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Book SynopsisA voracious pack-rat, Mark Twain hoarded his readers' letters as did few of his contemporaries. This title collects 200 of these letters written by a diverse cross-section of correspondents from around the world - children, farmers, schoolteachers, businessmen, preachers, con artists, and even a former president.Trade Review"Well-selected, thoroughly researched and thoughtfully annotated-a surprising, welcome addition to the apparently endless Twain shelf." Kirkus Reviews "It is a special delight to read Twain's interactions with the readers who made him 19th-century America's most popular writer." -- Alexander Nazaryan New York Daily News "Kent Rasmussen has done it again: he has come up with a book that will give every Twainiac and lots of others with only a casual interest in Mark Twain much enjoyment and a non-trivial amount of insight into one of the most remarkable writers the world has ever known." -- Shelley Fisher Fishkin Mark Twain Forum "A magnificent, remarkably researched book." -- Maria Popova Maria Popova, Brain Pickings "The content is diverse and intriguing... Verdict: Rasmussen is clearly an expert curator and researcher. Fans of Twain and most libraries will want to secure a copy." -- Stacy Russo Library Journal "A devoted Samuel Clemons/Mark Twain fan will want to pick up this book and will appreciate Rasmussen's research." -- Chris Stuckenschneider Missourian "This series of letters makes delightful reading." -- Aron Row San Francisco Book Review and Sacramento Book Review "Over the past two decades Kent Rasmussen has consistently produced some of the most useful, practically minded, and accessible scholarship in Mark Twain studies. With Dear Mark Twain: Letters from His Readers, Rasmussen comes through again... Rasmussen enlarges what we know of Mark Twain from his correspondence as it provides the most substantive understanding yet of who were buying his books and reading him in newspapers and magazines at the turn of the century. As such, this collection will be of interest to Mark twain specialists, students of American literary and cultural studies, and general readers alike." -- Joseph Csicsila Mark Twain AnnualTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Foreword by Ron Powers Introduction Note on Texts Letters 1861--1870 1871--1880 1881--1890 1891--1900 1901--1910 Note on Sources Acknowledgments Index

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Book SynopsisWhen the anthropologist returns to Kenya to begin fieldwork for a new research project, he meets a young man from the Taita Hills who is as interested in the United States as Smith is in Taita. This book tells the story of sorcery, redemption, and transnational friendship in the globalized twenty-first century.Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments ix 1 Emails from the Field: An Introduction 2 English Makes You See Far 3 God Helps Those That Help Themselves 4 Good Ants, Bad Milk, and Ugly Deeds 5 The Power of Prayer 6 Works and Days 7 A Confrontation 8 Reflections Appendix: Members of Ngeti's Family Notes Bibliography

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Book SynopsisWhen the anthropologist returns to Kenya to begin fieldwork for a new research project, he meets a young man from the Taita Hills who is as interested in the United States as Smith is in Taita. This book tells the story of sorcery, redemption, and transnational friendship in the globalized twenty-first century.Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments ix 1 Emails from the Field: An Introduction 2 English Makes You See Far 3 God Helps Those That Help Themselves 4 Good Ants, Bad Milk, and Ugly Deeds 5 The Power of Prayer 6 Works and Days 7 A Confrontation 8 Reflections Appendix: Members of Ngeti's Family Notes Bibliography

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Bjornlie makes the material as readable as it’s ever going to be. . . . We need reliable, well-annotated translations, and products of this quality should be recognised as the original contributions they are. A formidable and committed translator, Cassiodorus would surely agree." * London Review of Books *Table of ContentsMaps Introduction Cassiodorus, the Variae, and Their World The Variae as a Letter Collection A Note on the Present Translation Chronology of Key Events Indictional Years Relative to Cassiodorus's Tenure in Public Offices Section I. Sixth-Century Italy in a Wider World: Diplomatic Letters from the Ostrogothic Court to the Eastern Imperial and Western "Barbarian" Courts Section II. The Senate in Public Life and Public Office: Letters to the Senate, Letters to Individual Senators, and Letters Announcing the Appointment of Senators to Office Section III. Civil Bureaucracy and Administration in Italy: Letters Describing Activities of the Court Bureaucracy and Letters of Appointment to Bureaucratic Posts Section IV. Taxes and Finances: Letters Describing Fiscal Organization and the Collection and Distribution of State Resources Section V. Administration of the Provinces: Letters Concerned with Ostrogothic Affairs in Regions outside Italy Section VI. Goths and the Military: Letters concerning Gothic Settlement and the Organization of the Military Section VII. Urban Life: Letters Describing Attention to the Urban Environment Section VIII. Rural Life: Letters concerning People in the Countryside and Their Obligations to the State Section IX. Religion: Letters to Bishops and Letters Touching upon the Court's Spiritual Sentiments and Involvement in Religious Matters Section X. Family and Gender: Letters concerning Households and Relations between Family Members and Letters to Women Section XI. Law, Order, and Conflict: Letters Describing the Court's Approach to Criminal Charges against Individuals Section XII. Intellectual Culture: Letters Pertaining to Aspects of Late-Antique Intellectual Culture Section XIII. Nature: Letters That Provide Literary Perspectives on the Natural World Glossary Concordance of Letters Cited in This Volume Selected Bibliography of Related Reading Index of Individuals Index of Concepts, Peoples, and Terms Index of Places

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Book SynopsisThis third and final volume of the correspondence between the founder of psychoanalysis and one of his most colorful disciples brings to a close Sándor Ferenczi's life and the story of one of the most important friendships in the history of psychoanalysis.Trade ReviewThe third and final volume of correspondence between the founder of psychoanalysis and one of his most colorful disciples brings to a close Sandor Ferenczi's life and the story of one of the most important friendships in the history of psychology. * Translation Review *Table of ContentsTranslator's Note Note on Transcription of the Original Correspondence Abbreviations of Works Cited Introduction by Judith Dupont Correspondence Works by Freud and Ferenczi Cited in the Text Index

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Book SynopsisWith the summer of 1784, most of the family reunited to spend nearly a year together in Europe. These volumes document John Adams's diplomatic triumphs, his wife and daughter's participation in the cosmopolitan scenes of Paris and London, and his son John Quincy's travels in Europe and America.Trade ReviewSuperbly edited, beautifully printed and magnificently written, in large part by John and Abigail Adams themselves, this saga of private lives in times of great public peril is as moving and dramatic as anything that has been put between covers in recent years. -- Margaret L. Colt * Saturday Review *Here even the Revolution is in the background, subordinate to the immediate business of life. There are letters among John and his relatives; there are also many back and forth between Abigail and her cousins. But the heart of this collection—and heart is the only word for it—is the long interchange between John and Abigail. -- Perry Miller * Christian Science Monitor *Taken together, the four volumes now in print are as full a domestic correspondence as now exists for eighteenth-century America, and the wisdom of bringing them out as a separate series becomes apparent. The value of the correspondence lies accordingly in the opportunity it offers for probing the character of human relations, especially domestic relations during the period… [The editors] supply us with the information for understanding the tone as well as the content of the letters. And the index to the volumes is a work of art in itself. -- Edmund S. Morgan * American Historical Review *Abigail Adams, as these volumes suggest, was the nation’s ‘First Lady,’ not only of her husband’s ill-starred presidency, but of this epoch of American history… She was, in sum, one of the superb letter writers in our history; her smooth-flowing prose sparkles, revealing repeatedly the high spirits, the wit, the high intelligence of this remarkable woman. -- Jacob F. Cooke * Pennsylvania History *It is of course a familiar tribute to this enterprise to say that it disinters John Adams the man and gives him a place in history at least equal to that of any other Founding Father. In fact by publishing the family letters as a distinct series the editors enhance still more the vigorous personalities, human reactions, and often vehement opinions of their subjects. -- Esmond Wright * William and Mary Quarterly *Table of ContentsDescriptive List of Illustrations Family Correspondence, December 1784-December 1785 Appendix: List of Omitted Documents Chronology Index

