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Book SynopsisA look at the life of this incredible man, from his birth, his ground-breaking publications and far-flung travels, Darwinism and his theories on evolution, all the way to his final days.

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Book SynopsisA unique collection of the public and private words and thoughts of one of American''s greatest presidents. In addition to being one of the most admired and successful politicians in history, Abraham Lincoln was also a gifted writer whose speeches, eulogies, and addresses are both quoted often and easily recognizable all around the world. Arranged chronologically into topics such as family and friends, the law, politics and the presidency, story-telling, religion, and morality, Lincoln''s Notebooks includes his famous letters to Ulysses S. Grant, Horace Greeley, and Henry Pierce, as well as personal letters to Mary Todd Lincoln and his note to Mrs. Bixby, the mother who lost five sons during the Civil War. Also included are full texts of the Gettysburg Address, the Emancipation Proclamation, both of Lincoln''s inaugural addresses, and his famous A House Divided speech. Additionally, rarely seen writings like poetry he composed as teenager give insig

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Book SynopsisThis two-volume book is a collection of previously unpublished primary sources about Japan in the years around the 1868 Meiji restoration from a rare female point of view. The author of the original manuscripts is Contessa Mathilde (1838-1911), the French spouse of the first Italian Minister Plenipotentiary to Japan, Conte Vittorio Sallier de La Tour (1827-1894). Indeed, very little is known about the position of Italy in Japan during these crucial years, but Mathilde's collection of private sources, such as letters, notes and travel journals casts a new light on different aspects of Italo-Japanese relations: diplomacy, commerce, religion and politics, while describing, with an uncommon enthusiasm and emotion, Japan and its people before they started to embrace modernity.The first manuscript is a set of letters about the trip from Italy to Japan, introducing Mathilde, Vittorio and other members of the small Italian community of Yokohama. The second is an unpolished draTable of ContentsVolume 1: Transcriptions of Mathilde’s Manuscripts in French & SketchbookImages and PhotographsImages of the ManuscriptsPreface & General Introduction (in French) Acknowledgements (in French) Editorial Notes (in French) Part I: Le cahier de croquis de Mathilde / Mathilde’s Sketchbook (1869) Part II: Transcriptions of Mathilde’s Notes, Letters and Travel JournalsChapitre 1: Le voyage jusqu’au Japon - Égypte et Asie (avril-juin 1867) Chapitre 2: Notes à propos de Yokohama et Edo (1867) Chapitre 3: Cinq lettres envoyées du Japon et de la Chine (1867-70) Chapitre 4: Une expedition dans l’intérieur du Japon (8-28 juin 1869) Chapitre 5: Le voyage dans la mer intérieure du Japon et en Chine (1869-70) Volume 2: English Translations of Mathilde’s WritingsPreface & General Introduction (in English) Acknowledgements (in English) Editorial Notes (in English) Part III: Translations of Mathilde’s Notes, Letters and Travel JournalsChapter 1: The Journey to Japan - Egypt and Asia (April-June 1867)Chapter 2: Notes about Yokohama and Edo (1867) Chapter 3: Five Letters sent from Japan and China (1867-70) Chapter 4: An Expedition into the Interior of Japan (June 8th-28th, 1869) Chapter 5: A Journey in the Inland Sea of Japan and China (1869-70)ReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisOn 3 August 1914, the eve of the declaration of war, The Times wrote: `The great catastrophe has come upon Europe'. And so it had. Using records and letters from the Museum's archives, Karolyn Shindler chronicles both the impact of the war on museum life and the surprising and significant role its employees played in the war effort.Trade Review'Can the Natural History Museum provide 1915 propaganda chief John Buchan with an image of a kraken, to help annoy the Kaiser’s sailors? What insects are spoiling army biscuits on the Western Front? Wither leeches to heal the wounds at Ypres? Karolyn Shindler’s 'A Museum at War', a quirky wartime diary, as from the boffins of Cromwell Road, is a treasure house of oddities.' New Statesman 'Brilliant... a fascinating insight into the role of the Museum in the Great War, ranging from the campaign against trench foot to the development of camouflage - a true museum piece of a book!' Martin Bell

