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Double 9 Books Letters to His Children
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Double 9 Booksllp De Profundis
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Hodder & Stoughton Shetland Diaries
Book SynopsisLong before he set foot on the islands, Big Cat Diary and Springwatch presenter, Simon King, fell in love with Shetland. This extraordinary northern wilderness is home to otters and a vast seabird colony, but it was a chance encounter with a killer whale that compelled him to spend a year getting to know the place of his boyhood dreams for a BBC series. With his wife and young daughter, Simon experienced Shetland through the changing seasons and discovered the wildlife and the warmth of community in these islands battered by the North Sea. Their journey is filled with adventure, beauty, humour and occasional hardship as Simon discovers the true voice of Shetland.Trade ReviewIf you love the Shetland Isles, or love the wildlife of the Scottish islands, then this is the book for you * Highland News *The TV Shetland Diaries are now accompanied by a book, which sheds light on King's attachment to the natural world. As a little boy, the diaries reveal, games of hide and seek in the woods developed the patience he would later require to while away the hours in hides in the field or, as he says, happily "lost in a world of otter spraint". * Countryfile *Brilliant observations of animal behaviour. Whether he's describing otters playing or gannets plunging off the cliffs of Noss, King slows down the action to enjoy every last, sinuous twist. * BBC Wildlife Magazine *Heartwarming and candid * Daily Mail on WILD LIFE *His book is packed with wild encounters * Independent on WILD LIFE *This is a heart-warming, engagingly honest read * Scotsman on WILD LIFE *Whether in front of the camera explaining the mysteries of the natural world ... or behind it as a skilled operator, King is one of the most engaging of natural history presenters and the prose in his autobiography, Wild Life, is every bit as addictive. * Scotsman on WILD LIFE *Fascinating...Simon's passion is infectious, as anyone who's watched his programmes knows, and his enthusiasm pours from every word in his new book * Beautiful Britain on WILD LIFE *
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John Murray Press Tennis Whites and Teacakes
Book SynopsisTennis Whites and Teacakes brings together the best of Betjeman''s poetry, private letters, journalism and musings to present a fully rounded picture of what he stood for. From his arguments for new steel buildings to his amusement about the etiquette of village teashops, it reveals Betjeman not just as a sentimentalist but as a passionate observer with a wonderful sense of humour and an acute eye.
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Headline Publishing Group Words of War
Book SynopsisDuring the Second World War, across the frontline as well as on the Home Front, millions of people recorded their thoughts of their experiences - whether in letters, their personal diaries or those prosecuting the war giving speeches. Much as Letters of Note celebrated the great letters written through history, so Words of War allows the Imperial War Museum to showcase its incredible array of first-hand material to shine a light on how people journeyed through the 1939-45 conflict.Ten chapters take the reader chronologically through the key moments of the war: from the retreat to Dunkirk to the battle of the Atlantic; the savage fighting in the jungles of the far East to the RAF Bomber Command's campaign in Europe; the discovery of the Nazi's concentration camp system to the war's ultimate conclusion at the Nuremburg trials. One hundred documents are researched and selected by the Imperial War Museum's expert archivists, with commentary from thTrade ReviewIt is a remarkable treasure trove, beautifully assembled, and a snapshot testimony to the incredible breadth and extent over which the war was fought and experienced first-hand. -- James HollandExtraordinarily powerful and mesmerising - there is a haunting intimacy and immediacy about these recovered letters, documents and images that opens a window directly into the past, vividly summoning the darkest days but also the greatest courage and endurance and the fascinating quirks and passions of human nature in war. -- Sinclair McKay
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Vanderbilt University Press Hot Spot
Book SynopsisWhen Nashville identified its first case of coronavirus in March 2020, the city was between directors of public health and as unprepared as the rest of the world for what was to come. Dr. Alex Jahangir, a trauma surgeon acting at that time as chair of the Metro Nashville Board of Health, soon found himself in front of the cameras and eventually in the unenviable position as head of the city's Coronavirus Task Force. What followed was a year of unprecedented challenge and scrutiny. Jahangir, a first-generation Iranian immigrant, grew up in Nashvillebut that didn't stop ethnic, racial, and cultural tensions around masking, schools, vaccines, and the very reality of the virus from dominating what should have been a collective effort at keeping Nashville healthy and safe. Hot Spot is Jahangir's narrative derived from his actual op notes (the journal-like entries surgeons often keep following operations) and expanded to include his personal reflections and a glimpse into the inner sanctTrade ReviewI will only assert that my friend Alex Jahangir's pandemic memoir is a touchstone for anyone who led through or lived through the pandemic. More crucially, his account gives us a template for leadership when there is none to be had."—from the foreword by Dr. James HildrethTable of Contents Foreword by Dr. James E. K. Hildreth Prologue Surge One: March 8, 2020 – May 31, 2020 Surge Two: June 1, 2020 – September 30, 2020 Surge Three: October 1, 2020 – March 7, 2021 Epilogue: Surge Four
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HarperCollins Publishers Everyone Versus Racism A Letter to Change the
Book Synopsis''The best of England'' The New Statesman''A powerful open letter about racism'' The SunI just want equality, equality for all of us. At the moment, the scales are unfairly balanced and I just want things to be fair for my children, my grandchildren and future generations.'On 13 June 2020, Patrick Hutchinson, a black man, was photographed carrying a white injured man to safety during a confrontation in London between Black Lives Matter demonstrators and counter-protestors. The powerful image was shared and discussed all around the world.Everyone versus Racism is a poignant letter from Patrick to his children and grandchildren. Writing from the heart, he describes the realities of life as a black man today and why we must unite to inspire change for generations to come.
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Running Press,U.S. The Practical Witchs Guided Journal For Wisdom
Book SynopsisThe Practical Witch''s Guided Journal is a charming hardcover journal that includes guided prompts for recording thoughts, spells, and potions for love, joy, prosperity, work, money, and health and healing, as well as a handful of spells and rituals throughout. With gorgeous watercolor art from The Practical Witch''s Spell Book (Fall 18), beginners and seasoned witches alike will soon be on their way to love, happiness, and success. The package includes a stunning design using high-quality materials and a ribbon marker for safe-keeping your spot.
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Semiotext (E) Earlier
Book SynopsisSasha Frere-Jones?s evolution as a writer and musician with the deceptively casual intelligence that marks all of his work.Shuttling between his first year of life (1967) and the year he wrote the book (2020), Earlier is a glorious sequence of moments, a record of the experiences that set the shape of a life. Frere-Jones?s prose floats between clinically precise fragments and emotional impressions of revelations, pleasures, and accidents. It?s a book about how lives happen and sensibilities form.As fellow music critic Alex Ross observes, ?It is weird to write a book about yourself, as this book is well aware. Gazing in the mirror is not mass entertainment. Sasha Frere-Jones, a writer of nonchalant, rope-a-dope power, drops the illusion of self-knowledge and instead offers up a kaleidoscope of memory shards, faithful to the chaos of inner and outer worlds. Earlier is funny, cool, raw, wise, and secretly sublime.?Begun in 2010, Earlier was completed at the request of Deborah Holmes, to whom the book is dedicated. Holmes is the mother of Frere-Jones?s two boys, Sam and Jonah. Diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in July of 2020, Holmes died in January of 2021. Earlier is the last book she read. Frere-Jones says, ?Deborah was the most enthusiastic reader I?ve ever met. She read when she wasn?t doing something else, and that never changed. She asked me to write this when we met, in 1990. I am sorry I made her wait so long.?
