. In March 1946, the young Albert Camus crossed from Le Havre to New York. Though he was virtually unknown to American audiences at the time, all that was about to changeThe Stranger, his first book translated into English, would soon make him a literary star. By 1949, when he set out on a tour of South America, Camus was an international celebrity. Camus's journals offer an intimate glimpse into his daily life during these eventful years and showcase his thinking at its most personala form of observational writing that the French call choses vues (things seen). Camus's journals from these travels record his impressions, frustrations, joys, and longings. Here are his unguarded first impressions of his surroundings and his encounters with publishers, critics, and members of the New York intelligentsia. Long unavailable in English, the journals have now been expertly retranslated by Ryan Bloom, with a new introduction by Alice Kaplan. Bloom's translation captures the informal, sketch-like quality of Camus's observationsby turns ironic, bitter, cutting, and melancholyand the quick notes he must have taken after exhausting days of travel and lecturing. Bloom and Kaplan's notes and annotations allow readers to walk beside the existentialist thinker as he experiences changes in his own life and the world around him, all in his inimitable style.Trade Review"An intimate glimpse into the psyche of a widely admired writer." * Wall Street Journal *"With its ample photographs, rich introduction, and smooth-flowing, conversational translation, Travels in the Americas is an engaging travel account that reintroduces Albert Camus as both a man and an existentialist icon moving through North and South America in the postwar years." * Foreword Reviews *“Nine months after the end of the Second World War, Camus crossed the Atlantic on the SS Oregon to New York, traveling between ‘continents gone mad,’ as he put it. Three years later, he journeyed via Dakar to South America. This attractively illustrated new translation of the journals from those trips shows us an intensely curious, often solemn, and sometimes witty Camus as he attempts to understand the cultures he was encountering. As Alice Kaplan explains in her Introduction, the travel logs are an invitation to ‘see the Americas, as if for the first time, through his eyes,’ They also chart the writer’s transition towards literary celebrity and reveal the private doubts and needs that troubled him.” * Edward J. Hughes, author of 'Albert Camus' *"Bloom’s translation is a model of tight writing... it reads briskly, as we would expect journal entries to read, and precisely, as we would expect of anything penned by Camus... Travels in the Americas is a small, beautiful gem, worthy of a large readership." * Great Lakes Review *“An elegant new translation.” * London Review of Books *
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Orion Publishing Co Countless Sleepless Nights
Book Synopsis'I'm sorry I can't say this to your face, but words fail me every time I try, even though I know you would be fine (and knowing you, you might have already guessed).' A moving, inspiring and thought-provoking collection of coming-out stories from around the world. From the good, the sad, the surprising and the funny, no two stories are the same, yet all are written by people who share the courage to be vulnerable, take huge risks to find love and acceptance and are brave enough to be their authentic selves. Whether you have any experience of coming out or not, these stories are incredibly powerful and moving.
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Broadview Press Ltd A Known Scribbler: Frances Burney on Literary
Book SynopsisFrances Burney’s journals and letters, composed between 1768 and 1839, contain a unique account of the creative, social, and commercial ambitions and achievements of an eighteenth-century female writer. Focusing on Burney’s literary life, this selection from her journals and correspondence combines Burney’s own accounts of the creation of her popular novels, her aspirations for her dramatic writings, and her reflections upon her letters and journals as literary productions in their own right.In addition to Burney’s letters and journal entries, this Broadview edition includes: selections from Burney’s Brief Reflections relative to the Emigrant French Clergy (1793) and Memoirs of Doctor Burney (1832); letters by family and friends about her literary activities; and contemporary reviews of The Diary and Letters of Madame d’Arblay.Trade Review“This rich selection gives a vivid sense of Burney, the sharp-eyed and exacting writer. It also brings to life her struggles, and her self-awareness, as an author, striving and competing in a literary marketplace. The book charts one extraordinary woman’s life of writing, but its journal entries, letters and reviews also reveal the changing habits of a whole literary culture.” — John Mullan, University College London“These accounts of Frances Burney’s literary adventures, along with the advice of her closest friends and relatives, provide a penetrating view of a woman writer’s constraints and obstacles in the eighteenth century. Justine Crump’s selections, from Burney’s excitement over the