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Book SynopsisBorn into the first family of the British stage, Fanny Kemble was one of the most famous woman writers of the English-speaking world, a best-selling author on both sides of the Atlantic. Her autobiographical writings are compelling evidence of Kemble's wit and talent, and they also offer a dazzling overview of her transatlantic world.Trade ReviewThe fascination of a modern reader, I think, is partially rooted in the way Kemble braids a modernist sensibility (freedom, women's rights) with conventional prejudices (class, ethnicity). Like Henry James, I find Kemble's journals absorbing, and also like him, I presume, I find her beguiling. -- James L. Roark, Emory UniversityI enthusiastically recommend Fanny Kemble's Journals. Fanny Kemble has always been one of those mysterious fugitive characters about whom we would like to know more. With this new edition by Kemble's modern biographer, these writings will take their place in college classrooms and on the shelves of readers interested in the theater, the South, the Civil War, and women's studies. To shrink eleven volumes to one manageable one and to include the critical outlines of Kemble's life as well as her observations on aspects of American life such as politics and slavery is quite a triumph. Kemble writings afford readers a fascinating retelling of the outlines of an unusual life. It is not exaggerating to say that the Clinton selections created a new autobiography that in the past was obscured by the sheer mass of Kemble's memoirs. She is a terrific writer. Clinton has placed her emphasis on areas such as race, class, and women's issues, including the story of the marriage. Clinton's introduction locates the Journals within the context of Kemble's life, and as every editor must do, she makes a strong case for their relevance and historical significance. -- Jean H. Baker, author of Mary Todd Lincoln[From] six books of memoirs, Clinton has extracted an anthology...of consistent interest. Kemble is forthright throughout, and never boring...she writes candidly about acting, social and economic contracts between England and America, slavery, politics, religion, the status of women, her reading and herself. -- Stanley Weintraub * Wall Street Journal *A work of withering detail and explosive passion. -- Jonathan Yardley * Washington Post Book World *Parting the curtains obscuring a nineteenth-century celebrity, historian Clinton offers...journal excerpts by a woman who was an actress, author, and abolitionst...Composed over her 80-plus years, Kemble's journals convey a variety of nineteenth-century experiences, from the discomforts of travel to the wonders of Rome...Clinton has admirably restored to interest a multifaceted figure pertinent to Civil War and women's studies. -- Gilbert Taylor * Booklist *In Fanny Kemble's Journals, Clinton has edited down the journals and letters from a voluminous collection into a compendium of excerpts that gives the reader Kemble in her own voice. -- Stephanie Harvin * Post and Courier *Fanny Kemble has finally found a historian worthy of her remarkable career. -- Eric Foner * author of Reconstruction and the Story of American Freedom *A remarkable story...supplying color and atmosphere and Kemble's distinctive voice...Her journal, begun when she was 18 and kept regularly into her 70's, records her sharp observations of roads and accommodations and social behavior in the young American democracy [and her] blunt indictment of racial hypocrisy and sexual exploitation...The voice that 'reanimated the old drawing rooms, relighted the old lamps, retuned the old pianos,' is captured again. -- David Walton * New York Times Book Review *Kemble's writing rings with passion, liveliness and wit. It is almost shocking in its clarity, precision and logic, its audacity and relevance. I marked dozens of passages in Fanny Kemble's Journals to read to friends. -- Julie Brickman * San Diego Union-Tribune *Kemble's journal entries on slavery are both poignant and horrifying. She writes passionately against the use of slave women for sex by plantation owners, as well as the demands of backbreaking physical labor they performed. -- Robin Dougherty * Boston Globe *One of the most moving and edifying personal accounts I have ever read of how oppression of slaves--and, incidentally, of women, both black and white--resulted in a war that tore apart not just one family, but a whole nation. -- Ann Morrissett Davidon * Philadelphia Inquirer *Clinton's edition of Fanny Kemble's Journals offers fascinating selections from her heart-rending account of slavery and from earlier and later journals as well. Whether as a young girl weighing the pros and cons of marriage or as an older woman considering the question of women's suffrage, Kemble's keen mind and forthright style of expression are a constant delight. -- Merle Rubin * Los Angeles Times *Kemble's life wasn't entirely devoted to the rights of women and the wrongs of slavery: she acted and wrote, had triumphs, pleasures, and friends, and she often feels like our contemporary. Clinton doesn't insist that her subject was flawless, but she finds her irresistible. * New Yorker *Kemble's biographer, historian Catherine Clinton has edited a slender volume, selecting the juiciest, most revealing and most incisive sections of Kemble's oeuvre...Splendidly edited and handsomely designed, this collection clears room for readers to hear the unforgettable voice of Kemble herself, with little interference. * Publishers Weekly *In Fanny Kemble's Journals, Clinton has judiciously selected excerpts from Kemble's six published journals...Kemble casts her keen eye on the many foibles and failings of those around her. Her journals blaze with the fire of her passionate desire for reform in social institutions and justice in inequitable relationships. -- Henry L. Carrigan, Jr. * Columbia State *Despite its welcome place in my library, when I finished [Fanny Kemble's Civil Wars], I still felt that something was missing. An element of frivolity, a touch of wit, a hint of acerbity--of course! I missed...Fanny Kemble's own voice. The antidote: Fanny Kemble's Journals...So when I want Kemble's exact words about a topic in the biography, I need only reach for this compact compilation...It's been well more than a century since Kemble was widely toasted on either side of the Atlantic; perhaps her moment has arrived again. -- Annie Ludlum * Seattle Times *Clinton offers a second book, entitled Fanny Kemble's Journals, presenting a chronological narrative of Kemble's life in her own words… Fanny Kemble's Journals is a useful introduction to the story of Kemble's life in the United States, especially during the period 1832 to 1865. -- John Anthony Scott * Civil War Book Review *

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Book SynopsisPerhaps the greatest scholar of Jewish mysticism in the twentieth century, Scholem (18971982) once said of himself, I have no biography, only a bibliography. Yet, in thousands of letters written over his lifetime, his biography does unfold, inscribing a life that epitomized the intellectual ferment and political drama of an era.Trade ReviewWhat can this lucky bookworm say to readers who are not especially curious about the kabbalah or about the history of universities in Israel? A great deal, as this selection of letters to and from Scholem makes clear. Some of its pleasures are simple ones: the spell-binding story of the Scholem clan… But this narrative also asks difficult questions: one is whether cleaving to a particular people and its tradition constitutes a self-imposed exile from a realm of more-universal concerns… [Skinner’s] translations, thankfully, let the correspondents speak in voices that sound like their own. * The Economist *A lively…collection, which follows Scholem from his fevered adolescence to the sovereign authority of his final years. The editor’s illuminating biographical summaries set out useful links from decade to decade, but it is Scholem’s uncompromising voice that gives this volume its unified force and striking crescendos. In their unstinting energy, the letters show a man exactly where he wanted to be, and conscious of exactly why. -- Cynthia Ozick * New Yorker *Gershom Scholem: A Life in Letters offers a fascinating sample of the 16,000 letters he exchanged with members of his family… His correspondences with brilliant intellectuals of his time make for fascinating reading and provide a close look at the thoughts, beliefs and passions of a man discovering Judaism in a time and place when it seemed to be disappearing… Anthony David Skinner had chosen the letters wisely and offers excellent overviews of the periods in which they were written. -- Sylvia Rothchild * Jewish Advocate *Over seven decades, Scholem sent and received 16,000 letters. The Hebrew University’s Anthony David Skinner has lovingly translated and edited a selection of these… The replies—from such luminaries as Walter Benjamin, Martin Buber, Theodor Adorno and Hannah Arendt—create an engrossing dialogue. Skinner’s artful annotations render Scholem’s most esoteric notions accessible to the lay reader. And he shows how the adolescent maverick evolved from a ‘Jewish Zarathustra to Master Magician Emeritus of the post-war years’… It will whet readers’ appetites to read Scholem’s own books. In an age of emails and faxes, Scholem is truly a man of letters—in both senses of the term. -- Lawrence Joffe * Jewish Chronicle *Anthony David Skinner has done a useful and meticulous job. This is the most readable history of German destruction and Israeli construction I know. And it describes Jewish habits of thought leading to this day and trailing back into the darkness over thousands of hidden years. -- Atar Hadari * Jewish Quarterly *Scholem was a giant in the scholarly study of Jewish mysticism, responsible for bringing Kabbalah in particular to the attention of academia. However, the letters Skinner presents here reveal more of Scholem as a person than as a scholar. Scholem saw the two as intimately connected and would likely argue that these documents do aid in understanding his work. The decision to focus on the personal has the benefit of unearthing several firsthand accounts of critical events in 20th-century Jewish and European history. -- Stephen Joseph * Library Journal *[Anthony David Skinner] has ably translated and edited a wide-ranging selection of letters from the life of this master scholar of Jewish mysticism. Most of the letters…appear here in English for the first time. [Skinner’s] selection illuminates a question that has always haunted readers of Scholem: How did the personality of this overly dignified and self-confident academic relate to the unbridled otherworldliness in the texts he analyzed with such seeming detachment? * Publishers Weekly *A biography of Gershom Scholem lies in these well-selected and edited letters. Reading biographically between the letters’ lines, in the manner of Gershom Scholem, Master Scholar, you can learn how he found his own story between the lines of the Kabbalah’s texts he almost single-handedly restored to life; and how he wrote his autobiography out so intensely, with such vast erudition and brilliance, in all his commentaries on the Kaballah that it became, over his lifetime, a biography of the whole endlessly resilient, culturally prolific Jewish people, a 20th century national epic. -- Elisabeth Young-Bruehl, author of Hannah Arendt: For Love of the WorldTable of ContentsIntroduction I. A Jewish Zarathustra, 1914-1918 II. Unlocking the Gates, 1919-1932 III. Redemption through Sin, 1933-1947 IV. Master Magician Emeritus, 1948-1982 Notes Selected Bibliography Chronology Index

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Book SynopsisThe letters of Theodore Roosevelt constitute a major contribution to the field of American history and literature. At the same time, they present an autobiography of matchless candor and vitality. They are at once a mine of information for the historian, a case study in astute and vigorous political leadership, and a delight to the general reader. All the letters needed to reveal Roosevelt's thought and action in his public and private life are included, with appropriate editorial comment; and each is printed in its entirety.Trade Review[O]ne of those monumental contributions to the scholarship of history and biography that are also a pleasure to read. * Harper’s *Table of ContentsVOLUME ONE Introduction New York and Cambridge 1868--1881 New York and Medora 1881--1889 The Civil Service Commission 1889--1895 The Police Commission of the City of New York 1895--1897 The Department of the Navy 1897--1898 VOLUME TWO The Department of the Navy, continued 1898 The War with Spain 1898 A State Campaign August-December 1898 Parochial Affairs January--December 1899 The Kaleidoscope January--June 1900 A National Campaign June--December 1900 APPENDIX 1. Diary of Five Months In the New York Legislature 1469 2. Note on Nomination for the Governorship 3. Men of Affairs 4. Theodore Roosevelt: The Years of Decision 5. Chronologies 6. Collections Investigated INDEX

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Book SynopsisThe letters of Theodore Roosevelt constitute a major contribution to the field of American history and literature. At the same time, they present an autobiography of matchless candor and vitality. They are at once a mine of information for the historian, a case study in astute and vigorous political leadership, and a delight to the general reader. All the letters needed to reveal Roosevelt's thought and action in his public and private life are included, with appropriate editorial comment; and each is printed in its entirety.Trade Review[O]ne of those monumental contributions to the scholarship of history and biography that are also a pleasure to read. * Harper’s *Table of ContentsVOLUME TWO The Department of the Navy, continued 1898 The War with Spain 1898 A State Campaign August--December 1898 Parochial Affairs January--December 1899 The Kaleidoscope January--June 1900 A National Campaign June-December 1900 APPENDIX 1. Diary of Five Months in the New York Legislature 2. Note on Nomination for the Governorship 3. Men of Affairs 4. Theodore Roosevelt: The Years of Decision 5. Chronologies 6. Collections Investigated INDEX