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Insight Editions Harry Potter: Wanted Posters Pocket Journal
Book SynopsisInspired by the Wanted Posters of fan-favorite characters, this pocket notebook collection invites fans to celebrate the magic of the beloved Harry Potter™ films!Show your love for the magical world of Harry Potter with this collectible set of three pocket notebooks, each with a unique design based on a famous character’s Wanted Poster from the films. The notebooks feature a flexible cover and sixty-four lined, acid-free pages of high-quality, heavy stock paper, perfect for jotting down notes, making lists, or simply recording your thoughts! The Harry Potter: Wanted Posters Pocket Notebook Collection is one of a new line of mini notebook collections inspired by the cinematic Wizarding World. Fans can choose their favorite designs or collect them all!
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Biteback Publishing The The Slow Downfall of Margaret Thatcher: The
Book SynopsisBranded `the rough-spoken Yorkshire Rasputin', Bernard Ingham served as Margaret Thatcher's press secretary for virtually all of her eleven-year premiership, adroitly steering the government's relationship with the media - and the Prime Minister's relationship with the nation. Known for his unswerving loyalty, he robustly defended Thatcher from her critics in both the press and the political jungle, earning him friends and foes in equal measure, as she went on to win three consecutive elections. Thatcher's last days in power, however, saw some of the most remarkable events in British political history, and Ingham was, for once, helpless to turn the tide. These eagerly anticipated diaries cover two turbulent years from January 1989 to December 1990 - a period Ingham terms `the long, slow assassination' - detailing the succession of crises that led to the Prime Minister's resignation in November 1990, and the critical roles played by the big political beasts of the time. With his trademark gruff candour and wry wit, Ingham's spirited diaries shed new light on Thatcher's final months in No. 10, charting the dramatic downfall of one of the most influential figures of the twentieth century.Trade Review"Entertainingly written and fulfils the first requirement of any political memoir, giving a tantalising glimpse of the hem of the black petticoat of power." The Tablet
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Hay House UK Ltd Trust Your Vibes Guided Journal: Reclaim the
Book SynopsisThis four-month guided journal, drawn from the author’s best-selling works and more than 50 years of coaching clients, will help readers tap into their intuition with five-minute daily entries.If you want to experience a more meaningful, successful, productive, body- and soul-satisfying life, it all comes down to trusting your innate sixth sense—your “vibes,” short for “vibrations.” This is what intuition is: a natural intelligence we all possess that tunes in to energy in motion and uses this information to successfully navigate toward the best outcomes in all areas of life.The truth is we are always sensing our intuition. The problem arises when we ignore it, challenge it, dismiss it, or altogether tune out this incredible natural super-awareness. Just as ignoring any one of our other functioning senses would compromise our life, tuning out your intuitive guidance leads to equally, if not even more, potentially disastrous results.In all her years of teaching people, Sonia Choquette found the most empowering tool for activating intuitive intelligence comes from regularly writing down intuitive impulses. Once you do in a very short period, you will have undeniable evidence, written in your own hand, that your intuitive intelligence, the voice of your divine spirit, is exceptionally capable of guiding you to living the most extraordinary, beautiful life possible.The good news is you don’t have to put a lot of time into writing your intuitive impulses. In fact, the less time you think about it, the better. Writing quickly by hand a few minutes a day is all you need to activate this extraordinary superpower.That is the purpose of this journal. In it, you will find simple prompts that will help you turn inward to recognize and acknowledge the subtle guidance coming from your spirit. Spending just five minutes a day answering the prompts and questions in this journal will activate and strengthen your intuition and empower you with the most life-changing and extraordinary awareness you could ever imagine.
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Crescent House Cape to Cape: A 1,250-mile backpacking walk from
Book Synopsis`I was very grateful for today’s near perfect visibility and, despite the late hour, just had to sit down to take it all in.’ On a late April morning, lover of landscapes and professional geologist John Sutcliffe, approaching his 70th birthday, sets out on a backpacking trek from Cape Cornwall in South West England to Cape Wrath on the north-westerly tip of Scotland: a breathtaking 1,250-mile-long walk. Starting out along the sea cliffs of Cornwall and heading inland across the remote moor country of Dartmoor, Exmoor and the marshy Somerset Levels, John crosses into Wales and follows the delightful Welsh border to Shropshire. Continuing into the limestone dales of Derbyshire, he then treads the Pennine Way for 250 miles to the Scottish Borders, often sharing his campsite with the creatures of the night, facing unforeseen challenges and making new friends along the way. After traversing the Southern Uplands of Scotland and the Pentland Hills – hidden gems that many walkers overlook – he then follows the West Highland Way to Fort William where he clocks up 1,000 miles and takes a brief pause for his mother’s 100th birthday. Celebrations over, he sets out across the rugged and wonderfully remote North West Highlands of Ardgour, Knoydart, Torridon and Sutherland, exploring the bothy network along the Cape Wrath Trail and pitting himself against the elements with the onset of Hurricane Bertha. Whether wild camping with curlews or indulging in the occasional hot-shower luxury of a guest house en route, John furnishes his story with details of the cultural and political heritage and the geology underpinning the stunning landscapes encountered on his journey. Cape to Cape is an inspiring story of one man’s celebration of the diverse British countryside.Trade Review`An incredible feat, not just of tenacity and endurance but also of observation and narrative. Stories along the way abound in this one-man mission to straddle an island. I am deeply envious.’ (Mike Harding); `An entertaining story of a walk from Cape Cornwall to Cape Wrath. Captures well the spirit of solo backpacking. The author carries you along with him on his adventure. Lovely photos too.’ (Chris Townsend).Table of ContentsPreamble; Chapter 1 Cornwall to the Tamar; Chapter 2 Devon and Somerset to the Severn Bridge; Chapter 3 The Welsh Borders; Chapter 4 The Midlands; Chapter 5 The Derbyshire Dales; Chapter 6 The South Pennines; Chapter 7 The North Pennines and Cheviots; Chapter 8 Southern Scotland; Chapter 9 The West Highland Way; Chapter 10 The Cape Wrath Trail; Appendix 1 Equipment List; Appendix 2 Daily Log; Acknowledgements; List of Maps: Map 1 Cape to Cape, Map 2 South West England, Map 3 Welsh Borders to Derbyshire Dales, Map 4 The Pennine Way, Map 5 Southern Uplands to Scottish Highlands, Map 6 The Cape Wrath Trail.