anonymous publication of Evelina to Samuel Crisp’s warnings about propriety and Edmund Burke’s praise of Cecilia, provide intriguing perspectives of Burney and her art.” — Linda Lang-Peralta, The Metropolitan State College of DenverTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsPrefaceAbbreviations and Short TitlesIntroductionBurney and the Literary MarketplaceBurney and Eighteenth-Century TheatreCreativity and the Female Artistin Eighteenth-Century BritainBurney’s Life-WritingsFrances Burney: A Brief ChronologyA Note on the TextPrincipal PersonsJournals and Correspondence of Frances BurneyReferencesAppendix: Contemporary Reviews of The Diary and Letters of Madame d’Arblay New Monthly Magazine and Humorist (February 1842) [John Wilson Croker] The Quarterly Review (June 1842) [Thomas Babington Macaulay] The Edinburgh Review (January 1843) Eclectic Review (1847) Select Bibliography
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Blackwater Press Ma Chere Maman - Mon Cher Enfant: The Letters of Lucien and Louise Durosoir, 1914-1919
Book SynopsisHis violin saved his life. August 1914: Renowned violinist Lucien Durosoir (1878-1955) was taking a break from his busy concert schedule in a small town in Brittany with his mother, when the world and his life changed forever. In the space of a two or three days, he was off to the front. Good luck, his companion throughout four hard years of war, placed him in a regiment led by officers who loved music, and Lucien was asked to create a chamber music ensemble. Luck also placed around him other excellent musicians, and, within a few months they were playing some of the great chamber music repertoire. Lucien wrote his first letter to his mother as soon as he got out of the cattle car and officially became part of the fighting force, and until the end of the war he wrote at least daily. She, in turn, replied in lengthy, daily letters, sharing news and offering maternal guidance. This translation brings the story of these two strong-willed, loving, troubled, people to the English-speaking world for the first time. It provides a unique perspective on war, music, and a mother-son relationship. This is an account of the horrors of the Great War from someone who managed to create beauty within its gruesome trenches. This is the first English translation of their letters.Trade ReviewPraise for Ma Chere Maman – Mon Cher Enfant: "Lucien Durosoir is not nearly as well- known as a composer in the English-speaking world as he should be. In the lyricism and sheer beauty of his music, he can remind the listener of Edward Elgar. But unlike Elgar, Durosoir was young enough to serve in the trenches of the Great War. Like millions of his comrades, he was also a prolific letter writer. The letters between him and his mother, Louise, are elegantly translated and wonderfully presented here. They present a rich tapestry of the grim circumstances in and out of the trenches of the Great War. They also present strategies of survival, physical and emotional, but also romantic. Elizabeth Schoonmaker Auld has done us a great service by making these letters available. They can only increase our admiration for this great composer and exemplary survivor of this horrible conflict."--Leonard V. Smith, Professor of History, Oberlin College; "These letters provide important first-person perspective on both a typical and atypical experience of a solider at the front and a musician fulfilling national duty. We see the evolving relationship between a mother and a son, initial optimism, moments of deep grief for lost friends, and more, all in a highly readable translation."--Joseph T. Acquisto, Professor of French, University of Vermont;"A professional violinist in his mid-thirties is called to fight in the 'Great War'. Suddenly wrenched from a career and a widowed mother, many musicians would not have had the strength of character to withstand the long years of deprivation and trauma. Lucien Durosoir's extended correspondence with his mother reveals his exceptional courage and leadership as a soldier, as well as his ingenuity in finding ways to make music amidst the deprivations of war. Via his vivid descriptive writing, and Elizabeth Auld's superb translation, we experience the immediacy of war through the eyes (and ears) of a mature and artistic spirit."--Linda Laurent, Professor Emerita of Music, Central Connecticut State University
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Jean Boite editions André Cadere: The Last Letters: Letters about a
Book SynopsisWe know of only three texts written by André Cadere, this is the only one that was not yet published. Between May and July 1978, in the weeks preceding his death, he wrote forty-three letters to his friend and gallery owner, Yvon Lambert. These letters a moving testimony to his thinking, his practice and his work are published here for the first time in their entirety, and constitute the artist's third and last writing, after Presentation of a work. Use of a work (1974), and History of a work (1982). The edition is composed of a slipcase that gathers the book introduced by Bernard Marcelis specialist of Cadere, author of his catalogue raisonne? followed by the 43 letters commented, annotated and illustrated.