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Book SynopsisThe Letters of Theodore Roosevelt constitute a major contribution to the field of American history and literature. At the same time, they present an autobiography of matchless candor and vitality. They are at once a mine of information for the historian, a case study in astute and vigorous political leadership, and a delight to the general reader. All the letters needed to reveal Roosevelt's thought and action in his public and private life are included, with appropriate editorial comment; and each is printed in its entirety. In the letters of 19011905, Roosevelt consolidates his position as President and party leader, settles the coal strike, deals with the politics of the Panama Canal, expands the Navy, extends the sphere of American interests abroad, achieves the Presidency in his own right, and works with the Russians and the Japanese to make the Peace in Portsmouth.Table of ContentsVOLUME THREE Introduction An Office That Should Be Abolished" January 1901--September 1901 Changing the Guard September 1901--August 1902 The Rights of Labor and the Control of Corporations August 1902--March 1903 Morality in Public Service March 1903--October 1903 Panama: From Acquisition to Commission October 1903--January 1904 VOLUME FOUR Panama: From Acquisition to Commission, continued January 1904--March 1904 Political Engineer March 1904--June 1904 A Square Deal for America June 1904--November 1904 The Legislative Process November 1904--March 1905 A Square Deal for Asia and Europe March 1905--August 1905 APPENDIX 1. Theodore Roosevelt and the Legislative Process 2. Chronology INDEX

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Book SynopsisIn their myriad letters to one another the Adamses interspersed observations about their own family life with commentary on the most important social and political events of their day, from the scandals in the British royal family to the deteriorating political situation in Massachusetts that eventually culminated in Shays’ Rebellion.Trade ReviewVolume 7 of the Adam Family Correspondence is a fine example of a published collection of letters. Like the other volumes in the series, this publication will prove immensely valuable to scholars interested in eighteenth-century society and culture generally or in the Adams family specifically. The time and effort put into the volume are apparent in its careful editing and annotation...The latest volume of the Adams Family Correspondence lives up to the Adams Papers project's tradition of high-quality work and fine editing, as the project continues to steadily provide needed sources to historians and biographers. -- Sarah Swedberg * New England Quarterly *

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Book SynopsisPaul and Marie Pireaud, a young peasant couple from southwest France, were newlyweds when World War I erupted. Drawing upon the hundreds of letters they wrote, Martha Hanna tells their moving story and reveals a powerful and personal perspective on war.Trade ReviewMartha Hanna achieves the remarkable feat of connecting the lives of two people to the events of a world war. This accomplishment is all the more impressive for her ability to never lose sight of either the small or big picture. This deftly written and elegantly crafted book reminds us of how war deeply affects everyone, from the front line to the home front. -- Michael S. Neiberg, author of Fighting the Great WarWe have any number of collections of letters from soldiers of the Great War, but none that comprises letters from both spouses. This allows Hanna to illuminate the relationship between the front and the interior in a unique way. Her work is an important contribution to our understanding of how the French fought the Great War in separate spheres, but as a people. Most of all, however, Hanna brings to life two extremely interesting individuals. She has empathy with her subjects, but never condescends toward them. I recommend this very fine book with great enthusiasm. -- Leonard V. Smith, author of Between Mutiny and Obedience[Paul and Marie Pireaud's] letters are a remarkable source for observing World War I from the vantage point of the French peasantry, for analyzing the impact of the conflict on rural France, and for resurrecting the human face of war. Drawing on hundreds of letters, Hanna offers a fascinating look at one peasant couple separated and in love, compelled to carry on their marriage by correspondence. (starred review) -- George Cohen * Booklist *A vivid picture of the Great War seen from below which illustrates the view, popular now for a generation or so, that it is not events but people who make history...Most of all, Hanna is struck by the way Marie and Paul reflect the modernizing impact of the war on the rural psyche...The practice of writing letters stimulated self-reflection and self-awareness and left both husband and wife better able to communicate with each other. The postwar transformation of rural France was made possible by this enforced wartime correspondence course in self-discovery. -- David Coward * London Review of Books *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. How Sad the Countryside Is 2. Here It Is Extermination on the Ground 3. Oh, How I Suffered, My Poor Paul 4. No One Is Happy in War 5. We Are Martyrs of the Century Conclusion Notes Index

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Book SynopsisRevolution on My Mind is a stunning revelation of the inner world of Stalin’s Russia, showing us the minds and hearts of Soviet citizens who recorded their lives in diaries during an extraordinary period of revolutionary fervor and state terror.Trade ReviewOne of the most important books ever written in the field of Soviet Studies, Revolution on My Mind is a brilliantly conceived, poignant work about the experience of trying to live as a self-conscious Soviet citizen. Beautifully written and analytically compelling, this is a book for anyone who has thought deeply or cared passionately, one way or the other, about Communism and its impact on individual lives. -- Eric Naiman, University of California at BerkeleyThis masterful book looks at the Russian Revolution from an entirely new perspective. It explores how individuals refashioned their personal selves to bring their lives into alignment with the revolution. Far from being oppressed by history, Soviet diarists embraced it; they became the engineers of their own souls. Hellbeck has provocatively rewritten the emotional history of twentieth-century Communism. -- Peter Fritzsche, author of Stranded in the Present: Modern Time and the Melancholy of HistoryHellbeck's work is pathbreaking in the challenges it poses to our past thinking about Soviet history. Using previously unknown diaries of the Stalin era, he explores the fascinating worlds of Soviet subjectivity. This book is hard to put down! -- Mark L. von Hagen, Columbia UniversityHistorian Hellbeck found a cache of diaries in newly opened Soviet archives that overturns easy assumptions about the inner lives of people subjected to totalitarian rule...Their eloquent, self-critical, and affecting diaries reveal how seriously they took the government's exhortations not merely to conform outwardly to communist precepts but also to fully internalize them. Each believed that self-improvement, sacrifice, reeducation, and endurance were intrinsic to the success of the revolution. Loneliness, fear, and an ever-widening divide between ideology and reality made life increasingly harrowing for these determined, sometimes ruthless citizens, and their trust and conviction make Stalin's terror all the more heinous. -- Donna Seaman * Booklist *Hellbeck draws on a cache of Stalin-era diaries found through friends in Russia to paint a dark portrait of how ordinary people bent their individual wills to what they believed was a greater good. -- A. Craig Copetas * Bloomberg News *How do tyrants succeed? Their monstrous ability to secure absolute power over a nation can't be based solely on fear. Ambition and some sort of twisted idealism or romanticism must also be involved. Historian Jochen Hellbeck found striking explanations for this mystery in an astonishing cache of Soviet diaries that radically challenge our notions about totalitarian rule...The humanity expressed in these diaries makes the crimes of Stalin and his followers all the more heinous...[Hellbeck's] thinking is cogent, his command of Russian history fluent, his deductions galvanizing, and his fascination with and empathy for the people he portrays compelling and thought-provoking. -- Donna Seaman * Speakeasy *[A] fascinating book...Hellbeck's analysis of his diarists is first-rate, and his enthusiasm for his subject is infectious...This book helps us to understand a particular Soviet mindset of the 1930s...It suggests an intriguing way of understanding the over-the-top enthusiasm that the Soviet regime inspired among some of its citizens in the 1930s. -- Sheila Fitzpatrick * The Nation *The principal service of Jochen Hellbeck's Revolution on My Mind is that it transports us back to that earlier, impassioned revolutionary Soviet Union, a time of epic hope and energy, when the transformation of man and history seemed imminent...Insightful and intelligent...He delivers much that is fresh and useful...This book takes the reader back to those nearly unimaginable times. -- Richard Lourie * Moscow Times *Hellbeck's attempt to situate the Bolshevik project of self-transformation within this wider cultural and historical perspective (a dimension too often lacking in Western studies of the Soviet era) is one of the outstanding virtues of his impressive book. Never overburdening his narrative with theorizing, his sensitive and sympathetic approach allows his subjects to speak for themselves, expressing sometimes a repulsive indifference to the fate of Stalin's victims, sometimes a tragic struggle to rationalize the destruction of friends or family accused of ludicrous crimes…His study adds an important dimension to the work done by other scholars to throw light on the psychological reasons behind the collusion of moral idealists in the extreme violence of the Stalin years...One can hope that Hellbeck will follow the present fine study with a sequel. -- Aileen Kelly * New York Review of Books *The study consists of texts and analysis of diaries written during Stalin's rule in the time of collectivization, purges, and labor camps. The diaries show, if taken at face value, a disturbing compulsion to conform; they show that the Cheka's coercive methods had worked on large numbers of Soviet citizens. -- A. Ezergailis * Choice *Jochen Hellbeck has opened up a new way into the private inner world of the Stalin years, a world to which former schools of Soviet history didn't pay much attention...There can't now be a cultural history of the 20th century that ignores the experience of forging the self under the conditions of Communist--and especially Stalinist--rule. -- Karl Schlögel * London Review of Books *Hellbeck's work is important because it elucidates the joyful, exuberant, often irrational and self-destroying desires to lose oneself in the Soviet project. -- Kate Brown * Times Literary Supplement *Hellbeck’s book makes an important contribution to methodological reflection concerning the historiographical use of autobiography as a source...Revolution on My Mind will figure, rapidly and incontestably, among the standard references in the historiography of the Russian world. -- Brigitte Studer * Journal of Modern History *Table of ContentsPreface Prologue: Forging the Revolutionary Self 1. Rearing Conscious Citizens 2. Bolshevik Views of the Diary 3. Laboratories of the Soul 4. Intelligentsia on Trial: Zinaida Denisevskaya 5. Secrets of a Class Enemy: Stepan Podlubny 6. The Diary of a New Man: Leonid Potemkin 7. Stalin's Inkwell: Alexander Afinogenov 8. The Urge to Struggle On Notes Note on Sources Acknowledgments Index