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Book SynopsisWritten from Wilde''s prison cell at Reading Gaol to his friend and lover Lord Alfred Douglas, De Profundis explodes the conventions of the traditional love letter and offers a scathing indictment of Douglas''s behavior, a mournful elegy for Wilde''s own lost greatness, and an impassioned plea for reconciliation. At once a bracingly honest account of ruinous attachment and a profound meditation on human suffering, De Profundis is a classic of gay literature. Richard Ellmann calls De Profundis 'a love letter...One of the greatest, and the longest, ever written.'This Modern Library Paperback Classics edition contains newly commissioned notes.

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Book SynopsisOffers a selection of personal papers. This title includes rhymes, an exchange with Queen Elizabeth of Belgium about fine music, and expressions of his devotion to Zionism.Trade Review"[Einstein] is revealed not only as a humane philosopher but as a natural aphorist, often with the graces of humor and humility."--Wall Street Journal "[This book] presents itself in such a modest and loving tone that it is fitting for the memory of the man it lets us hear. It is a fresh and delicious little anthology of citations from the body of Einstein's letters, journal entries and other written comment... These varied, penetrating, warm and open remarks to queens and schoolchildren, friends and antagonists, philosophers and sophomores have been sensitively chosen by two old friends of Einstein's and well translated. The German originals are included."--Scientific American "A thoroughly delightful book."--Choice "[This book] compiled by two of his closest colleagues in later life, Helen Dukas and Banesh Hoffmann, aims to show what kind of a person Einstein was. By a series of quotations from letters, jottings and unpublished documents, for example, Dukas and Hoffmann demonstrate as clearly as anybody could expect that Einstein was a courteous, kindly, witty, fearless and lonely man... It is a bedside book."--Washington PostTable of ContentsForeword to the 2013 Paperback Edition v Publisher's Preface xiv Glimpses From His Archives 3 German Originals 117 Einstein: a Brief Chronology 165 Acknowledgments 167

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Book SynopsisThese letters chart the friendship between Boswell and the man he called his most intimate friend, William Johnson Temple.