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Pluto Press The Point is to Change the World
Book SynopsisAn inspiring collection from one of the Caribbean's most vital political figures.Trade Review'Andaiye was the most important Caribbean woman intellectual-activist of the generation of Walter Rodney. Her subtle, river-clear, loving and angry intelligence is rescued here, and with it the memory of the political struggles of the 1970s and 80s in which a critical feminism emerged from the ruins of the Black Power moment' -- Richard Drayton, Rhodes Professor of Imperial History at King's College London'It is not an exaggeration to say that this volume will occupy a vaunted place alongside the writings of C. L. R. James, Frantz Fanon, Aime Cesaire, Sylvia Wynter, Edouard Glissant, George Lamming, Kamau Brathwaite, Stuart Hall, and certainly Walter Rodney. And like her distinguished predecessors, Andaiye and her brilliant collaborator, Alissa Trotz, did not put this book together in order to gather dust in a library. The title says it all: The Point is to Change the World' -- Robin D.G. Kelley, author of 'Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination''This collection is a benchmark for the study of the Caribbean radical imagination' -- Clem Seecharan, Emeritus Professor of History at London Metropolitan University and author of 'Sweetening "Bitter Sugar": Jock Campbell, the Booker Reformer in British Guiana, 1934-66''A comprehensive assessment of Andaiye's journey of personal, political and professional growth. Notwithstanding her privileged position, she was a resolute advocate for working-class women. Her legacy as a Caribbean activist and strategist is formidable' -- Patricia Rodney, Chair of the Walter Rodney FoundationTable of ContentsFOREWORDS Andaiye’s Radical Imagination—with Special Reference to Hern Engagement with the Working People’s Alliance - Clem Seecharan Between Home and Street: Andaiye’s Revolutionary Vision - Robin D. G. Kelley The Principle of Justice as a Labor of Caring - Honor Ford-Smith Editor’s Note: On the Politics of Precision Preface and Acknowledgements Abbreviations PART ONE - LEARNING LESSONS FROM PAST ORGANIZING Section I - The Good and Bad of Some Earlier Feminist and Left Organizing in the Region 1. The Angle You Look from Determines What You See: Towards a Critique of Feminist Politics and Organizing in the Caribbean [2002] 2. The Historic Centrality of Mr. Slime: George Lamming’s Pursuit of Class Betrayal in Novels and Speeches [2003] 3. The Grenada Revolution, the Caribbean Left, and the Regional Women’s Movement: Preliminary Notes on One Journey [2010] 4. Conversations about Organizing: Revised Excerpts from an Interview with Andaiye by David Scott [2004] Section II - Notes on the Guyana Indian/African Race Divide, and on Organizing within and against it 5. 1964: The Rupture of Neighborliness and its Legacy for Indian/African Relations [2008; 2018] (with D. Alissa Trotz) 6. Organizing within and against Race Divides: Lessons from Guyana’s African Society for Cultural Relations with Independent Africa, Indian Political Revolutionary Associates, and the Early Working People’s Alliance [2008, 2017/2018] 7. Three Letters against Race Violence [2004, 2008] PART TWO - A DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE: STARTING WITH THE UNWAGED CARING WORK OF MAINLY WOMEN WE REACH ALL SECTORS Section I - Why and How to Count Unwaged Work 8. Valuing Unwaged Work: A Preparatory Brief for CARICOM Ministers Responsible for Women’s Affairs Attending the 4th World Conference on Women [1994] 9. Grassroots Women Learning to Count their Unwaged Work: Summary Report on a 2001–2002 Trial [2009] 10. Looking at the Legalization of Abortion from the Perspective of Women as Unwaged Carers [1993] Section II - Breaking the Frontier between Home and Street, Unwaged and Waged 11. Strike for a Millennium which Values all Women’s Work and all Women’s Lives: A Call to Action [2000] 12. The Impact of the IMF Structural Adjustment Programme on Women’s Unwaged Work and How We Can Resist It [c.mid-1980s] 13. Housewives and Other Carers in the Guyanese Resistance of the Late 1970s and Early 1980s: Looking Back [2010] 134 14. Four Letters in Defense of Workers, Unwaged and Waged, and their Families [2011, 2012, 2018] PART THREE - THE POLITICAL IN THE PERSONAL Section I - My Breast and Yours, and the Inequalities of Power 15. The War on Cancer as Seen by an Embattled Survivor [2017/2018] 16. Sister Survivor: For Audre Lorde [1992] Section II - Women and Depression: Auto/biographies 17. Asylum: Diary of the Last Seven Days in a Women’s Psychiatric Ward [c.1973] 18. M: A Daughter’s Tale [c.1982] Section III - Undomesticating Violence 19. Against the Beating of Children: Submission to a Parliamentary Sub-committee on the Corporal Punishment of Children [2013] 20. Three Letters against Sexual Violence against Children [2010] 21. Knife Edge: Living with Domestic and Economic Violence [2013] 22. Women as Collateral Damage in Race Violence [2002] 23. Sexual Violence is a Question of Whose Honor? [2000] 24. Sexual Abuse and the Uses of Power [2018] 25. Letter to the Police Complaints Authority on an Allegation of Rape against a Police Commissioner [2012] PART FOUR - TOWARDS STRENGTHENING THE MOVEMENT 26. Gender, Race, and Class: A Perspective on the Contemporary Caribbean Struggle [2009] Last Word 27. Walter Rodney’s Last Writing on and for the Guyanese Working People [2010] Afterword: Andaiye and the Caribbean Radical Organizing Tradition - Anthony Bogues Index
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New York University Press The Turks and the Caliphal Army
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Zondervan The Sacred Diary of Adrian Plass Aged 37 34
Book SynopsisSaturday, December 14thFeel led to keep a diary. A sort of spiritual log for the benefit of others in the future. Each new divine insight and experience will shine like a beacon in the darkness!Can't think of anything to put in today.Still, tomorrow's Sunday. Must be something on a Sunday, surely?Adrian Plass is hilarious, pure and simple. His readers are legion and this is the bestselling book that started it all, converting thousands of people who love to laugh into avid Plass readers.The Sacred Diary of Adrian Plass (aged 37 ) is merriment and facetiousness at its best a journal of the wacky Christian life of Plass's fictional alter-ego, who chronicles in his sacred' diary the daily goings-on in the lives of ordinary-but-somewhat-eccentric people he knows and meets. Reading it will doeth good like a medicine!
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Quercus Publishing Dear Dickhead
Book Synopsis"The book of the moment" Sunday TimesA Guardian Book of the Year"Highly entertaining . . . subtle and complex" Guardian"Despentes at her very best" New European"Full of emotional suspense" FT"Brilliant - funny, wise and completely addictive - a work of angry, outrageous and hilarious genius" VICTORIA HISLOP"Full of energy and blistering rationality" LISA McINERNEYAn FT Best books of 2024Dear Dickhead,I read the piece you posted on Insta. You''re like a pigeon shitting on my shoulder as you flap past. It''s shitty and unpleasant. Congratulations: you''ve had your fifteen minutes of fame! You want proof? Here I am writing to you.Rebecca Latté is a famous actress in her fifties, perhaps past the peak of her career.Oscar Jayack is a middle-aged, moderately successful author who, in the wake of the #MeToo movement, has been accused of sexual harassment by his former publicist-turned-feminist blogger Zoé Katana.When Oscar insults Rebecca''s appearance on Instagram, she sends a scorching reply and the pair fall into a spiral of mutual antipathy. In back-and-forth emails, they vie for the last word, finding common ground in their experiences of addiction, assessing the changing world around them as Covid locks down Paris, and reluctantly beginning to lean on one another.A novel of rage, irreverence and vulnerability, exploring ageing, gender, privilege, addiction and consent, Dear Dickhead is an excoriating encapsulation of our times and of the broken human beings trying to make sense of it.Translated from the French by Frank Wynne
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The History Press Ltd White P With the Jocks
Book Synopsis''The book is remarkable .... one of the most striking personal records of the period.'' - Max HastingsAs a 24-year-old lieutenant in the King''s Own Scottish Borderers, Peter kept an unauthorised journal of his regiment''s advance through the Low Countries and into Germany in the closing months of the war in Europe. Forbidden by his commanding officer from doing so for security reasons, Peter''s boyhood habit of diary keeping had become an obsession too strong to shake off. In this graphic evocation of a soldier at war, the images he records are not for the faint hearted.There are heroes aplenty within its pages, but there are also disturbing insights into the darker sides of humanity - the men who broke under the strain and who ran away; the binge drinking which occasionally rendered the whole platoon unable to fight; the looting, the rape, and the callous disregard for human life that happens when death is a daily companion. Hidden away for more than 50 years, this is a rare opportunity to read an authentic account of the horrors of war experienced by a British soldier in the greatest conflict of the 20th century.