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HarperCollins Publishers The Betrayal of Anne Frank
Book SynopsisTHE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERHums with living history, human warmth and indignation' New York TimesLess a mystery unsolved than a secret well keptThe mystery has haunted generations since the Second World War: Who betrayed Anne Frank and her family? And why?Now, thanks to radical new technology and the obsession of a retired FBI agent, this book offers an answer. Rosemary Sullivan unfolds the story in a gripping, moving narrative.Over thirty million people have read The Diary of a Young Girl, the journal teenaged Anne Frank kept while living in an attic with her family and four other people in Amsterdam during World War II, until the Nazis arrested them and sent them to a concentration camp. But despite the many works journalism, books, plays and novels devoted to Anne's story, none has ever conclusively explained how these eight people managed to live in hiding undetected for over two years and who or what finally brought the Nazis to their door.With painstaking care, retired FBI agTrade ReviewThe New York Times bestseller ‘A stunning piece of historical detective work, cleverly structured and grippingly written’Daily Telegraph, five stars ‘Powerfully illuminates what it was like to live under a genocidal regime’Kathryn Hughes, Guardian ‘As much about the process of investigation as about the subject investigated. Along the way [Sullivan] lucidly describes many fascinating details of the compromises and betrayals of life under a murderous regime’Craig Brown, Mail on Sunday ‘Sullivan circles all of the possibilities like Agatha Christie with Zoom and a time machine. Shaped like a procedural or a whodunit, The Betrayal of Anne Frank hums with living history, human warmth and indignation’New York Times ‘Featuring startling new revelations and an intriguing new theory of what happened’Daniel Finklestein, The Times ‘Praiseworthy. With impressive clarity and dramatic effect, Sullivan reconstructs a complex investigation lasting five years’Gerard de Groot, The Times ‘A gripping, moving narrative’Press Association ‘Meticulous … Sullivan describes the Cold Case Team’s interdisciplinary methods, from criminal profiling, historical research and crowdsourcing to a Microsoft artificial intelligence program that found connections within a blizzard of archival documents. But the book is most engrossing as a portrait of wartime Amsterdam, a city of conflicting and cross-cutting loyalties, where personal peril could erase the line between heroism and villainy’Boston Globe
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Faber & Faber Sergey Prokofiev Diaries 19071914
Book SynopsisProkofiev, a compulsive diarist, gifted and idiosyncratic writer, possessed an incorrigibly sardonic curiosity about individuals and events. When he left Russia following the 1917 Revolution, his diaries were recovered from the family flat in Petrograd, and Prokofiev smuggled them out of the country after his first return to the Soviet Union in 1927. The later diaries, written in the West, were brought back by legal decree after the composer's death, to be kept in a special, closed section of the Russian State Archive. Eventually Prokofiev's son Svyatoslav was allowed to copy the voluminous contents; when he and his son Serge Jr moved to Paris they undertook the gigantic task of reproducing the partially encoded manuscript in an intelligible form.Volume I covers the bulk of Prokofiev's years at the St Petersburg Conservatoire, ending with his triumphant graduation. Simultaneously attached to and exasperated by the traditions exemplified at this time by such famous men as RimTrade Review'A fascinating record for posterity.' - Irish Times'This extraordinary achievement . . . Phillip's enthusiasm, tact and sympathy,not to mention his wide knowledge of music and history, haveproduced a work that everyone interested in music and Russian culture ofthe past hundred years should read.', Gerald McBurney, New Statesman
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Little, Brown & Company The Confident Woman Journal
Book SynopsisLive boldly in the love of Christ with Bible teacher and #1 New York Times bestselling author Joyce Meyer.For women who have tried every solution imaginable to be the best version of themselves, but nothing seems to be working, Joyce Meyer has the answer: Confidence. Joyce explains that confidence stems from being positive in your actions and living honestly, but most importantly from having faith, in God and in ourselves. By using the characteristics outlined in Confident You, this journal gives women a place to write out their concerns and prayers.With encouragement from Joyce Meyer to guide us, we can work towards becoming the confident woman we were created to be.Ellie Claire's LeatherLuxe® material plus a four-color interior design combine to make The Confident Woman a stunning journal. The rich feel of leather is finished with round corners to make this journal an extraordinary gift for any time of year.