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Book SynopsisThe first ever edition of Hogg's letters to be published, featuring Hogg's correspondence with figures such as Sir Walter Scott, Lord Byron and Sir Robert Peel.Trade ReviewThe introductory and contextual materials are exemplary, the explanatory notes are astoundingly detailed, and the letters themselves blaze with Hogg's wit, iconoclasm, and ambition! Highly recommended. It is difficult to do justice to the richness of this long volume! What is astonishing is that a complete edition of this corresondence has not been available before. That one should even begin to assess Hogg's letters in the company of the great Romantic epistolists is an indication of the importance of Gillian Hughes's first volume. There is much still to look forward to : the second volume is shortly to appear! All Romanticists are indebted to be splendid Stirling-South Carolina Collected Edition. In view of Hogg's central role in the writers' workshop this edition of his letters has considerable importance, not only for students of Hogg but for historians of Scottish culture! Gillian Hughes rises to the challenge magnificently!Hughes's biographical and contextual commentary, drawing profitably on the indispensable Murray archive, is unfailingly helpful. Lucid, well-informed and sound of inference, it supplies, without wordiness, exactly the background most readers will need to appreciate the letters. -- Alistair Fowler Scotland has produced many great letter writers, Burns, Hume, Boswell, Byron, Scott, Stevenson and MacDiarmid. With the first volume of this collection, Hogg joins them and he has been admirably edited. Gillian Hughes gives us an excellent introduction, with clear, brief and useful notes after each letter and short biographies of the major correspondents at the end. These correspondents include Walter Scott, Lord Byron and Robert Southey among writers and the publishers WiIliam Blackwood, Archibald Constable and John Murray. They provide an insight into the atmosphere of the literary world of the time. -- Paul Henderson Scott This first volume of the Letters takes its place alongside the larger and hugely impressive Stirling/South Carolina edition of the collected works of Hogg, published (like the Edinburgh edition of the Waverley Novels) by Edinburgh University Press in a handsome and long-lasting form! The Letters in this first volume are a sampler that makes the subsequent ones all the more keenly anticipated: but the editorial decisions here have wisely made this volume complete and readable in itself, with extensive notes to each letter - printed after the letter and not grouped unhandily at the rear - a concise note on the text, good biographical summaries, and splendidly managed scholarship throughout! Drunk or sober (and in one letter he confesses he was "half-seas over" last night), serious or comic, he emerges as a sharp-witted man of business who was also an extraordinary writer. And some of his best work lies ahead in future volumes. -- Ian Campbell The introductory and contextual materials are exemplary, the explanatory notes are astoundingly detailed, and the letters themselves blaze with Hogg's wit, iconoclasm, and ambition! Highly recommended. It is difficult to do justice to the richness of this long volume! What is astonishing is that a complete edition of this corresondence has not been available before. That one should even begin to assess Hogg's letters in the company of the great Romantic epistolists is an indication of the importance of Gillian Hughes's first volume. There is much still to look forward to : the second volume is shortly to appear! All Romanticists are indebted to be splendid Stirling-South Carolina Collected Edition. In view of Hogg's central role in the writers' workshop this edition of his letters has considerable importance, not only for students of Hogg but for historians of Scottish culture! Gillian Hughes rises to the challenge magnificently!Hughes's biographical and contextual commentary, drawing profitably on the indispensable Murray archive, is unfailingly helpful. Lucid, well-informed and sound of inference, it supplies, without wordiness, exactly the background most readers will need to appreciate the letters. Scotland has produced many great letter writers, Burns, Hume, Boswell, Byron, Scott, Stevenson and MacDiarmid. With the first volume of this collection, Hogg joins them and he has been admirably edited. Gillian Hughes gives us an excellent introduction, with clear, brief and useful notes after each letter and short biographies of the major correspondents at the end. These correspondents include Walter Scott, Lord Byron and Robert Southey among writers and the publishers WiIliam Blackwood, Archibald Constable and John Murray. They provide an insight into the atmosphere of the literary world of the time. This first volume of the Letters takes its place alongside the larger and hugely impressive Stirling/South Carolina edition of the collected works of Hogg, published (like the Edinburgh edition of the Waverley Novels) by Edinburgh University Press in a handsome and long-lasting form! The Letters in this first volume are a sampler that makes the subsequent ones all the more keenly anticipated: but the editorial decisions here have wisely made this volume complete and readable in itself, with extensive notes to each letter - printed after the letter and not grouped unhandily at the rear - a concise note on the text, good biographical summaries, and splendidly managed scholarship throughout! Drunk or sober (and in one letter he confesses he was "half-seas over" last night), serious or comic, he emerges as a sharp-witted man of business who was also an extraordinary writer. And some of his best work lies ahead in future volumes.

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Book SynopsisThe letters in the second volume of Gillian Hughes's pioneering edition vividly reflect Hogg's varied social experience and shed new light on his own writings and those of his contemporaries.Trade ReviewA truly monumental project, the Stirling/South Carolina Research Edition of the Collected Works of James Hogg is a major Scottish publishing event that is worth shouting about. "A truly monumental project, the Stirling/South Carolina Research Edition of the Collected Works of James Hogg is a major Scottish publishing event that is worth shouting about." Textualities (Michael Lister, 2006) http://textualities.net/writers/non-fiction-reviews/listerm20.php The Collected Letters of James Hogg, 1820--1831, edited by Gillian Hughes, is an esssential volume for everyone interested in Hogg and Hogg's Edinburgh. It is meticulous, detailed and exemplary in its breadth of scholarship. -- Deirdre A. Shepherd, University of Edinburgh BARS Bulletin and Review A truly monumental project, the Stirling/South Carolina Research Edition of the Collected Works of James Hogg is a major Scottish publishing event that is worth shouting about. "A truly monumental project, the Stirling/South Carolina Research Edition of the Collected Works of James Hogg is a major Scottish publishing event that is worth shouting about." Textualities (Michael Lister, 2006) http://textualities.net/writers/non-fiction-reviews/listerm20.php The Collected Letters of James Hogg, 1820--1831, edited by Gillian Hughes, is an esssential volume for everyone interested in Hogg and Hogg's Edinburgh. It is meticulous, detailed and exemplary in its breadth of scholarship.