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Book SynopsisLouisa Catherine Adams was daughter-in-law and wife of presidents, assisted diplomat J. Q. Adams at three European capitals, and served as a D.C. hostess for three decades. Yet she is barely remembered today. A Traveled First Lady (with Foreword by Laura Bush) corrects this oversight, by sharing Adams’s remarkable story in her own words.Trade ReviewA fine new sampling of Louisa’s writings… Louisa Adams was highly intelligent, well educated, and well read. She was a talented writer, as her diary and letters—most notably the correspondence she maintained with her father-in-law, after the death of his wife Abigail—reveal. -- Susan Dunn * New York Review of Books *Allow[s] Louisa to emerge as a subject herself. In the process, she also becomes newly convincing as a source, especially in connection with her husband’s complicated, grinding ambition, a quality she discerned beneath his cloak of rectitude. -- Thomas Mallon * New Yorker *Highly readable… The book also features a delightful foreword by Laura Bush… ‘Narrative of a Journey from Russia to France’ is the most hair-raising section in the entire collection… It is a story of unimaginable discomfort, absent-minded servants, questionable characters threatening in desolate places, impudent officials, weary soldiers, and filthy lodgings. Above all, it is the tale of a fragile, rugged, determined woman pulling off an adventure as daunting as those of the ragged soldiers she passed. -- Janet Tassel * American Spectator *Here’s history at its best! Louisa Catherine Adams’s shrewd eyewitness accounts document pivotal moments in the country’s formative years. Often laugh-out-loud funny, the writings of this intelligent, insightful woman also provide fascinating context for the career of John Quincy and his contemporaries. -- Cokie Roberts, author of Founding Mothers and Ladies of LibertyThis graceful collection of the personal papers of Louisa Catherine Adams, the only first lady to have been foreign-born, is a treasure. Broad in scope but intimate in detail, Louisa’s account of her tour through the courts of Europe and the byways of accomplishment and loss that distinguished the Adams family shines and startles with wit and a woman’s heart wanting to freely ‘breathe its sorrows.’ Henry Adams would write he knew ‘nothing’ of his grandmother’s ‘interior life.’ Fortunate readers will know much more from her bracing words that bring early America to vivid life. -- Natalie Dykstra, author of Clover Adams: A Gilded and Heartbreaking Life

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Book SynopsisCritic, poet, editor, chronicler of the Lost Generation, elder statesman of the Republic of Letters, Malcolm Cowley (1898â1989) was an eloquent witness to American literary and political life. His letters, mostly unpublished, provide a self-portrait of Cowley and his time and make possible a full appreciation of his long, varied career.Trade ReviewMalcolm Cowley was one of the most important (and easily the most omnipresent) literary figures of the past century… Cowley’s was a long, eventful and controversial life, amply documented in his letters… Bak has done on the whole an astounding job of effectively boiling down Cowley’s voluminous correspondence… To delve into Cowley’s letters is to get a rare behind-the-scenes glimpse at how the literary life, with its glittering prizes, really operates… This volume is a permanent addition to American literary history the likes of which we may never see again. If the telephone made letter-writing a luxury, email and texting have rendered it as obsolete as the manual typewriter, and we as readers are undoubtedly the poorer for it. That is all the more reason to cherish this invaluable collection. -- Tom Moran * Chicago Tribune *Cowley was perhaps the greatest literary cross‐pollinator of the 20th century. It’s impossible to imagine the American canon without him… Cowley’s best letters—they are alternately frisky, warm, pushy and ruminative—are collected now in The Long Voyage… Many are to his childhood friend from Pittsburgh, the philosopher of language Kenneth Burke, and to his lifelong confidant Allen Tate. This volume also records his end of correspondences with Faulkner, Kerouac, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Dawn Powell, Lionel Trilling, Louise Bogan, Edmund Wilson and multiple others… Consistently busy on a multitude of fronts, Cowley wrote letters that are grainy with gossip and ringing observations, almost from the beginning. -- Dwight Garner * New York Times *Cowley’s letters carry the style he had in all of his writing, featuring a very American, cynical, go-getter voice and an uncanny facility with a sharp closing line… The Long Voyage is also a reminder of a time, not long ago, when literature had a more central place in the cultural conversation… Bak has done a masterful job with this collection… Cowley has never quite been forgotten, but the work he did was often as hidden as it was influential. This collection will remind readers of 20th-century American literature of the key role Cowley played in its development, and might perhaps spur them to read some of Cowley’s own works. -- Greg Barnhisel * Los Angeles Review of Books *[This is a] vast collection of letters, sensitively compiled and annotated by [Cowley’s] biographer, Hans Bak… At his best he wrote from an empathy that few contemporaries shared. -- Marc Robinson * Times Literary Supplement *Cowley earned, many times over, his status as the grand old man of American letters. Did anyone do more to establish the current canon of the major writers of the twentieth century? Did anyone do more than Cowley, as the indefatigable consulting editor for Viking, to identify new talent among the following generations?… Did anyone work harder behind the scenes of influential organizations (the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Yaddo, countless book prizes, and so on) to support writers in need and reward deserving achievement?… He ultimately belonged, like Fitzgerald and Hemingway and Faulkner, to what his friend Hart Crane called ‘the visionary company,’ and not as a fellow traveler but as a full member. -- Christopher Benfey * New Republic *[A] vast and rich omnium-gatherum of epistolary activity… Cowley [was] one of the most important and influential men of letters (or freelance literary intellectuals, if you prefer) of the twentieth century… [He had] an immensely influential critical and editorial career that spanned seven decades… [Cowley] is nowhere near as famous or well regarded as he deserves to be… Bak’s commentary and notes are helpful, to the point, jargon-free, and superbly well-informed, and the letters themselves have been selected and judiciously edited to form an almost biographical narrative. Because the book focuses on letters that illuminate Cowley’s involvement with both literature and politics, the private man barely makes an appearance, but that absence is more than made up for by his son Robert Cowley’s foreword, a moving act of filial piety and a shrewd assessment of the shape and significance of his father’s career. And why should anyone produce an 850-page volume of Malcolm Cowley’s letters, and why should you care that someone did? Because, simply put, the American literature of the twentieth century would look considerably poorer and less interesting without his activities as a critic, editor, and memoirist, and our broader understanding of American literary history much less clear… If you don’t reckon with Malcolm Cowley’s works and days, you can’t really understand how American literature ascended to its rightful place among the great literatures of the world, or how it was made. -- Gerald Howard * Bookforum *Now, at last, we can see the history of twentieth-century literature, which he helped to shape, through Cowley’s own eyes. -- Adam Kirsch * City Journal *Bak’s a fair-minded and microscopically well-informed guide to the material… Cowley’s correspondence also makes it possible to get a sense of him as a fairly stylish performer in his day, a sense that’s harder to get from the stuff he wrote for publication. -- Christopher Tayler * Harper’s *Boswell of the ‘lost generation,’ literary editor of The New Republic, and champion of authors from Fitzgerald and Faulkner—whose career he resuscitated—to Kerouac and Kesey, Malcolm Cowley lived a long life and wrote a ton of letters debating, critiquing and defending the state of American literature. (Kenneth Burke, Allen Tate, Conrad Aiken and Edmund Wilson were among his closest interlocutors.) The majority of the letters in this collection have never before been published… His collected letters amount to a heady portrait of American literary and intellectual life in the twentieth century. -- Rachel Arons * New Yorker blog *[Cowley] set to work almost singlehandedly reviving the stature of William Faulkner, whose name had faded and whose 17 novels and short story collections were out of print. The exact cause and effect can never be proved, but Cowley’s 1946 book The Portable Faulkner is seen as one factor leading to Faulkner’s 1949 Nobel Prize for literature… The Long Voyage gives us a much broader and clearer picture of Cowley as someone who, to use his own phrase, ‘worked at the writer’s trade’—and did so honorably. -- George Fetherling * Pittsburgh Post-Gazette *Hans Bak’s selection of Cowley’s letters will interest anyone with specialized knowledge of American literature during its 20th-century apogee… The Long Voyage [is] a fine memorial of those high days when book reviewers were not afraid of showing their intelligence and discrimination, and wrote pieces that changed the way the educated segment of nations thought. -- Richard Davenport-Hines * The Spectator *The Long Voyage is a must-own for any devotee of American literature. -- David Duhr * Texas Observer *Malcolm Cowley (1898–1989) may be one of the most important (and unheralded) literary figures of the twentieth century. His critical track record for fostering genius and capturing the sensibility of the Lost Generation now receives a spotlight, thanks to savvy editor Hans Bak. * Barnes & Noble Review *As a poet, editor, literary historian and memoirist, Cowley (1898–1989) had his finger on the pulse of American literature for most of the 20th century… In this collection, editor Bak gathers approximately 500 letters culled from Cowley’s papers in Chicago’s Newberry Library, most previously unpublished. Correspondents include Kenneth Burke (a childhood friend), Allen Tate, Conrad Aiken, Edmund Wilson, Hart Crane, Ernest Hemingway, Jack Kerouac, Tillie Olsen, and almost anyone who was anybody in American literature… In addition to his literary activities, the letters shed light on Cowley’s politics, including his ties to communist front organizations in the 1930s, his reaction to the Moscow Trials, and his fight to preserve his reputation during the McCarthy era… This title will appeal to students of modern American literature, particularly those familiar with Cowley’s oeuvre. -- William Gargan * Library Journal *A committed, contentious life at the center of American letters comes alive in this scintillating collection. The book follows Cowley (1898–1989) from his 1920s salad days as a poet and critic in New York and Paris, immersed in fierce literary squabbles over the emerging modernist aesthetic; through his 1930s reign as the New Republic’s literary editor, when he discovered Marxism and drew (not unfounded) accusations of pushing a Stalinist line that dogged him during and after World War II; to his postwar efforts to champion old masters and newcomers, from Fitzgerald and Faulkner to Kerouac and Kesey. Cowley’s letters fizz with gossip, bawdy jokes, lurid anecdotes, witty reflections… Ably contextualized by editor Bak’s extensive biographical insertions, these missives convey the intense passions aroused by the aesthetic and political upheavals of the 20th century through the pen of one of the era’s leading literary intellectuals. * Publishers Weekly *This is a grand reunion. They are all here—Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Faulkner, Hart Crane, Edmund Wilson, John Dos Passos, and all the rest—presided over by the indefatigable and conscientious intelligence of Malcolm Cowley, the great friend and critic and chronicler of American writers and their work. These wonderful letters amount to the diary of American literature in the twentieth century. -- Lance MorrowMalcolm Cowley—who was there, at the inner ring—is an eloquent voice in helping us to know how twentieth-century American literature got made. This selection from a lifetime of letters only confirms how indispensable he was and is. -- Paul Hendrickson, author of Hemingway’s Boat: Everything He Loved in Life, and Lost, 1934–1961