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Eye Books An English Library Journey: With Detours to Wales
Book Synopsis"A Hymn of Praise to the Palaces of Delight that should grace every street corner. Absolutely exquisite." Ian McMillan. John Bevis is a writer and book-lover on an eccentric quest: to obtain a membership card from every library authority in England. In a ten-year mission criss-crossing the country - from Solihull to Slough, from Cleveland to Cornwall - he enrols at libraries of all shapes and sizes: monuments to Art Deco or Brutalism; a converted corset factory; one even shaped like a pork pie. With the architectural eye of Pevsner and the eavesdropping ear of Bill Bryson, he engages us at every step with anecdotes and apercus about the role of the public library in our national life, while ruing its decline in the age of austerity. As interested in the people he finds as he is in the buildings and their history, he is a humane, witty and erudite guide. The result is a book to be treasured by anyone who has ever used a library.
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Crescent House In Mischief's Wake Paperback: In the joy of the
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McGill-Queen's University Press In Their Own Write
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Columbia University Press A German Officer in Occupied Paris
Book SynopsisErnst Jünger, one of twentieth-century Germany’s most important and controversial writers, faithfully kept a journal during the Second World War in occupied Paris, on the eastern front, and in Germany until its defeat—writings that are of major historical and literary significance. These wartime journals appear here in English for the first time.Trade ReviewErnst Jünger’s record of German-occupied Paris and the battlefields of the Caucasus is a treasure trove for readers interested in the history of the Second World War. Even more, though, it is a literary accomplishment of the first order, a document of European modernism, in which this master stylist leaves traces of the violence of the age between the lines of his crystalline prose. -- Russell A. Berman, Walter A. Haas Professor in the Humanities, Stanford University, and senior fellow, Hoover InstitutionThese diaries are not only a remarkable document of the time, but bring us close to a strange but highly original person, always capable of a fresh response to the natural world, the atmosphere of Paris, and the hideous events that force themselves on his knowledge. Many of Jünger’s texts have an inhuman chill; these diaries reveal his humanity. -- Ritchie Robertson * Times Literary Supplement *For English-speaking readers who do not know his work, A German Officer in Occupied Paris shows the many sides of this complex, elusive writer. -- Edmund Fawcett * Financial Times *Through these journals, we see Jünger consorting with resistors and collaborators, intellectuals and artists, drinking champagne, dining in sumptuous restaurants, and accompanying other officers to nightclubs, where naked women perform. Wandering around the city, he combs through antiquarian bookshops, stops in at galleries, discusses literature with friends, and acutely observes plants and flowers change with the seasons. He recounts in detail his dreams, nightmares, and musings on war. . . . A unique historical testimony. * Kirkus Reviews *Once read, these [journals] are never forgotten. They are surely the strangest literary production to come out of the Second World War, stranger by far than anything by Céline or Malaparte. Jünger reduces his war to a sequence of hallucinatory prose poems in which things appear to breathe and people perform like automata or, at best, like insects. -- Bruce Chatwin, New York Review of Books (review of French edition)Politically ambiguous and polymathic, Jünger led a remarkable and long life (he died at the age of 102 in 1998) as a soldier, writer and philosopher. "I suffer from a hyperacute sense of observation," he said, not as a boast, but by way of admitting to a weakness. The foibles of the Nazis, the deathwatch beetles he collected, the facial tics of liars, the flick of a Parisian woman's hair as she bought a hat, the physical contortions of an executed deserter: all these came under the magnifying glass in his war journals, kept from 1941-45. Their publication in English, fluently translated, is a remarkable moment, presenting a model of how to navigate an age of extremism. -- Roger Boyes * The Times of London *Expertly translated into English by Thomas and Abby Hansen . . . with an excellent biographical-critical foreword by Elliot Y. Neaman. -- Michael Dirda * The Washington Post *[Jünger's] writings and insights have