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Alma Books Ltd Sakhalin Island
Book SynopsisIn 1890, the thirty-year-old Chekhov, already knowing that he was ill with tuberculosis, undertook an arduous eleven-week journey from Moscow across Siberia to the penal colony on the island of Sakhalin. Now collected here in one volume are the fully annotated translations of his impressions of his trip through Siberia and the account of his three-month sojourn on Sakhalin Island, together with his notes and extracts from his letters to relatives and associates. Highly valuable both as a detailed depiction of the Tsarist system of penal servitude and as an insight into Chekhov’s motivations and objectives for visiting the colony and writing the exposé, Sakhalin Island is a haunting work which had a huge impact both on Chekhov’s career and on Russian society.Trade ReviewAs a work of literature, Sakhalin Island is a masterpiece of restrained, dignified, unsentimental prose … a work of complete seriousness, full of clear, humane, practical suggestions for reform. * The Observer *Mr Reeve’s work reminds one that Chekhov was as great a master of the documentary genre – and also of the best academic prose – as of drama and narrative fiction … Sakhalin Island will never eclipse The Cherry Orchard. But it is every bit as impressive a masterpiece, and this new version will surely make its merits more widely known. * TLS *
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Schocken Books The Diaries of Franz Kafka
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Rockpool Publishing 2026 Lunar and Seasonal Planner Northern
Book SynopsisWork magic with the moon's phases with this beautiful planner from renowned witch Stacey Demarco
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The History Press Ltd Newton's Notebook: The Life, Times and
Book SynopsisNewton’s Notebook is a biography with a difference. It provides a full and detailed account of Sir Isaac Newton’s life and discoveries, but is written, designed and illustrated to look like a personal notebook.By mining the rich sources of Newton’s own journals and books, and incorporating a variety of quotations and illustrations, Newton’s Notebook brings its subject to life more vividly than any ordinary biography. It reveals the man behind the theories and examines Newton’s personal and family life as well as the amazing impact of his ideas and the world’s reaction to them.
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Broadview Press Ltd Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, an African
Book SynopsisA contemporary critic described Ignatius Sancho as “what is very uncommon for men of his complexion, A man of letters.” A London shopkeeper, former butler, and descendant of slaves, Sancho was the first author of African descent to have his correspondence published. He was also a critic of literature, music, and art; a composer; and an advocate for the abolition of slavery. Sancho’s letters reveal an avid reader and prolific author, and his epistolary style shows a sophisticated understanding of both private and public audiences. Even after the abolition of the slave trade, proponents of equal rights on both sides of the Atlantic continued to use Sancho as an exemplar of the intellectual and moral capacity of people of African descent.In addition to the annotated letters by Sancho, this edition includes Laurence Sterne's letters to Sancho, Sancho's surviving autograph writings, and a selection of the many eighteenth-century responses to Sancho and his letters.Trade Review“Vincent Carretta’s Broadview edition of Ignatius Sancho’s letters revises and expands his earlier editions of this important eighteenth-century Black British text. Bringing together both the published and the recently discovered unpublished letters, along with meticulous footnotes, a wealth of scholarly and contextual material, and an illuminating introduction, Carretta allows us to see Sancho more vividly than ever before. But at the heart of this edition are the letters themselves: sparkling, witty, and endlessly readable, they remain a fascinating insight into the life of an African at the heart of eighteenth-century literary London.” — Brycchan Carey, Kingston University“The first man of African descent to publish a book in English, and to vote in a parliamentary election, Ignatius Sancho enjoyed considerable fame in eighteenth-century society. His letters were praised, quite rightly, for their wit, charm, and sensibility—though he was, equally, a trenchant critic of slavery and empire. Vincent Carretta’s edition for Broadview will become the new authoritative text, providing attentive and erudite annotation and a full biographical introduction, alongside all Sancho’s known letters, both in print and manuscript—including those only discovered in the last decade. Sancho is justly served in this excellent edition, which is a full and fitting memorial to his life and writing.” — Markman Ellis, Queen Mary University of LondonTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionIgnatius Sancho: A Brief ChronologyA Note on the TextA Note on MoneyLetters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, An African. In Two Volumes. To which are prefixed, Memoirs of his Life.Volume IVolume IIAppendix A: Ignatius Sancho’s FamilyAppendix B: Ignatius Sancho’s Principal CorrespondentsAppendix C: List of LettersAppendix D: Laurence Sterne’s Correspondence with Ignatius Sancho Sancho to Sterne [21 July 1766] Sterne to Sancho [27 July 1766] Sterne to Sancho [16 May 1767] Sterne to Sancho [30 June 1767] Appendix E: Ignatius Sancho’s Autograph Letters Sancho to William Stevenson (26 November 1776) Sancho to William Stevenson (24 October 1777) Sancho to William Stevenson (22 October 1778) Sancho to William Stevenson (14 November 1778) Sancho to Reverend Seth Ellis Stevenson (5 December 1778) Sancho to William Stevenson (5 December 1778) Sancho to William Stevenson (14 December 1778) Sancho to (presumably) William Stevenson (19 December 1778) Sancho to Reverend Seth Ellis Stevenson (4 January 1779) Sancho to Reverend Seth Ellis Stevenson (14 January 1779) Sancho to William Stevenson (11 March 1779) Sancho to (presumably) William Stevenson (1 April 1779) Sancho to William Stevenson (16 November 1779) Sancho to William Stevenson (4 January 1780) Sancho to (presumably) William Stevenson (18 August 1780) Appendix F: Eighteenth-Century References to Ignatius Sancho, and Responses to Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, An African The Monthly Review, or, Literary Journal (November 1775) The Gentleman’s Magazine: and Historical Chronicle (January 1776) The Public Advertiser (4 June 1778) Edmund Rack (20 April 1779) A Manuscript Letter Dated 17 September 1779 from the Aspiring Author George Cumberland to His Brother Richard Dennison Cumberland, Vicar of Driffield in Gloucester County, Attests to Sancho’s Reputation as a Literary Critic (17 September 1779) Ewan Clark, Miscellaneous Poems, By Mr. Ewan Clark (1779) John Thomas Smith, Nollekens and His Times (1829) The Gazeteer, and New Daily Advertiser (15 December 1780) Anthony Highmore, Jr., “Epistle to Mr. J. H—, on the Death of his justly Lamented Friend, Ignatius Sancho” (1780-82) The Gentleman’s Magazine: and Historical Chronicle (April 1781) The Gentleman’s Magazine: and Historical Chronicle (May 1781) The Public Advertiser (9 August 1782) William Whitehead, British Poet Laureate Since 1757, in an August 1782 Letter to George Simon Harcourt, second Earl Harcourt (August 1782) A New Review; with Literary Curiosities, and Literary Intelligence (1782) The Gentleman’s Magazine (September 1782) The European Magazine and London Review (September 1782) The New Annual Register, or General Repository of History, Politics, and Literature, for the Year 1782 (1783) John Williams, Thoughts on the Origin, and on the Most Rational and Natural Method of Teaching Languages: with Some Observations on the Necessity of One Universal Language for All Works of Science (1783) The Monthly Review: or, Literary Journal (December 1783) The Critical Review: or, Annals of Literature (January 1784) Town and Country Magazine, or Universal Repository of Knowledge, Instruction, and Entertainment (February 1784) Elkanah Watson, Men and Times of the Revolution; or, Memoirs of Elkanah Watson. Including Journals of Travels in Europe and America, from 1777 to 1842 (1856) George Gregory, Essays Historical and Moral (1785) Joseph Woods, Thoughts on the Slavery of the Negroes (1784) James Tobin, Cursory Remarks upon the Reverend Mr. Ramsay’s Essay on the Treatment and Conversion of African Slaves in the Sugar Colonies. By a Friend of the West India Colonies, and their Inhabitants (1785) Thomas Clarkson, An Essay on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species, Particularly the African, Translated from a Latin Dissertation, which was honoured with the first Prize in the University of Cambridge, for the Year 1785 (1786) Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia (1787) Thomas Cooper, Letters on the Slave Trade: First Published in Wheeler’s Manchester Chronicle; and since Re-printed with Additions and Alterations (1787) “Civis,” The Morning Chronicle, and London Advertiser (5 February 1788) “Civis,” The Morning Chronicle, and London Advertiser (19 August 1788) The Massachusetts Spy: Or, The Worcester Gazette (4 December 1788) William Mason, An Occasional Discourse, Preached in the Cathedral of St. Peter in York, January 27, 1788, on the Subject of the African Slave-Trade (1788) Peter Peckard, Am I not a Man and a Brother? (1788) Jacques-Pierre Brissot de Warville, A Critical Examination of the Marquis de Chatellux’s Travels in North America ... Principally Intended as a Refutation of his Opinions Concerning the Quakers, the Negroes, the People, and Mankind (1788) The County Magazine, for the Years 1786 and 1787 (1788) “Clericus,” The Country Curate; or, Letters from Clericus to Benevolus (1788) William Dickson, Letters on Slavery (1789) Richard Nisbet, The Capacity of Negroes for Religious and Moral Improvement Considered (1789) Thomas Burgess, Considerations on the Abolition of Slavery and the Slave Trade, upon Grounds of Natural, Religious, and Political Duty (1789) Fortescue; or, The Soldier’s Reward: A Characteristic Novel (1789) Elizabeth Bentley, from “On the Abolition of the African Slave-Trade. July, 1789,” in Genuine Poetical Compositions, on Various Subjects (1791) Clara Reeve, Plans of Education; with Remarks on the Systems of Other Writers. In a Series of Letters between Mrs. Darnford and Her Friends (1792) Alexander Chalmers, A New and General Biographical Dictionary: Containing an Historical, Critical, and Impartial Account of the Lives and Writings of the Most Eminent Persons in Every Nation of the World (1795) John Gabriel Stedman, Narrative of a Five Years Expedition against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam (1796) William Stevenson in John Nichols, Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century (1815) Select Bibliography