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Book SynopsisThe third and final volume of the first collected edition of Hogg's letters reveals his versatility in old age. It contains an index to all three volumes of Hogg's letters.Trade ReviewEditing the Letters gives as thorough a knowledge of a writer like Hogg as could be hoped for: and Hughes and her colleagues display scrupulous scholarship in an exemplary way, for the reader to consult without losing the thread. The Scotsman The letters that comprise this three-volume set provide a wealth of fresh material for students of Hogg and Scottish literature specifically, and for researchers of early nineteenth-century literature, culture, and history more generally... ...the third volume of his correspondence offers an especially thorough and 'thick' account of his literary activity. -- Holly Faith Nelson Scottish Literary Review So wonderful a treat that one wishes it weren't the final volume in the series. SEL - Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 Editing the Letters gives as thorough a knowledge of a writer like Hogg as could be hoped for: and Hughes and her colleagues display scrupulous scholarship in an exemplary way, for the reader to consult without losing the thread. The letters that comprise this three-volume set provide a wealth of fresh material for students of Hogg and Scottish literature specifically, and for researchers of early nineteenth-century literature, culture, and history more generally... ...the third volume of his correspondence offers an especially thorough and 'thick' account of his literary activity. So wonderful a treat that one wishes it weren't the final volume in the series.

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Book SynopsisCarol Harris and Mike Brown collaborate on a revised and updated edition of Blitz Diary

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Book SynopsisFirst-hand accounts of what D-Day was really like for those who took part in Operation Overlord

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Book SynopsisTHE DIARIES OF A MILITARY WIFE DURING THE SECOND WORLD WARIn 1935, Evelyn Shillington started a diary, little knowing the years of turmoil it would cover, and how insightful her experiences as an army wife would be to the following generations.Eve joined her beloved husband, Captain Rex Shillington, on his postings, giving her a unique view into army life. Through the abdication crisis, to the turbulent years of the WWII and ending in war-ravaged Italy, Eve documented it all with an inimitable spirit and brave humour.The diaries lay forgotten in an attic for years until an enterprising antiques dealer discovered them by chance. Published seventy years after Eve wrote in her diary for the last time, they offer a fascinating first-hand account into life on the home front.Readers love EVE''S WAR:''Enlightening and well written''''What a brilliant read''''Such an interesting account and in Trade ReviewFrom darning socks to being locked in the loo as the King's coffin went past, Eve's War is an entertaining personal take on an extraordinary period of history. Expertly edited by Barbara Fox, it is also a fantastic example of what can happen when you discover a family gem and delve deeper into your past * Family Tree Magazine *

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Book SynopsisThis fascinating collection of extracts contains diarists famous and ordinary, young and old, serious and cynical, but with Brighton always setting the scene. Many legendary writers - including Walter Scott, Arnold Bennett and Virginia Woolf (who described Brighton as a love corner for slugs') inhabit these pages, often appearing in their most unguarded guises. Here also are less well-known characters, such William Tayler (a footman), Gideon Mantell (a surgeon and dinosaur bone collector), and Xue Fucheng (an early Chinese diplomat). There are also several diarists whose writing has never appeared in print before - Olive Stammer, for example, who kept a diary during the Second World War; and Ross Reeves, a young gay musician whose diary extracts are from 2005-2006. By turn insightful, hilarious and profound, Brighton in Diaries will delight residents and visitors alike.

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