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Book SynopsisPensive, mercurial, and often funny, the private Robert Frost remains less appreciated than the public poet. The Letters of Robert Frost, the first major edition of the correspondence of this complex and subtle verbal artist, includes hundreds of unpublished letters whose literary interest is on a par with Dickinson, Lowell, and Beckett.Trade ReviewThis opening volume of a complete edition of Frost’s letters meanders from a schoolboy’s love notes (‘I have got read a composition after recess and I hate to offaly’) to the dashed valedictions of the poet at 45, fleeing a cushy job at Amherst. Generously annotated, it replaces the selected letters edited by Lawrance Thompson half a century ago… In almost every way, this new edition is a triumph of scholarly care… The notes are as thorough as most readers could wish… For all his private flaws, his tragedies large and small, American literature—and the language itself—owes a profound debt to that dark, demonic, beguiling figure, Robert Frost. -- William Logan * New York Times Book Review *It must be said that these early letters carry the burden of [Frost’s] poetry so finely as to be no embarrassment to the poetry. The book has been edited by Donald Sheehy, Mark Richardson and Robert Faggen with continuous tact and sensitivity to the likely demands of a literate reader; there are enough notes and just enough (they never strike one as intrusions pretending to be elucidations). A good index and a biographical glossary complete the authority of a book that has been printed with the care and elegance it deserves. Frost’s letters seem the inevitable expressions of a personality, so that, even when a mask is on, there is interest to be found in exactly what it reveals. -- David Bromwich * Times Literary Supplement *It can sometimes seem, from the surfeit of images of Frost in his later years, that he was born old, incapable of youth in the same way John Keats is incapable of age. The Letters of Robert Frost, Volume 1: 1886–1920, edited by Donald Sheehy, Mark Richardson, and Robert Faggen, part of a heroic effort by Harvard University Press to collect all Frost’s writings in a definitive edition, goes some way toward filling this imaginative deficit… These letters [show] Frost at home in metaphor, if nowhere else… His own oppositional modernism was as revolutionary as Eliot’s. -- Dan Chiasson * New Yorker *Long overdue, The Letters of Robert Frost, Volume 1: 1886–1920 is deservedly getting a lot of attention. Frost is not simply a lively correspondent, he is an artist of the epistolary form, defining himself and his poetic era in these pages. The trio of editors, Donald Sheehy, Mark Richardson, and Robert Faggen, have done a splendid job, bringing into print all of the known letters from this period, silently correcting obvious typos, offering helpful annotations in ample headnotes and footnotes… The truly original, splenetic, aphoristic, and revisionary mind of a major poet comes into view… No reader will come away from this volume without a quickened sense of the poet’s greatness in the face of his obvious failings as a human being. His unique, almost ferocious, intelligence shines on every page of these letters. -- Jay Parini * Chronicle of Higher Education *[A] superb first volume of the Letters (two more are on the way)… The letters have less to say about the events in the poet’s life than about the life of his writing, although at several points the unspoken pressure of the life that informs the writing makes itself felt. The whole volume reveals a lot about the way Frost’s imagination works—and his desperation to make it work… Frost’s letters are vital documents not simply because they throw more light on his work, but because they throw more darkness on it. -- Matthew Bevis * London Review of Books *The collected Letters reviewed here should serve as a thorough corrective to [biographer Lawrence] Thompson’s view of Frost as a ‘monster’ and a parallel tendency to dismiss him as a poet of seemingly easy favorites like ‘The Road Not Taken.’ The letters call for a renewed evaluation of Frost as a poet who drew skillfully, and with playful subtlety, on classic poetic themes and subjects to give them a modern relevance… [An] excellent and meticulously edited volume. -- Andrew Hamilton * New Criterion *Such a joy to read… This is the first time a complete version of [Frost’s letters]—running in chronological order—has been made available. Frost saw these noble exchanges almost like an art form: one where he could deconstruct his own work, and the work of others, with precision and intellectual rigor… Through them, we get a deep insight into Frost’s views on: the mechanics of poetry; politics; the art of conversation; and the importance of structure and syntax in language… These letters give us greater insight into Frost the poet, and Frost the man, and they are a fitting testament to his exceptional work ethic as a writer. Anyone interested in the laborious process an artist must undertake to perfect his craft will read this book with awe and fascination, and as a constant source of inspiration. -- J. P. O’Malley * NPR Books *The first volume [of letters] is already enough to prove, if proof were needed, that Frost was anything but the shit-kicking fireside verse-whittier of legend. When not actually practicing his art, he thought about it so long and hard that it was a wonder he had time for anything else. His detractors would like to think that he found plenty of time to suborn editors, sabotage rival poets and practice infinite cruelties on his wife and family, but even his detractors must have noticed that he got quite a lot of meticulously crafted poems written. These letters are proof that his working methods and principles were the product of a mental preoccupation that began very early. Right from the start he had an idea of what a poem should do… Whatever else they reveal about him—perhaps he stole cars—the next two volumes of letters are bound to go on showing that he was as thoughtful and hard-working as an artist can get: further evidence that the best of modernism is a way for the classical to keep going. -- Clive James * Prospect *To remove some of the confusion surrounding Frost himself is among the editors’ aims in this first of four planned volumes of his complete letters. It continues the commendable project by Harvard University Press of bringing into print all the primary material of one of America’s most important 20th-century poets… Judging by this first volume, which takes us up to Frost at age 46 (he was born in 1874), he comes across very well: sympathetic, funny, self-deprecating, and both loyal and caring towards family and friends. -- Simon West * The Australian *Writers, in particular, are revealed through traditional correspondence. Thanks to Harvard’s undertaking, Frost’s more complete, chronological letters help correct the poet’s legacy by allowing it weight and breadth. -- Valerie Duff * Boston Globe *The Frost who emerges from his letters can come across as vain, defensive, ingratiating, stubborn… But what redeems Frost is his acute awareness of his own deficiencies of character—along with his lively sense of humor. Like his poems, his letters can be playful and teasing. Others read like drafts of lectures, in which he tries out his ideas about poetry. They take us back to an era when letter-writing was the next best thing to a conversation beside the fireplace. Frost meant his letters to do what Horace said poetry should do—please and instruct their readers. Thanks to the labors of Donald Sheehy, Mark Richardson, and Robert Faggen, they can now please and instruct us as well, even though we don’t write letters anymore. -- Mark Walhout * Books & Culture *The Frost of the letters is deeply literary, a theorist of prosody, a scholar of Greek and Latin… Frost’s erudite, wide-referencing letters…revel in multi-level puns and literary riddles as much as anything in Joyce…That so many perfect poems arose from what his letters testify was an imperfect life isn’t duplicity; it’s grace. -- Michael Lista * National Post *The Letters of Robert Frost [is] a projected four-volume edition of all the poet’s known correspondence that promises to offer the most rounded, complete portrait to date… The complete correspondence, scholars say, will show Frost in full, revealing a complex man who juggled uncommon fame with an uncommonly difficult private life (including four children who died before him, one a suicide), a canny self-fashioner who may have cultivated the image of a birch-swinging rustic but was as much the modernist innovator as T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound… If there’s a true revelation in the first volume, the editors say, it’s the sheer intellectual firepower Frost brings even to a casual missive, the range of references that can wind playfully from George Bernard Shaw to Gothic architecture to Neolithic archaeology, all in a few hundred words. -- Jennifer Schuessler * New York Times *Robert Frost, it seems, didn’t just craft some of the best poetry in the English language, he wrote a lot of letters, too: 3,000 and counting. While many have appeared in prior collections, nothing matches the size and scope of this project. -- Mackenzie Carpenter * Pittsburgh Post-Gazette *The Letters of Robert Frost, Volume 1: 1886–1920 is a staggering effort by the three editors—Donald Sheehy, Mark Richardson and Robert Faggen—and Harvard University Press to present, for the first time, the entire collection of all of Frost’s preserved correspondence. What’s unique about this effort is that there’s no discernible bias made by the editors; instead, their expectation, as suggested in the preface, is that unlike prior biographies and incomplete collections of correspondence, ‘the availability of the correspondence in its entirety will present both an occasion and a means to come to know Robert Frost anew.’ [It’s] a collection so massive that casual readers may look at its fatty binding and flee in terror with memories of being forced to read Boswell’s Life of Johnson, Joyce’s Ulysses or Wallace’s Infinite Jest. But those people would be mistaken; while visibly daunting, The Letters of Robert Frost should be read by everyone. -- Shyam K. Sriram * PopMatters *Overall, the letters show Frost to be a mature artist, a good friend, and a caring husband and father… The introduction, chronology, index of correspondents, and helpful contextual notes make these letters both accessible and enjoyable for anyone interested in Frost. How could it be otherwise for a poet who always wrote for the many and the few? -- Micah Mattix * Weekly Standard *Frost shows himself to be playful, sly, caring and supremely serious about his art in his letters to poets Amy Lowell, Louis Untermeyer, Edward Arlington Robinson and Harriet Monroe; publishers Alfred Knopf and Henry Holt; former students; his daughter; and many friends… Judiciously annotated with a biographical glossary of correspondents and an indispensable chronology, this volume may well inspire a Frost renaissance. * Kirkus Reviews *Not the rustic sage, but the savvy, ambitious, cosmopolitan poet emerges from this first volume of Frost’s lively, shrewd letters… The editors’ exhaustive, well-organized notes and appendices, explicating every obscure figure and stray allusion, make the collection a must for scholars; but Frost’s witty, urbane style make the letters an engaging browse for ordinary readers, too. * Publishers Weekly *After decades in which Robert Frost’s letters were unavailable, we are given the first of several volumes, taking him up through 1920. Especially valuable are letters from 1913–14 in which Frost staked out his poetic aims and principles. The editorial job is painstakingly, indeed brilliantly, performed. -- William H. Pritchard, Amherst College