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Faber & Faber The Letters of T S Eliot Volume 5 19301931
Book Synopsis''The book amounts to a comprehensive literary history of the time.'' David Sexton, Evening StandardVolume 5 of The Letters of T. S. Eliot finds the poet, between the ages of forty-two and forty-four, reckoning with the strict implications of his Christian faith for his life, his work, and his poetry.The letters between Eliot and his associates, family and friends - his correspondents range from the Archbishop of York and the American philosopher Paul Elmer More to the writers Virginia Woolf, Herbert Read and Ralph Hodgson - serve to illuminate the ways in which his Anglo-Catholic convictions could, at times, prove a self-chastising and even alienating force. ''Anyone who has been moving among intellectual circles and comes to the Church, may experience an odd and rather exhilarating feeling of isolation,'' he remarks. Notwithstanding, he becomes fully involved in doctrinal controversy: he espouses the Church as an arena of discipline a
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Harvard University Press Wild Grass and Morning Blossoms Gathered at Dusk
Book SynopsisLu Xun was China’s greatest literary modernist and a key thinker of the early twentieth century. This new translation assembles some of Lu Xun’s essays and experimental writings little known to English readers—works of profound imagination that seek to find beauty and meaning in an unjust world.Trade ReviewCheng utilizes her freedom as a translator to render Lu Xun’s works as beautiful in English as they are in Chinese…Demystifying his writing, Cheng captures the magic, somberness, humor, and lyricism of his works, demonstrating that wisdom and playfulness coexist as often as they are diametrically opposed. This book is not just a testament to Cheng’s brilliance as a translator, but also to her masterful understanding of his works. * Columbia Journal of Literary Criticism *Splendid…Inward-looking and ruminative. -- Nicky Harman * Asian Books Blog *In this fresh and vivid translation, we behold an amazing mind at work. Rich, daring, haunting, and personal, these volumes are nothing short of revelatory. -- Gish JenTwo unique works from Lu Xun’s oeuvre—an experiment in prose poetry partially inspired by Baudelaire, Nietzsche, and Buddhism, and a personal memoir that compares with Benjamin’s Berlin Childhood—are rendered in lucid and very readable English and collected in one volume, together with comprehensive and insightful introductions. A sizable achievement from an experienced translator and Lu Xun scholar. -- Leo Ou-fan LeeA very timely publication. The first translation of these works in over four decades offers a more accurate, fluent rendering that will be welcomed by students of Chinese literature and enjoyed by many general readers. Explanatory footnotes throughout will also be a great help to those new to Lu Xun. -- Carlos Rojas
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Orion Publishing Co The John Lennon Letters: Edited and with an
Book SynopsisA lifetime of letters, collected for the first time, from the legendary The Beatles musician and songwriter John LennonJohn Lennon is one of the world's greatest-ever song writers, creator of 'Help!', 'Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds', 'Imagine' and dozens more. Now, his letters have been collected and published, illuminating as never before the intimate side of a private genius.Hunter Davies, author of the only authorised biography of The Beatles, has tracked down almost three hundred of Lennon's letters and postcards - to relations, friends, fans, strangers, lovers and even to the laundry. Some of the letters are tender, informative, funny, angry and abusive, and some are simply heart-breaking - from his earliest surviving thank-you note, written when he was ten, to his last scribbled autograph given on 8 December 1980, the day he was shot, aged forty.
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Faber & Faber The Letters of T. S. Eliot Volume 1 18981922
Book SynopsisVolume One of the Letters of T. S. Eliot, edited by Valerie Eliot in 1988, covered the period from Eliot''s childhood in St Louis, Missouri, to the end of 1922, by which time he had settled in England, married and published The Waste Land. Since 1988, Valerie Eliot has continued to gather materials from collections, libraries and private sources in Britain and America, towards the preparation of subsequent volumes of the Letters edition. Among new letters to have come to light, a good many date from the years 1898-1922, which has necessitated a revised edition of Volume One, taking account of approximately two hundred newly discovered items of correspondence.The new letters fill crucial gaps in the record, notably enlarging our understanding of the genesis and publication of The Waste Land. Valuable, too, are letters from the earlier and less documented part of Eliot''s life, which have been supplemented by additional correspondenc
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Yale University Press The Tchaikovsky Papers
Book SynopsisTrade Review“Essential in filling out a more humane and complete portrait of the composer and his art.”—Jeremy Eichler, The Boston Globe“These newly translated documents provide deeper insight both into Tchaikovsky himself, and the family circle and larger society in which he was active.”—Rebecca Mitchell, Canadian-American Slavic Studies“This English-language version of the ground-breaking original Russian text has been prepared with great skill and care. The notes are particularly admirable, and the translations of the letters and other documents impeccable”– Arnold McMillin, The Slavonic and East European ReviewWinner of the Outstanding Academic Title for 2018 award sponsored by Choice"We are now at home with much that was once taboo about Tchaikovsky—his tsarist loyalties, his homosexuality, how he died. But the Sentimentalism of his letters, its emotional register, still startles the modern reader. This revealing collection helps us see that how one writes letters is only a small part of who one is."—Caryl Emerson, Princeton University“This collection of finely translated letters, documents, and musical mementos moves Tchaikovsky considerably beyond the vapid biographical clichés of yesteryear. Turns out, the genius was also a human being —funny, coarse, germaphobic, borderline alcoholic, with great friends and supportive siblings. Gay? Fine by them.”—Simon Morrison, Princeton University"This indispensable volume, containing copious unpublished private correspondence, allows us to gain an unparalleled insight into Tchaikovsky as a human being, and thus move beyond the clichés surrounding the composer’s biography." —Rosamund Bartlett, author of Tolstoy: A Russian Life
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Faber & Faber Sergey Prokofiev Diaries 19241933
Book SynopsisThe third and final volume of Prokofiev's Diaries covers the years 1924 to 1933 when he was living in Paris. Intimate accounts of the successes and disappointments of a great creative artist at the heart of the European arts world between the two world wars jostle with witty and trenchant commentaries on the personalities who made up this world. The Diaries document the complex emotional inner world of a Russian exile uncomfortably aware of the nature of life in Stalin's Russia yet increasingly persuaded that his creative gifts would never achieve full maturity separated from the culture, people and land of his birthplace. Since even Prokofiev knew that the USSR was hardly the place to commit inner reflections to paper, the Diaries come to an end after June 1933 although it would be another three years before he, together with his wife and children, finally exchanged the free if materially uncertain life of a cosmopolitan Parisian celebrity for Soviet citizenshiTrade Review'The third and final instalment of Prokofiev's diaries . . . in AnthonyPhillips's excellently clear translation . . . These diaries are addictive andthe effect of not seeing the life through his eyes anymore is a wrench . . . Astupendous work.' - Alexander Waugh, Literary Review'Should appeal well beyond Prokofiev's immediate fan base to readers intriguedby the siren song of Christian Science and / or sympatheticoutsider's take on the Diaghilev set.' - David Gutman, Gramphone
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Columbia University Press Expatriates of No Country
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Faber & Faber Letters of Sylvia Plath Volume II
Book SynopsisSylvia Plath (1932-1963) was one of the writers who defined the course of twentieth-century poetry. Alongside a selection of photographs and Plath's own drawings, they masterfully contextualise what the pages disclose.This later correspondence witnesses Plath and Hughes becoming major, influential contemporary writers, as it happened.