long earned him sage status in Germany. This, the first publication in English of his diaries from 1941–45, heightens his complexity but also makes him a more rounded figure. -- Alex Colville * The Spectator *A German Officer in Occupied Paris is a remarkable slice of World War II, and makes for fascinating reading. -- M.A. Orthofer * The Complete Review *Jünger is an eloquent and informative witness to artistic life in occupied France, deportations, the burgeoning French Resistance and the conspirators against Hitler as well as the utter chaos after Stalingrad. This edition also includes extensive notes and a full glossary of all the people mentioned in the text. * Times Higher Education *Jünger’s war diaries, translated here with damning clarity by Thomas and Abby Hansen, are a fascinating, refined and disturbing record of the moral disasters of Nazism and collaboration. -- Dominic Green * Wall Street Journal *With the publication of these extraordinary, sometimes hallucinatory diaries. English speakers have the chance to read one of the great witnesses to 20th-century Europe’s catastrophe. -- Paul Lay * New Statesman *A highly decorated German veteran of the First World War, Jünger (1895-1998) spent much of the Second as an officer stationed in Paris, where his journal is an almost daily record of the views and impressions of a well-read literary figure, entomologist, and cultural critic, now available for the first time in English. . . . Elliot Neaman is to be thanked for a comprehensive Foreword, as are Thomas Hansen and Abby Hansen for their translation of a most enigmatic set of Journals, and Columbia University Press for publishing them. They have made accessible the work of a cultured and literary person in service to a brutal regime. -- Bertram M. Gordon * H-Diplo *In Paris, Jünger tried to confront absolute horror with his chevalieresque idea of style, and the experiment is absorbing to observe, in its short-circuits and moments of illumination and ultimate burnout. -- Adam Thirlwell * New York Review of Books *Named a 2019 book of the year. -- Lucy Beckett * Times Literary Supplement *However uneven or bizarre some of the entries, the overall structure of the journals — free-flowing, chaotic, and kaleidoscopic — works. Together they act as a mirror reflecting a world where the center had not held. * The New Criterion *Table of ContentsForeword, by Eliot NeamanTranslator’s Preface1. First Paris Journal2. Notes from the Caucasus3. Second Paris Journal4. Kirchhorst DiariesNotesGlossary of Personal NamesIndex
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University of California Press In the Clutches of the Law Clarence Darrows Letters
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Harvard University Press Adams Family Correspondence: Volume 8
Book SynopsisBy early 1787, John and Abigail Adams, anticipating a quiet retirement from government in Massachusetts, were quickly pulled back into the public sphere by John's election as first vice president under the Constitution. The Adamses thoughtfully observe the world around them, from English court manners to the politics of the new federal government.
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University of Virginia Press The Papers of George Washington December
Book SynopsisVolume 13 of the ""Revolutionary War Series"" documents a crucial portion of the winter encampment at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, when the fate of Washington's army hung in the balance. It begins with Washington's soldiers hard at work erecting huts and preparing for the next campaign.
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The University of Alabama Press Epistolary Responses The Letter in TwentiethCentury American Fiction and Criticism
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University of Toronto Press The Correspondence of Erasmus
Book SynopsisThe letters in this volume reflect Erasmus’ anxiety about the endemic warfare in Western Europe, the advance of the Ottoman Turks into Europe, and the increasing threat of armed conflict between Catholics and Protestants in Germany. Unable and unwilling to attend the Diet of Augsburg (JuneNovember 1530), summoned by Emperor Charles V in the attempt to mediate a religious settlement, Erasmus corresponded with those in attendance, urging them (in vain) to preserve peace at all costs. The letters also shed light on Erasmus’ controversies with Catholic critics (Luis de Carvajal and Frans Titelmans) who accused him of Lutheran sympathies, and former friends among the Protestant reformers (Gerard Geldenhouwer and others in Strasbourg), who embarrassed him by citing him in support of their views. Because of a mysterious and debilitating