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Book SynopsisBorn in London in 1775 to a Maryland merchant and his English wife, Louisa recalls her childhood and education in England and France and her courtship with John Quincy. Her diaries reveal a reluctant but increasingly canny political wife. Her husband emerges in a fullness seldom seen—ambitious and exacting, yet passionate, generous, and gallant.

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Book SynopsisThe fiery debate over funding Jay Treaty sets political stage, and austic exchanges between Federalists and Democratic-Republicans row as rumors surface of George Washington's impending retirement. This title spans the period from July 1795 to the eve of John Adams' inauguration, with growing partisan divide to election playing a central role.

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewSynthesize[s] dozens of accounts to powerful and illuminating effect…A fascinating, insightful, and nuanced work that incorporates much fresh research. Particularly rewarding is the close attention Peri pays to language. -- Anna Reid * Times Literary Supplement *[A] fascinating and perceptive book. -- Antony Beevor * New York Review of Books *A remarkable record of 125 unpublished diaries written by the blokadniki who endured the 872-day siege of Leningrad from 1941–44… Much has been written about Leningrad’s heroic resistance. But the remarkable aspect of the Boston University professor’s book is that she tells a very different story: recounting the internal struggles of ordinary people desperately trying to survive and make sense of their fate. -- John Thornhill * Financial Times *Stand aside, Homer. I doubt whether even the author of the Iliad could have matched Alexis Peri’s account of the 872-day siege which Leningrad endured after Hitler’s army encircled the city in September 1941…[A] magnificent narrative. -- Jonathan Mirsky * The Spectator *The battle for Leningrad lasted 1,127 days; the city was under siege for 900 of them. Between 1.6 million and two million Soviet citizens died, 800,000 of them civilians—40 percent of the city’s prewar population. (As Peri points out, the overall death toll approximates the total number of members of the U.S. military who died in war between 1776 and 1975.) Leningrad residents of all types—from factory foremen to teachers, party workers to professional writers—kept diaries during the ordeal. Peri searches through 125 of them to capture how the nightmare deconstructed the writers’ prior realities and altered their sense of humanity. Her portrait is a sensitive, at times almost poetic examination of their emotions and disordered mental states. It both contrasts with and complements the equally accurate official Soviet portrait of a stalwart population standing firm in the face of evil and in defense of Soviet ideals. Peri makes plain that even though the diarists endured the total transformation of their fundamental sense of reality, their social relationships, and the nature of their social order, most of them did not become alienated from the values and basic outlook of the Soviet system. -- Robert Legvold * Foreign Affairs *A powerful book…In a groundbreaking history, Alexis Peri has sifted through scores of previously unpublished diaries that have lain largely forgotten for decades in Russian archives. As a result, we now have a far fuller picture of the siege. It may make disturbing reading, but these journals personalize the catastrophe far better than any conventional history. -- Guy Walters * Daily Mail *[An] important new book…Peri’s book is not a tale; it is arranged thematically rather than chronologically, and it does not reprint any diary in full. But oh, these voices from a frozen world of starvation and fear! They will haunt you. It is time they were heard. -- Laurie Hertzel * Star Tribune *In devastating intimacy, the diaries [written during the siege of Leningrad] disclose the private struggles of individuals to extract meaning from unimaginably dire circumstances, as well as the philosophical and psychological approaches they brought to bear on their suddenly unrecognizable lives and their own disappearing bodies…This is a People’s History of the siege, realized at last, and as such should be added to the short list of essential reading on the subject. -- Debra Dean * Washington Independent Review of Books *In this fascinating analysis of the experience of average Soviet citizens during the Siege of Leningrad, Peri investigates the everyday experiences of the blokadniki, those who survived for over 900 days during the German blockade of the city during WW II. Using 125 unpublished diaries, [Peri] provides a unique perspective on those who lived inside the ‘ring’ created by the German siege. -- R. W. Lemmons * Choice *From 1941 until 1944, the city of Leningrad was under siege from Germany and Finland for a total of 872 days; almost one million citizens perished during that time. Peri takes readers on a terrifying journey of the turmoil faced by the residents of Leningrad via reviewing and synthesizing 125 unpublished diaries from those imprisoned in the city, the Blokadnik or Siege of Leningrad survivors…Readers interested in the effects of a military siege on individuals will find much to digest here. Moreover, history buffs will learn new information about the people of Leningrad during this terrible time. -- Jason L. Steagall * Library Journal *Vivid, true, and magnificently crafted. Peri has peeled away layer after layer of the human record to its core—physical, mental, spiritual. -- Nina Tumarkin, author of Lenin Lives!By mining an extraordinarily rich treasure trove of unpublished diaries, Peri moves beyond relating what happened during the blockade and instead explains how Leningraders made sense of it. Sophisticated, nuanced, and extremely well written, The War Within is a major contribution to our understanding of the mentality of Leningrad’s civilians during the blockade and the role that diaries played in Soviet history. -- Richard Bidlack, coauthor of The Leningrad Blockade, 1941–1944: A New Documentary History from the Soviet ArchivesDiaries from the Stalin era tend to be analyzed in numbers too small to provide more than a glimpse of everyday life. Here, however, Peri has assembled over a hundred of these rare records, which allows for unprecedented insight into the trials and tribulations that ordinary people experienced during one of their greatest ordeals: the 900-day siege of Leningrad. This is a truly groundbreaking study. -- David Brandenberger, author of Propaganda State in Crisis: Soviet Ideology, Indoctrination, and Terror under Stalin, 1927–1941In the winter of 1941–1942, civilians in blockaded Leningrad lived on the very edge of death. Conveying their life stories and struggles with great sensitivity, Peri draws on more than a hundred largely unpublished diaries to explore how the external crisis provoked an internal crisis that destabilized Leningraders’ fundamental understandings of themselves, the Soviet Union, and the world. -- Lisa A. Kirschenbaum, author of The Legacy of the Siege of Leningrad, 1941–1995: Myth, Memories, and Monuments

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Book SynopsisVolume 12 opens with John Adams's inauguration as president and closes just after details of the XYZ affair become public in America. Through private correspondence, and with the candor and perception expected from the Adamses, family members reveal their concerns for the well-being of the nation and the sustaining force of domestic life.