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HarperCollins Publishers Passage Across the Mersey
Book SynopsisThe remarkable story of Helen Forrester, author of Twopence to Cross the Mersey, and how she turned tragedy to triumph.When Helen Forrester's father went bankrupt in the 1930's, she and her six siblings fell from a comfortable middle-class existence into wretched poverty. Later in life, Helen wrote a ground-breaking series of memoirs, starting with Twopence to Cross the Mersey, which told the harrowing account of her family's struggles in Depression-era Liverpool. It was a story filled with tragedy and small triumphs but many readers wondered what happened to Helen when she grew up; what became of the fragile young girl who had so much responsibility heaped on her shoulders?Now for the first time, her son Robert recounts the unexpected life that Helen went on to live; of the remarkable love story with a young man from a background a million miles away from everything a Lancashire Lass like Helen would have known and of the astonishing lengths she went to in order to achieve happiness. Trade ReviewPraise for Helen Forrester: ‘It was the biography that I would have written if my parents had not been given benefits, if they’d had to rely on parish hand outs … [I] want to press this book into your hands and go, “You must read this”.’ Caitlin Moran ‘Remarkable that from so bleak and unloving a background came a writer of such affectionate understanding and unsettling honesty’ Sunday Telegraph ‘What makes this writer’s self-told tale so memorable?… An absolute recall, a genius for the unforgettable detail, the rare chance of subject’The Good Book Guide 'Should be long and widely read as an extraordinary human story and social document' Observer
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Ebury Publishing Letters From A Nut
Book SynopsisSpoof letter writing has a long history from Lazlo Toth to Henry Root but nothing can prepare you for the uniquely surreal and endearing world of Ted L Nancy. A kind of Trigger Happy correspondence, his innocent requests, queries, complaints, demands and suggestions to hotels, airlines, multi-national corporations, local government and department stores are so absurd it is amazing they fool anyone - but often the deadpan responses are even more hilarious. Ted wants to know if he can graft his big toe onto his nose, why his wife left him while he was in a coma for another man in a coma, and if he can consummate his marriage in the administrative office of the chapel. He writes to hotels telling them he eats his mattress. He writes to casinos to ask if his band the ''Fat Beatles'' can perform and if he can stay in their hotel dressed as a bladder. Utterly addictive and wet-yourself-in-a-public-place funny: Dear Business Permits Dept: I want to apply for a business permit in your fTrade Reviewvery funny * Hot Stars, OK Magazine *A collection of crazed correspondence by Ted L. Nancy. The name is a pseudonym, perhaps for Jerry Seinfeld, who wrote the introduction. Seinfeld never comes clean, but the letters have his prints all over them * Amazon.com *
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Penguin Books Ltd Henry James
Book SynopsisJames''s correspondents included presidents and prime ministers, painters and great ladies, actresses and bishops, and the writers Robert Louis Stevenson, H.G. Wells and Edith Wharton. This fully-annotated selection from James''s eloquent correspondence allows the writer to reveal himself and the fascinating world in which he lived. The letters provide a rich and fascinating source for James'' views on his own works, on the literary craft, on sex, politics and friendship. Together they constitute, in Philip Horne''s own words, James'' ''real and best biography''.
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Penguin Books Ltd Poems and Letters Selections with the 1550 Vasari
Book SynopsisMichelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564) is universally celebrated as one of the greatest artists of all time, yet iconic Renaissance creator was also a prolific and gifted poet. The verses collected here are primarily devoted to love and religion. Intense and passionate, the love poems focus on two figures: Tommaso de Cavalieri and Vittoria Colonna; with the sonnets and madrigals dedicated to de Cavalieri revealing a highly charged, homoerotic fervour - previously obscured in the original versions. Michelangelo''s later religious poetry moves away from his earlier wordly concerns, while his letters provide a fasicnating insight into his fanily relations and day-to-day life as a working artist. The result is a revealing picture of one of the towering figures of the Renaissance.
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Penguin Books Ltd A Little Order Selected Journalism Penguin Modern
Book SynopsisWhether celebrating Hogarth or savaging Hollywood, mocking modern manners or defending traditional English architecture, inviting readers to ''come inside'' the Catholic Church or expressing his contempt for modish Marxism and American-style religion, Evelyn Waugh''s journalism is sparkling, sometimes vitriolic and always full of good sense. In this wonderful selection he explores his Oxford youth, his unexpected conversion, his literary enthusiasms (from P. G. Wodehouse to Graham Greene) and the perils of basing fictional characters on real people. Decades after their publication, these pieces still retain their capacity to delight, to surprise and to shock.
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Penguin Books Ltd A Life in Letters
Book SynopsisNobel Prize-winning author John Steinbeck is remembered as one of the greatest and best-loved American writers of the twentieth century. His complete works are available in Penguin Modern Classics.
