Published diaries, letters and journals Books

Book SynopsisA tragic family history told in a collection of imaginary letters to a famed collector, Moïse de Camondo.63 rue de Monceau, ParisDear friend,As you may have guessed by now, I am not in your house by accident. I know your street rather well.Count Moïse de Camondo lived a few doors away from Edmund de Waal's forebears, the Ephrussi, first encountered in his bestselling memoir, The Hare with Amber Eyes. Like the Ephrussi, the Camondos were part of belle epoque high society. They were also targets of antisemitism.Camondo created a spectacular house and filled it with the greatest private collection of French eighteenth-century art for his son, Nissim, to inherit. But when Nissim was killed in the First World War, it became a memorial and, upon the Count's death, was bequeathed to France.The Musée Nissim de Camondo has remained unchanged since 1936. De Waal explores the lavish rooms and detailed archives and uncovers new layers

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Book SynopsisDiaries capture the most intimate and revealing aspects of diarists' perception of themselves and the world around them. Throughout history, fiction writers have turned to the diary genre to maximize the intimacy and credibility of their narratives and to tell stories that bridge the personal and the social.This collection is the first to make visible the historical and global scope of short stories that use diaries as a structuring form or thematic inspiration. The book gathers twenty stories that span three centuries, from ten different countries and seven different languages. Although written in a range of styles from Romanticism to science fiction to Gothic to climate fiction, these stories cohere around key diary themes: privacy and publicity, self-discovery and self-delusion, love and sexuality, gender roles and social codes, time and technology, among others. Featuring an introduction to diary fiction, guiding headnotes, and a list of additional recommended reading, Danie

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Book SynopsisChristine Schmidt is Deputy Director and Head of Research at The Wiener Holocaust Library, UK. She is the co-editor, with Suzanne Bardgett and Dan Stone, of Beyond Camps and Forced Labour (2021).Clara Dijkstra is a PhD Candidate in Modern European History at the University of Cambridge, UK.Charlie Knight is a PhD Candidate at the University of Southampton, UK.Sandra Lipner is a PhD Candidate at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK.

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Book SynopsisRoman Letters offers a rich selection of original translations of ancient Roman letters spanning from the 1st century BCE to the 2nd century CE. Chronologically arranged and grouped according to author or collection, the letters cover various topics and themes selected from a broad range of authors. A unique single volume text that makes classical letters accessible and readable to undergraduates and the non-specialist reader Presents a wide range of authors and material, with over 200 selected texts Includes selections that illustrate a complete cycle of correspondence, as well as letters written by the same author and covering the same topic/theme but sent to different recipients Letters are arranged chronologically, with letters grouped according to author or collection An accompanying website offers additional, complementary letters Topical index highlights various topics and themes representeTable of ContentsList of Figures ix Preface x Acknowledgments xiii A Note on Translation xv List of Abbreviations xvii Maps xix 1 Letters and Letter-Writing in Ancient Rome 1 2 The Roman Republic (70 bce–27 bce) 21 1–49 Cicero 21 50 Catiline 61 51–53 Catullus 62 3 The Augustan Age (27 bce–14 ce) 66 54–58 Augustus 66 59–69 Horace 68 70–71 Propertius 79 72–83 Ovid 81 4 The Roman Empire (14 ce–third century ce) 96 84 Emperor Tiberius (14–37 ce) 96 85 Emperor Claudius (41–54 ce) 97 86–95 Seneca the Younger 99 96 Paul the Apostle 112 97 Jude 114 98–101 Martial 115 102–105 Statius 117 106–164 Pliny the Younger 122 165–166 John the Elder 154 167–194 Fronto 156 195–203 Letters from Vindolanda 169 204–214 Papyri 173 5 Epistolary Theorists 183 215 (Pseudo-)Demetrius 183 216 Pseudo-Libanius 184 General Index 187 Concordance of Texts 193

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