illness (identified in an appendix to the volume) the twelve months covered were less productive of scholarship than was usual for EraTrade Review'The Toronto Erasmus project is a magnificent achievement, one of the scholarly triumphs of our time. The succession of fine volumes - both in quality of content and of design and production - since the edition began in 1974 has continued to fulfil the original promise of the distinguished team of editors and the equally distinguished advisory committee.' -- Lisa Jardine Common Knowledge 'The Collected Works of Erasmus project has long since established a new standard for scholarly translation series to emulate. Not only have the English versions represented Erasmus' writings in crisp and accessible language, but meticulous editorial scholarship has placed the author's thought and work in their proper intellectual contexts.' -- Jerry H. Bentley Renaissance Quarterly 'Academic publishing does not get any better than this: durably bound, expertly annotated, beautifully translated editions of the works of one of the finest scholars in the illustrious history of the Christian Church.' -- Michael Bauman Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 'This current volume retains the impeccable scholarship, careful attention to detail, and beautiful high-quality materials and printing that has characterized the series... A very valuable and much appreciated addition.' -- Gregory D. Dodds Renaissance Quarterly vol 69:02:2016
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University of Nebraska Press The Complete Letters of Henry James 18801883
Book SynopsisIncludes 178 letters, 98 of which are published for the first time, written from November 1, 1881, to January 1, 1883. The letters record Henry James's establishment as one of the preeminent professional writers in Britain and the United States and follow James's return journeys to the United States following the deaths of his parents.Table of ContentsThe Complete Letters of Henry James, 1880-1883, volume 2, contains 177 letters, of which 97 are published for the first time. Each letter is followed by previous publication information or a note that there is no previous publication. Acknowledgments 000 Symbols and Abbreviations 000 Chronology 000 Errata 000 1881 [November 1, 1881-April 25, 1882, or December 26, 1882-August 7, 1883] To Elizabeth Ellery Sedgwick Child 000 November 1 To William Dean Howells 000 November 3 To Houghton, Mifflin and Company 000 November 5 To Thomas Bailey Aldrich 000 November 5 To Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. 000 November 5 To Houghton, Mifflin and Company 000 November 6 To Marian “Clover” Hooper Adams 000 [November 6, 1881, November 20, 1881, or February 5, 1882] To Grace Norton 000 [November 9] To Isabella Stewart Gardner 000 [November 10, 1881, November 24, 1881, or February 9, 1882] To Grace Norton 000 [November 14] To Grace Norton 000 [November 14] To George Abbot James 000 [November 15, 1881-January 7, 1882] To Mary Sherwin Gibbens 000 [November 16] To Thomas Bailey Aldrich 000 November 17 To Isabella Stewart Gardner 000 November 17 To Frederick Macmillan 000 November 18 To Thomas Bailey Aldrich 000 November 19 To George Abbot James 000 [November 20] To Thomas Sergeant Perry 000 November 21 To Abby Alger 000 November 23 To Thomas Bailey Aldrich 000 November 23 To Houghton, Mifflin and Company 000 [November 24] To Isabella Stewart Gardner 000 November 25 To Elinor Mead Howells 000 [November 27] To Elizabeth Ellery Sedgwick Child 000 [November 28] To Elinor Mead Howells 000 [November 28] To Thomas Sergeant Perry 000 [November 30] To Thomas Sergeant Perry 000 [November 30] To George Abbot James 000 December 3 To Charles Strong 000 December 5 To Robert Grant 000 December 6 To William Dean Howells 000 December 7 To Isabella Stewart Gardner 000 December 8 To Houghton, Mifflin and Company 000 December 10 To Julia Ward Howe 000 December 13 To Grace Norton 000 [December 18] To Helena de Kay Gilder 000 [December 18] To Whitelaw Reid 000 December 20 To Henry Adams 000 December 26 To Whitelaw Reid 000 December 27 To Henry Adams 000 December 27 To Frederick Macmillan 000 December 29 To Whitelaw Reid 000 December 30 To Frederick Macmillan 000 1882 January 1 To Edwin Lawrence Godkin 000 January 7 To Thomas Sergeant Perry 000 January 7 To William Ralston 000 January 8 To Sir John Forbes Clark 000 January 9 To William Dean Howells 000 January 9 To Henrietta Reubell 000 January 10 To Grace Norton 000 January 15 To Edwin Lawrence Godkin 000 January 15 To Jane Dalzell Finlay Hill 000 January 22 To Edwin Lawrence Godkin 000 January 22 To Mary Walsh James 000 January 23 To Sir John Forbes Clark 000 January 23 To Isabella Stewart Gardner 