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Oxford University Press The Chronicles of John Cannon Excise Officer and
Book SynopsisJohn Cannon, known to some as ''the poor man''s Pepys'', was the self-taught son of a Somerset farmer. Though some episodes in Cannon''s life have been partially drawn upon in other studies, this edition is the first full scale study enabling Cannon and his world to be understood in their entirety.The manuscript he wrote over nearly 60 years offers a remarkably candid autobiography, crowded with people of all ranks in hundreds of different places, roles and occupations. His Chronicles also record virtually all aspects of change, at a social level seldom so continuously documented in any period, as they were experienced and observed in significant regions of the country, during a crucial span of British history. Part 1 includes Cannon''s unique personal account of Country Excise, in the Thames Valley, and back in Somerset. The extended Introduction places Cannon and his Chronicles in all their contexts. (Part 2 covers the period 1734-1743.)Trade ReviewThe "Chronicles" provide not just a remarkable insight into the material, mental and moral world of one individual, but also of the period in which he lived... an incredibly rich source, and the British Academy and the Oxford University Press are to be congratulated for making this superb edition of it available. Equally, John Money is to be thanked for his massively erudite, at appropriate points witty, and unfailingly sympathetic editorial work. * James Sharpe, Times Literary Supplement *
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Oxford University Press Navigating the Old English Poor Law
Book SynopsisThis edition of over 600 letters written by or for the poor in the early nineteenth-century Cumbrian town of Kirkby Lonsdale provides a unique window onto the experiences, views and conditions of a much-neglected group in English society. At the most human level, these letters are replete with sickness and suffering, the inability of mothers and fathers to fulfil their basic roles, claims that people were starving and naked, writers who were at death''s door and those who were homeless and desperate. The letters also provide a sense of the emotional landscape of those who have largely escaped the attention of historians of emotion. Here we find anger, suffering, gratitude, hopelessness, fear, humiliation and humility, largely in the words and voice of those who experienced such emotions. And above all we find agency - a group of poor people and their advocates who were willing and able, indeed saw it as their right, to challenge those who administered welfare and attempt to shape a sysTrade ReviewAn impressively rich resource of primary sources ... It is simultaneously fascinating and depressing to see the historical problems of poverty that echo today ... providing an enriched understanding of the workings of an historic system of poor relief. * Gráinne McKeever, Journal of Social Security Law *This edition of primary sources is a welcome addition to the history of English welfare... * Samantha Williams, Family & Community History *This collection provides thought-provoking insights into the workings of the Old Poor Law. * Rechtsgeschichte - Legal History *Table of ContentsList of Figures Acknowledgements Introduction THE KIRKBY LONSDALE LETTERS, 1809-1836 Bibliography Index
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Oxford University Press Catherine the Great Selected Letters
Book SynopsisCatherine the Great ruled Russian from 1762 until her death in 1796. Her letters provide an intimate history of the Russian state as well as a portrait of her character and qualities.Trade ReviewThese selected letters are an irresistible encapsulation of emergent Russia in the mid-to-late eighteenth century and involve the principal players in Europe during the Age of Reason. This volume, with its careful annotation by Kahn and Rubin-Detlev, is a valuable companion to Catherine the Great scholarship. * Patrick Hunt, Comitatus: A Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies *With their wide range of correspondents and topics, these letters, which have been ably translated, will help further understanding of this most charismatic of Russian rulers, whose tastes and personality helped shape Enlightenment Europe. * Vera Proskurina (2019) Catherine the great: selected letters, Women's Writing *Table of ContentsIntroduction Note on the Text and Translation Select Bibliography A Chronology of the Life and Reign of Catherine the Great SELECTED LETTERS Explanatory Notes Gazetteer
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Oxford University Press The Court Journals and Letters of Frances Burney
Book SynopsisThe fifth of six volumes that will present in their entirety Frances Burney's journals and letters from July 1786, when she assumed the position of Keeper of the Robes to Queen Charlotte, to her resignation in July 1791. This volume brings together the letters and journals of 1789.Trade ReviewThe Facinations of this volume lie in these occasional flashes of the Burney of Evelina and Cecilia, and the way, almost by accident, she reveals court life at its most regressive - snobbish, insular, gossipy. * Kate Chisholm, Times Literary Supplement *Immaculately edited, generously footnoted and with a comprehensive introduction. * Maggie Lane, Burney Letter *Table of ContentsCOURT JOURNALS AND LETTERS OF FRANCES BURNEY
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Oxford University Press Selected Letters Oxford Worlds Classics
Book SynopsisKeats's letters are 'the most notable and most important ever written by any English poet' (T. S. Eliot). This new edition revises and updates Robert Gittings's selection and includes 170 letters, a new introduction and notes, list of correspondents and full index
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Oxford University Press Inc John Quincy Adams and the Politics of Slavery
Book SynopsisJohn Quincy Adams''s remarkable diary is an unusually accessible window into the thinking of a president long before, during, and well after his own administration. It is enormous in scope--examining all subjects that came to Adams''s interest and stretching from the late 1780s to his death in 1848. David Waldstreicher and Matthew Mason produce an edition of the diary that is not only of accessible length but also focused on one issue: the politics of slavery. Adams''s long journey from nationalist diplomacy to culture war with the southern plantocracy is not well understood. How did the man who in 1795 told a British cabinet officer not to speak to him of the Virginians, the Southern people, the democrats, whom he considered in no other light than as Americans, come to predict a grand struggle between slavery and freedom? How could an expansionist who had left his party and lost his U.S. Senate seat rather than attack the Jeffersonian slave power, later come to declare the Mexican WarTrade ReviewThe diary should help [readers] understand [Adams's] conflicting commitment to the nation his father helped create and its Constitution, in which slavery was embedded....Adams's argument is often visible in the illuminating diary entries [the authors] provide."--Wall Street Journal "This meticulously annotated selection from the diaries of our sixth president reads like the banner headlines of today's news reports of political intrigue, raw ambitions and the same existential crisis that divides our nation today....The diary entries have a dramatic climax to them that would be worthy of a serious film treatment by someone. In the meantime this book is a great read and an informative reality check on issues that vex us even now."--Washington Times "The editors have shown discerning judgment in the material they have chosen for their pages. In a thoughtful and judicious introduction, they have spelled out the historiographical odyssey of the diary as well as the motivation governing Adams's own relations with slavery and the South. On the latter point they deserve special commendation in a time when many tout John Quincy as an antislavery hero with little thought to the complex road he took to reach that place."--Civil War Book Review "Provides important insight into John Quincy Adams's views on the most divisive issue of his generation. Waldstreicher's and Mason's work should command an impressive place on the growing shelf of works exploring the life of the sixth president."--Civil War Monitor "This book will no doubt prove to be a valuable resource for researchers in numerous academic disciplines on questions related to Adams, slavery in the United States, and 19th-century US foreign policy."--CHOICETable of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1: Rising Son of the Young Republic (1767-1808) Chapter 2: American Diplomat (1809-1817) Chapter 3: Secretary of State (1817-1824) Chapter 4: The Making and Unmaking of a President (1824-1829) Chapter 5: The Making of an Antislavery Congressman (1829-1836) Chapter 6: Antislavery Whig Congressman (1836-1848) Bibliography Index
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Indiana University Press Between Home and the Front Civil War Letters of