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Book SynopsisTo Free a Family tells the remarkable story of Mary Walker, who in August 1848 fled her owner for refuge in the North and spent the next seventeen years trying to recover her son and daughter. Her freedom, like that of thousands who escaped from bondage, came at a great price—remorse at parting without a word, fear for her family’s fate.Trade ReviewWith few exceptions, we know little about the day-to-day lives of female runaways, their families, and their relationships with Northern whites. Sydney Nathans’s To Free a Family is a minor masterpiece that goes a long way toward filling this gap. [It is] deeply researched and elegantly written… Nathans is brilliant at reconstructing Mary Walker’s life and her relationship with Peter and Susan Lesley… Nathans creates a vibrant and subtle portrait of the Lesleys, enabling readers to decide for themselves how trusting Mary Walker’s relationship with them became. The result is a remarkable story of an extended biracial family that embarked on a 15-year effort to reunite Walker with her surviving children. -- John Stauffer * Wall Street Journal *Like so many other slave stories, Walker’s is mostly shrouded in mystery, but Sydney Nathans has found enough reliable documentation to render it plausible and pertinent… Nathans is a careful researcher and lucid writer. -- Jonathan Yardley * Washington Post *A page-turning history. -- Pam Kelley * Charlotte Observer *In piecing together Walker’s story, historian Sydney Nathans has accomplished a remarkable feat. With a penetrating eye, he researched letters, diaries, public records and more to uncover the wrenching details of Walker’s efforts to reunite her family. Where sources did not reveal the entire story, Nathans is careful to explore multiple possibilities and weigh them. The historian’s craft is readily apparent throughout each chapter. To Free a Family will enthrall the casual reader as well as the scholar. Detailed maps and historic photographs immerse the reader in Walker’s world. The tumultuous events of the Civil War era do not just serve as a contextual backdrop; one can see direct effects on ordinary people. Almost two decades after escaping, Walker brought her family back together. Her compelling journey reinforces that slavery, in all its brutality, did not destroy the African-American family. -- Nathan P. Johnson * Post and Courier *[A] penetrating narrative… [A] captivating book. -- Charles Shea LeMone * Roanoke Times *Nathans provides a compelling account of one mixed-race slave woman and her quest for freedom, as well as her long struggle to reunite her family in the North… Nathan’s effort to reconstruct long-overlooked historical events through the close readings of correspondence and public records is commendable and comprises an educational, informative contribution to the U.S. narrative. -- C. Warren * Choice *Prior to the Civil War, thousands of African Americans escaped from slavery, but because few recorded their experiences little is known about their efforts to forge new lives in freedom. Mary Walker, the focus of this study, was a light-skinned fugitive who escaped from a North Carolina planter couple when she accompanied them to Philadelphia in 1848. Her history, though unique in many ways, is illustrative of the hardships and challenges such migrants faced and the support they sometimes received from abolitionist networks. Her efforts to preserve her freedom, gain economic independence, and locate and purchase the freedom of her children still held as slaves is pieced together here by Nathans from the papers of Northern abolitionists and Southern slaveholders. The result is an engrossing and readable study, thoroughly researched and well documented, that fills a significant gap in the history of the period. It is recommended for all readers seriously interested in the experience of fugitive slaves in Antebellum America. -- Theresa McDevitt * Library Journal (starred review) *In this rigorously scholarly but totally absorbing narrative, Nathans unfolds a history as spellbinding as a novel, chock-full of fascinating people engaged in a venture both risky and affecting. When the fugitive slave Mary Walker finds refuge with the Lesleys in Pennsylvania, their lives, their families, and their circle of friends become deeply involved in the general cause and the specific mission—to secure the freedom of Walker’s mother and her children. Nathans’s account is full of twists and turns, as efforts to free the family are thwarted and Mary’s son makes his own escape. The intimacy achieved through the use of letters between friends and family is remarkable; here is history lived in an ordinary household. The center, however, is held by Mary Walker’s crusade, accompanied as it is by the Lesleys’ own evolution; Susan finds ‘her work in the world,’ and Peter moves from antislavery to abolition. Nathans has transformed the paraphernalia of academia (ploughing through archives, thorough documentation, guarded speculation) into a book that will entrance the general reader, inform the scholar, and engage both. * Publishers Weekly (starred review) *A remarkable story by a master storyteller, To Free a Family takes us inside the exhilarating and heartbreaking world of those fugitives whose escape from slavery required a separation from family and friends. Nathans brilliantly narrates a neglected area of the black experience. -- Ira Berlin, author of Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in Mainland North AmericaA refreshingly unique portrait not only of a fugitive slave, but also of her complex relations with both her enslavers and with Northern abolitionists who befriended her. Nathans has discovered a remarkable woman, and he has made her as memorable as she was to those who knew and loved her in life. -- Fergus M. Bordewich, author of Bound for Canaan: The Underground Railroad and the War for the Soul of AmericaIn this brilliant biography, Nathans offers an incomparable view into the stresses that escaped slaves had to endure, and he provides a wonderful prism through which to view the dilemmas of race and self-fulfillment that accompanied the long march to freedom. -- William H. Chafe, author of The Rise and Fall of the American CenturyTo Free a Family is a brilliant book, a poignant and elegantly told story of an ordinary fugitive, Mary Walker, whom Nathans has beautifully, vividly brought to life. A true pleasure to read. -- John Stauffer, author of The Black Hearts of Men and Giants: The Parallel Lives of Frederick Douglass and Abraham LincolnTo Free a Family puts names and faces on the historic black struggle to reunite families broken by slavery. Well written and beautifully researched, it is a triumph. -- Jean Fagan Yellin, author of Harriet Jacobs: A LifeOffers a poignant, personal portrait that shows the perils of emancipation and freedom in the nineteenth century…Nathans' portrait of Mary Walker, a fugitive slave, is a masterful work by an accomplished historian. To Free a Family is a wonderful read that deftly navigates the demands of rigorous historical insight while also providing a compelling narrative. -- Kevin Vrevich * Historical Journal of Massachusetts *

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Book SynopsisThe second installment of Harvard’s critically acclaimed five-volume edition of Robert Frost’s correspondence contains letters from 1920 to 1928, 400 of them gathered here for the first time. His 160 correspondents include family, friends, colleagues, fellow writers, visual artists, publishers, educators, librarians, farmers, and admirers.Trade ReviewPraise for the previous volume:“In almost every way, this new edition is a triumph of scholarly care… For all his private flaws, his tragedies large and small, American literature—and the language itself—owes a profound debt to that dark, demonic, beguiling figure, Robert Frost.”—William Logan, New York Times Book Review“Long overdue, The Letters of Robert Frost, Volume 1: 1886–1920 is deservedly getting a lot of attention. Frost is not simply a lively correspondent, he is an artist of the epistolary form, defining himself and his poetic era in these pages… The truly original, splenetic, aphoristic, and revisionary mind of a major poet comes into view.”—Jay Parini, Chronicle of Higher Education“Thanks to Harvard’s undertaking, Frost’s more complete, chronological letters help correct the poet’s legacy by allowing it weight and breadth.”—Valerie Duff, Boston Globe“Not the rustic sage, but the savvy, ambitious, cosmopolitan poet emerges from this first volume of Frost’s lively, shrewd letters… [T]he collection [is] a must for scholars; but Frost’s witty, urbane style make the letters an engaging browse for ordinary readers, too.”—Publishers Weekly“It must be said that these early letters carry the burden of [Frost’s] poetry so finely as to be no embarrassment to the poetry. The book has been edited…with continuous tact and sensitivity to the likely demands of a literate reader.”—David Bromwich, Times Literary Supplement“Such a joy to read… This is the first time a complete version of [Frost’s letters]—running in chronological order—has been made available… Anyone interested in the laborious process an artist must undertake to perfect his craft will read this book with awe and fascination, and as a constant source of inspiration.”—J. P. O’Malley, NPR online“[T]his volume may well inspire a Frost renaissance.”—Kirkus Reviews -- Reviews of The Letters of Robert Frost, Volume 1: 1886–1920A temperamental streak beneath the cultivated persona of the humble, mild-mannered raconteur keeps things lively for the reader. This second installment in an impressive project tracks the transformation of the hardworking craftsman into a monument of American letters. * Publishers Weekly *Meticulously annotated…and provides fascinating insights into his philosophy, politics, and personality. -- Glenn C. Altschuler * Philadelphia Inquirer *This second of a proposed four-volume enterprise comprises 569 letters, two-thirds of which are published here for the first time. This book, like its predecessor—which covers 1886–1920—is a masterpiece of scholarly attention and an important adjunct to the poetry of an American master. Readers hear the poet’s voice in his letters as clearly as in his lyrical, plain-spoken poetry. Frost’s affections, his occupations and preoccupations, his political tendencies, and his aesthetic and moral sensibility are apparent in these letters to family, friends, and fellow poets…These years were also a rich period in Frost’s life: he published four new collections and in 1924 received the first of his four Pulitzers. However, coinciding with success and national recognition were ongoing family health issues and personal tragedy. -- B. Wallenstein * Choice *Exemplary is a wholly inadequate word to characterize [this] joint editorial enterprise. -- William H. Pritchard * Hopkins Review *As one reads The Letters of Robert Frost: Volume Two—never tedious for all the chat and twice as entertaining for the clarity of the notes—poems are still finding him, and he is having some fun. -- David Bromwich * Times Literary Supplement *

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Book SynopsisFor men in the Union and Confederate armies and their families at home, letter writing was the sole means to communicate. Taking pen to paper was a new and daunting task, but Christopher Hager shows how ordinary people made writing their own, and how they in turn transformed the culture of letters into a popular, democratic mode of communication.Trade ReviewChristopher Hager uncovers the worlds of battlefront and home front for ordinary people in one of the most important books ever written on the history of emotions. He finds in the tortured grammar of soldiers and their loved ones the shocks, trauma, fear, and the deadening mundane of war's upheaval. This book is a profound portrait of humanity undisguised, unconventional, and under pressure—a truly original work of literary history. -- David W. Blight, author of Frederick Douglass: American ProphetA deeply researched, imaginatively structured, and eloquently written study of the letter-writing practices of soldiers and family members during the U.S. Civil War. It is the rare scholarly work with a narrative momentum that makes it hard to put down. I have no doubt that it will take its place as the defining book in its field. -- William Merrill Decker, author of Epistolary Practices: Letter Writing in America before TelecommunicationsHager brings alive the personal letters of ordinary soldiers and their families, people who had neither traveled nor written much before the war came calling. With astounding interpretive skill, and in gorgeous prose, he weaves deeply personal stories, gleaning rich and resonant details from words, phrases, and even blank spaces on a page. I Remain Yours is a book for those who study the Civil War or just love to read about it. There is simply no other book like it. -- Martha Hodes, author of Mourning LincolnChristopher Hager has recovered the voices of ordinary soldiers who struggled into literacy during the Civil War. Their letters home are poignant and sometimes heartbreaking. I Remain Yours is an extraordinary addition to the documentary history of the Civil War. -- Joan D. Hedrick, author of Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Life

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Book SynopsisFrancesco Petrarca (13041374), one of the greatest of Italian poets, was also the leading spirit in the Renaissance movement to revive the cultural and moral excellence of ancient Greece and Rome. This two-volume set contains an ample, representative sample from his enormous and fascinating correspondence with all the leading figures of his day.