000 January 23 To Thomas Sergeant Perry 000 January 27 To Robertson James 000 January 27 To Houghton, Mifflin and Company 000 [January 29] To Mary Walsh James 000 [February 2] To George Abbot James 000 [February 3] To Francis James Child 000 February 3 To Edwin Lawrence Godkin 000 [February 3] To Isabella Stewart Gardner 000 [February 3] To Thomas Sergeant Perry 000 February 7 To Charles Eliot Norton 000 February 7 To Julia Ward Howe 000 [February 8] To George Abbot James 000 February 10 To Caroline Dall 000 February 10 To George Abbot James 000 February 12 To Unidentified 000 February 13 To Mary James Wilkinson Mathews 000 February 14 To Elizabeth Boott 000 [February 14-April 25, 1882] To Daniel Chester French 000 February 17 To Helena de Kay Gilder 000 February 20 To George Abbot James 000 February 27 To Edwin Lawrence Godkin 000 February 27 To Archibald Philip Primrose, Lord Rosebery 000 [March 3, 10, or 17] To Grace Norton 000 March 4 To William B. Closson 000 March 4 To William Jones Hoppin 000 March 4 To Henrietta Reubell 000 March 7 To Abbott Handerson Thayer 000 March 11 To Unidentified 000 [March 18]To Edwin Lawrence Godkin 000 [March 23]To Grace Norton 000 March 29 To Isabella Stewart Gardner 000 March 29 To Arthur George Sedgwick 000 April 5 To John Milton Hay 000 April 5 To Frances “Fanny” Anne Kemble 000 April 7 To Isabella Stewart Gardner 000 April 11 To Grace Norton 000 April 11 To Thomas Sergeant Perry 000 April 12 To Isabella Stewart Gardner 000 April 14 To Isabella Stewart Gardner 000 [April 16]To Isabella Stewart Gardner 000 [April 16 or 17] To Isabella Stewart Gardner 000 [April 17]To Isabella Stewart Gardner 000 April 18 To Julia Ward Howe 000 April 20 To Francis J. Garrison 000 April 20 To Edmund Clarence Stedman 000 April 24 To Isabella Stewart Gardner 000 April 25 To Owen Wister 000 April 28 To Edward Waldo Emerson 000 [April 29] To Thomas Sergeant Perry 000 [May 3] To Elizabeth Ellery Sedgwick Child 000 May 25 To Grace Norton 000 May 25 To Mary Lucinda Holton James 000 May 26 To William Ralston 000 June 1 To Thomas Bailey Aldrich 000 June 5 To Isabella Stewart Gardner 000 June 5 To Edwin Lawrence Godkin 000 June 14 To Elizabeth Eberstadt Lewis 000 June 16 To Elizabeth Eberstadt Lewis 000 June 20 To Eliza Lynn Linton 000 June 27 To Thomas Bailey Aldrich 000 July 3 To Elizabeth Eberstadt Lewis 000 July 6 To Frank 000 July 12 To Frederick Macmillan 000 July 23 To Eliza Lynn Linton 000 July 27 To Elizabeth Eberstadt Lewis 000 July 28 To William Dean Howells 000 July 31 To Henry James Sr. 000 [August 1]To William Dean Howells 000 August 2 To Elizabeth Boott 000 August 2 To Edmund Gosse 000 August 2 To Grace Norton 000 [August 4]To William Dean Howells 000 August 8 To William Dean Howells 000 [August 10]To William Dean Howells 000 August 12 To William Dean Howells 000 August 12 To William Jones Hoppin 000 August 19 To William Dean Howells 000 August 29 To Thomas Bailey Aldrich 000 August 29 To James Ripley Osgood 000 September 3 To Isabella Stewart Gardner 000 September 3 To Henrietta Reubell 000 September 10 To Moncure Daniel Conway 000 September 11 To Henrietta Reubell 000 September 11 To Moncure Daniel Conway 000 September 14 To William Dean Howells 000 October 4 To James Ripley Osgood 000 October 7 To Elizabeth Boott 000 October 15 To William James 000 October 15 To William Dean Howells 000 October 16 To Alice Howe Gibbens James 000 October 17 To Grace Norton 000 October 28 To Henrietta Reubell 000 November 8 To James Ripley Osgood 000 November 12 To Isabella Stewart Gardner 000 November 13 To Sir John Forbes Clark 000 November 22 To Charles Hallam Elton Brookfield 000 November 22 To William Henry Huntington 000 November 26 To John Milton Hay 000 November 27 To William Dean Howells 000 [November 30] To Theodore E. Child 000 November 30 To William Dean Howells 000 December 1 To Elizabeth Eberstadt Lewis 000 December 5 To John Milton Hay 000 December 5 To Theodore E. Child 000 December 5 To Henrietta Reubell 000 December 6 To Robertson James 000 December 8 To Elizabeth Eberstadt Lewis 000 December 10 To Edmund Gosse 000 [December 11] To Elizabeth Eberstadt Lewis 000 [December 21, 1882-January 4, 1883] To Charles Eliot Norton 000 [December 24, 1882-August 12, 1883] To George Abbot James 000 December 26, 27 To William James 000 December 26 To Frederick Macmillan 000 December 28, 29 To William James 000 December 29 To Gertrude Bloede 000 December 30 To Robertson James 000 December 30 To Grace Norton 000 December 30 To Lady Louisa Erskine Wolseley 000 1883 January 1 To William James 000 January 1 To James Ripley Osgood 000 Biographical Register 000 General Editors’ Note 000 Works Cited 000 Index 000
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