Book SynopsisBetween Home and the Front offers not only a unique first-person account from those that experienced the Civil War but an annotation in meticulous detail to provide valuable historical context for the events, people, and material culture described in the letters.Trade Review"Between Home and the Front uses the words of the Walters family to bring a uniquely personal perspective to the suffering and sacrifices of the American Civil War. This well-referenced book uses letters, maps, and background information to illuminate one family's experiences and losses—the same kind of experiences and losses felt by millions due to war, both then and now."—Terry Reimer, Director of Research, National Museum of Civil War Medicine"Between Home and the Front stands out amid the many published collections of Civil War correspondence in numerous ways. These letters vibrantly capture the daily lives and emotional strains of countless ordinary Americans during the war years. They reflect not just one soldier's experience but a rich network of correspondents: spouses, siblings, and friends. Especially fascinating is the role played by Rachel Walters, farmer's wife-turned-schoolteacher, in orchestrating communications among relations scattered by the upheavals of war. Heidelbaugh and Paone's careful attention to all aspects of this distinctive archive—from its military and social contexts to the materiality of its envelopes—has given us an exceptional primary-source collection that will prove eye opening for any student of the Civil War."—Christopher Hager, Trinity College"This unique collection of letters offers an exceptional glimpse into one Indiana family's tragic Civil War experiences. Taking readers across the eastern and western theaters, the chase for John Hunt Morgan in Ohio, and into the northern home front, Between Home and the Front provides a broad view of the war and will be a boon for scholars and general readers alike."—Jonathan W. White, author of A House Built By Slaves: African American Visitors to the Lincoln White HouseTable of ContentsFamily TreesMapsAcknowledgmentsAbout the Letters1. Introduction2. 1861–18623. 18634. 18645. 1865 and Post-War YearsEpilogueAfterwordBibliographyIndex
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Yale University Press Diary
Book SynopsisA single-volume edition of Diary, Gombrowicz's acclaimed masterpiece, now with previously unpublished pages restoredTrade Review“Ferdydurke is certainly a spontaneous work, but the Diary is even more so, and . . . even more rewarding.”—John Bayley, New York Review of Books“A heroic translation. . . . English-speaking readers can finally experience the Diary as Gombrowicz intended it—as a single, coherent work . . . his major creative endeavor.”—Ruth Franklin, New Yorker“Having this book in my hands, I felt a joy at the thought that strong personalities, like that of Gombrowicz, sooner or later find recognition thanks to the sheer intensity of their existence.”—Czeslaw Milosz, New York Times“If ever a life demanded a diary, this was one.”—Paul West, Washington Post“Yale University Press by reprinting in a beautiful fat paperback an updated, complete edition of the Diaries of Witold Gombrowicz has done a singular important, essential and remarkable job.”—Thomas McGonigle, ABC of Reading“Widely considered the Polish author’s masterpiece . . . the Diary lacks for nothing: history, politics, philosophy, literature, art, music, love, death, humor, communism, Poland, Europe, writing—everything is there.”—Paris Review Daily“The new complete version of Witold Gombrowicz’s Diary is one jubilant, gruesome, unsparing self-portrait.”—Adam Thirlwell, New Statesman
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Yale University Press The Kremlin Letters
Book SynopsisA penetrating account of the dynamics of World War II's Grand Alliance through the messages exchanged by the Big Three Stalin exchanged more than six hundred messages with Allied leaders Churchill and Roosevelt during the Second World War. In this riveting volumethe fruit of a unique British-Russian scholarly collaborationthe messages are published and also analyzed within their historical context. Ranging from intimate personal greetings to weighty salvos about diplomacy and strategy, this book offers fascinating new revelations of the political machinations and human stories behind the Allied triumvirate. Edited and narrated by two of the world's leading scholars on World War II diplomacy and based on a decade of research in British, American, and newly available Russian archives, this crucial addition to wartime scholarship illuminates an alliance that really worked while exposing its fractious limits and the issues and egos that set the stage for the Cold War that followed.Trade Review“Illuminating and insightful. . . . An indispensable resource.” —Jonathan W. Jordan, Wall Street Journal"This is a masterful work of history. It should be read by anyone who wants to understand how the world we live in was shaped not only by the whole sequence of events of 1941-45, but also by the thoughts and feelings of just three extraordinary individuals." —Noel Malcolm, Sunday Telegraph“Fresh and valuable insights into the way Stalin drafted and edited his messages.” — Tony Barber, Financial Times (Books of the Year 2018)“David Reynolds and Vladimir Pechatnov have done a superbly scholarly job in documenting the relationships Stalin had with Churchill and with Franklin Roosevelt through their epistolary contact.” — Simon Heffer, The Daily Telegraph“Two eminent scholars have produced a fascinating and detailed narrative of the war’s decision-making that embeds the leaders’ correspondence and memoirs into other archival material.” —Jonathan Steele, The GuardianThis remarkable book collects the wartime correspondence Churchill and Roosevelt received from Stalin – more than 600 letters. Anyone wishing to understand how the Allied powers brought about Hitler’s defeat must read it — Daily Telegraph“This is a big book in every sense of the word [. . .] Highly recommended” —Peter Howson, Methodist Recorder“It is welcome that this book has been produced. The authoritative version of the message texts makes a significant contribution to the scholarship of the period” —Max Hastings, London Review of Books“The Kremlin Letters is a remarkable book, one that is not only informative, but also a pleasure to read, thanks in large part to the ongoing narrative that the editors and authors provide.” —David B Woolner, Irish Times“David Reynolds and Vladimir Pechatnov have rendered an outstanding service and annotating the letters with a keen critical eye and a lucid grasp of the historical issues surrounding their writing and reception” —Richard Overy, Literary Review “The book [. . .] constitutes a publication in full of the major part of the Stalin–Churchill–Roosevelt correspondence from 1941 to 1945, showing alterations in successive drafts and accompanied by a detailed running commentary drawing on multi-archival research”— Sheila Fitzpatrick, Australian Book Review“The Kremlin Letters is an invaluable addition to the history of the Second World War and the origins of the Cold War.”— Margaret MacMillan, Times Literary Supplement“It would not be too far a stretch to claim that the messages between Stalin and his British and US counterparts are perhaps the most important correspondences in modern history. This incredible insight into this critical channel of communication was always going to be fascinating, but is remarkably riveting too.”—John Ash, Britain at War“[An] important contribution to understanding the Soviet point of view during World War Two”—Michael Jabara Carley, Slavonic & East European ReviewWinner of the 2020 Link-Kuehl Prize, sponsored by the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations"A must-have volume for anyone seeking to elucidate the interplay between Stalin, Churchill and Roosevelt between 1941 and 1945. The meticulous research of Professor David Reynolds and Professor Vladimir Pechatnov is a unique Anglo-Russian collaboration based on archival material in Russia, the UK and the USA. But this book offers not just the raw material of the key missives between the three leaders. It also provides a detailed commentary explaining the often constrained language of diplomacy and sets it within the context of what was happening at the time. It presents an Anglophone audience with a compelling and comprehensive account of the triangular network of exchanges at the top level which helped shape this vital period of the Second World War.”—Bridget Kendall“The fascinating wartime correspondence between Stalin, Churchill and Roosevelt is set in historical context by its meticulous editors in an admirably succinct and perceptive narrative: a model of Anglo-Russian scholarly cooperation.”—Sir Rodric Braithwaite“This book will be of great value for historians as an excellent archival reconstruction of an important historical source. In addition to its thorough research, broader audiences it will find it an exciting read. The story of these three world leaders unveils the secrets of politics in the most terrible of wars.”—Oleg Khlevniuk"Is there anything more to learn from the World War II correspondence of Stalin, Churchill, and Roosevelt? I'd have wondered before reading this volume, but Vladimir Pechatnov, David Reynolds, and their international research team have changed my mind. For not only is The Kremlin Letters filled with new information: it's also a pioneering effort to embed documents within a single sustained narrative, all the more compelling for the collaborations that produced it. Which simultaneously give it precision, great sweep, and best of all freshness—a magnificent accomplishment!"—John Lewis Gaddis, Yale University“Here the leading British and Russian historians of the Grand Alliance present a gripping and all-encompassing documentary history of Stalin’s relations with Churchill and Roosevelt during the Second World War. A feast of scrupulous research, The Kremlin Letters rewrites the history of the War as we knew it.”—Gabriel Gorodetsky, Quondam Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford and editor of The Maisky Diaries
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Cambridge University Press The Letters of Sidney and Beatrice Webb
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Cambridge University Press The Correspondence of Isaac Newton
Book SynopsisThis fifth volume presents the surviving correspondence from the period of almost four years which is, from a bibliographical point of view, the most important time in Newton's life: with Roger Cotes, Newton revised his Philosophise Naturalis Principia Mathematics and saw it through the press.Table of ContentsPreface; A Note on the Manuscripts used in this Volume; The Correspondence.
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