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Book SynopsisThis is the first collection in English of the extraordinary letters of one of the great writers of the twentieth century. Italy's most important postwar novelist, Italo Calvino (1923-1985) achieved worldwide fame with such books as Cosmicomics, Invisible Cities, and If on a Winter's Night a Traveler. But he was also an influential literary critic,Trade ReviewOne of The Guardian Best Books of 2013, chosen by Pankaj Mishra Selected for the SFG Gift Guide 2013 "[C]onsistently absorbing and suggestive... [T]he chronicle not only of Calvino's intellectual development but of postwar Italy's... The letters in this book deal with great subtlety, sophistication, and wit, and occasionally even a certain cynicism, with challenges that might have overburdened a less mercurial, multifarious, essentially sane spirit."--Jonathan Galassi, New York Review of Books "The image of Calvino as postmodernism's light-footed prince follows easily. But, behind that image, who was Calvino? The publication of a considerable selection of Calvino's letters affords an opportunity, or many opportunities, to ask that question anew."--Lawrence Norfolk, Wall Street Journal "[T]here is no writer alive who resembles ... Calvino. So the appearance of a selection of Calvino's letters in English is a moment of happiness... [T]hese letters offer a gorgeous portrait of Calvino in the midst of his own productivity: as an editor, a reader, a critic, an inventor of new literary forms. And they allow the reader to investigate the complicated background from which those strange forms emerged."--Adam Thirlwell, New Republic "This collection, the first in English, gives voice and witness to a vibrant mind intensely engaged in the literary and political future of postwar Italy and the history of ideas... McLaughlin's translation is award-winning; the extensive notes provide a model of masterful research. Irresistible for Calvino readers."--Library Journal "Italo Calvino's letters ... provide ... pleasure and surprise... In them he shines as an editor of obvious brilliance and a writer of lavish gratitude towards those who appreciate his work."--Vivian Gornick, Prospect "Superbly translated by Martin McLaughlin, these letters place Calvino in the larger frame of 20th century Italy and provide a showcase for his refined and civil voice... Italo Calvino: Letters, 1941-1985 is a charming addition to the Planet Calvino--a place cluttered with sphinxes, chimeras, knights, spaceships and viscounts both cloven and whole."--Ian Thomson, Guardian "[I]mpeccably translated and annotated."--Robert Gordon, Literary Review "[A]ltogether fantastic... Italo Calvino: Letters, 1941-1985 is indispensable in its entirety, a treasure trove of timeless insight on literature and life."--Maria Popova, Brain Pickings "The general reader will come away from the Letters admiring this skeptical, loyal, generous, industrious man, who gave the life of letters the dignity it so often seems to lack."--Adam Kirsch, Barnes and Noble Review "It is impossible to overstate just how sublime and richly insightful Italo Calvino: Letters, 1941-1985 is in its entirety."--Maria Popova, Brain Pickings "This selection of letter offers intellectual riches and access to the workings of a wholly original mind. The presentation of the book is exemplary, with copious, precise notes by Martin McLaughlin identifying not only the recipients of the letters but also the background to the topics under discussion. McLaughlin's translation is fluent and elegant throughout."--Joseph Farrell, The (Scotland) Herald "[F]ascinating... A vastly entertaining collection, meticulously edited and annotated."--Peter Sirr, Irish Times "As the letters chart Calvino's journey from postwar communist concerns with faithfulness to history to his destiny as an imaginative maestro more concerned with being faithful to the universe, the text both instructs and entertains."--Gregory Day, WA Today "[C]ompelling."--Tiffany Nichols, City Book Review "[D]eeply rewarding."--Lisa Hilton, Standpoint "[I]t is provides a far greater insight into the life of Italo Calvino than an ordinary biography would have done."--Artswrap "Michael Wood has made a studious selection of Calvino's letters and a provides an insightful introduction that frames his selection in the larger tableau of Calvino's life and work. Ample notes further clarify many of the personal and historical details as well as the Italian idioms that appear throughout these letters. It is a book worthy of both study and appreciation."--Stephan Delbos, BODY "Selected and introduced by Michael Wood, translated by Martin McLaughlin, the collection is a mesmerizing peek inside the thinking of the great modern fabulist... Much of [Calvino's] letter writing seems to be an exercise in clear expression... He is a writer as scrupulous and demanding on himself as he is on the world around him. Calvino took the role of public intellectual very seriously, convinced in his job to explore the fringes of thought... A writer of such great control and refreshing playfulness, Calvino reveals how serious and unsure his journey was in this collection of candid letters."--Seth Satterlee, PWxyz (Publishers Weekly blog) "There is much to admire in McLaughlin's translation of the letters, not least his sensitivity to Calvino's variations of style and tone, from the ironic to the pedantic. The collection also provides new texts in English that provide valuable insights into the germination of Calvino's best-known works. It captures the writer's generosity and integrity and, above all, his deep and abiding passion for literary culture."--Rita Wilson, Sydney Review of BooksTable of ContentsIntroduction, by Michael Wood vii Translator's Note, by Martin McLaughlin xvii Abbreviations xix 1941-1945 1 1946-1950 32 1951-1955 73 1956-1960 111 1961-1965 212 1966-1970 311 1971-1975 390 1976-1980 461 1981-1985 511 Notes 535 Index 599

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Book SynopsisA work on the wartime letters of Dr Konrad Jarausch, a German high-school teacher of religion and history who served in a reserve battalion of Hitler's army in Poland and Russia, where he died of typhoid in 1942.Trade Review"It's difficult or impossible to summon sympathy for a soldier in Hitler's army--even one with no hatred for Jews--but the letters home of Konrad Jarausch do peel away stereotypes."--Neal Gender, American Jewish World "A detailed and disturbing portrait of a so-called average German soldier of the time... Jarausch has edited 350 of his father's letters, sent from occupied Poland and the PoW camps in Russia between 1939 until his death. His father was too old at 40 to be involved in fighting but he was close enough to the front to give gruesome accounts of the enormous Russian death toll in the camps... [W]hat these letters reveal in astonishing detail is that his belief in German superiority begins to weaken as he notices and hears of the murderous German reprisals, shootings and ethnic cleansing."--Louis Nowra, The Australian "Thought-provoking in its ambiguities... By age, temperament and conviction, then, Jarausch seemed designed for the role of skeptic about the Nazi regime. Reluctant Accomplice charts the growth of Jarausch's belief that Hitler's war was a disaster, for humanity and for Germany itself... The case of Jarausch suggests that, in a situation where radical evil holds sway, goodness has to become equally radical in order to combat it."--Adam Kirsch, The Tablet "Reluctant Accomplice: A Wehrmacht Soldier's Letters from the Eastern Front (Princeton University Press), is a revealing glimpse into the mind of a patriotic German who was skeptical of the Nazi leadership and soured on the fascist regime."--Sheldon Kirshner, Canadian Jewish News "Jarausch's voluminous set of correspondence offers a thoughtful and detailed account of life as a German soldier on the Eastern Front... It shows just how much coming to terms with the Nazi past is still an ongoing process."--Hester Vaizey, European History Quarterly "This remarkable compilation of wartime letters is nothing short of one of the most humbling and insightful reads you're likely to come across this year."--David Marx, David Marx Book Reviews "Reluctant Accomplice is a fascinating, important, and highly readable collection. The documents add depth, complexity, and a tragically human dimension to our understanding of how German soldiers experienced the war on the Eastern Front."--Alan E. Steinweis, Journal of Modern History "In this outstanding edition, Konrad H. Jarausch and his assistants Klaus J. Arnold and Eve M. Duffy have done an excellent job. The book contains an impressive biographical essay about the son's search for the father he never knew. Writers may succeed in producing approaches of this kind--at least sometimes. But historians? Usually such attempts fall flat. Yet this edition impressively proves the contrary--it is indeed possible."--Christian Hartmann, English Historical ReviewTable of ContentsPreface vii Foreword by Richard Kohn xiii In Search of a Father: Deaing with the Legacy of Nazi Complicity 1 Part I: The Polish Campaign 45 Letters from Poland, September 1939 to January 1940 53 Part II: Training Recruits 139 Letters from Poland and Germany, January 1940 to August 1941 146 Part III: War of Annihilation in Russia 237 Letters from Russia, August 1941 to January 1942 246 Acknowledgments 367 Notes to "In Search of a Father" 369 Selected Suggestions for Further Reading 381 Index 383

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Book SynopsisA best-selling poet in England and America, Felicia Hemans was regarded as leading female poet in her day, celebrated as the epitome of national 'feminine' values. This title features a collection of her writings. It includes her letters, which reflect her views of her contemporaries, her work, her negotiations with publishers, and her celebrity.Trade Review"This excellent documentary edition should serve to revive interest in one of the most popular literary figures of the early 19th century."--Virginia Quarterly Review "It is one of the great triumphs of Susan Wolfson's fine new edition that she enables us to see so clearly and with such an unencumbered view the work of one of the greatest of British Romantic poets. This edition sets--and then meets--high standards for textual editing, for circumspect biography, and for intellectual aesthetic, and cultural sensitivity."--Stephen Behrendt, Criticism "This latest offering from Susan Wolfson will undoubtedly become a common reference-point and focus for further consideration of Hemans."--Myra Cottingham, Modern Language ReviewTable of ContentsACKNOWLEDGMENTS INTRODUCTION: Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans, 1793-1835 xiii TEXTS, FORMATS, EDITORIAL PRINCIPLES, ABBREVIATIONS xxxi CHRONOLOGY xxxiii WORKS 1 From The Domestic Affections and Other Poems (1812) 3 The Statue of the Dying Gladiator 3 The Domestic Affections 4 Epitaph on Mr. W---, a Celebrated Mineralogist (ca. 1814-16) 16 The Restoration of the Works of Art to Italy: A Poem (1816) 18 Modern Greece, A Poem (1817) 34 Tales, and Historic Scenes, in Verse (1819) 70 The Widow of Crescentius 70 The Abencerrage 90 The Last Banquet of Antony and Cleopatra 135 Alaric in Italy 139 The Wife of Asdrubal 145 Heliodorus in the Temple 148 Night-Scene in Genoa 151 The Troubadour, and Richard Coeur de Lion 157 The Death of Conradin 163 Patriotic Effusions of the Italian Poets (1821) 171 From The Siege of Valencia; A Dramatic Poem ... With Other Poems (1823) 173 Elysium 173 The Siege of Valencia: A Dramatic Poem 176 Appendix 1: MS Songs 254 Appendix 2: MS, Scene 6 255 Songs of the Cid 256 England's Dead 265 From The Forest Sanctuary; anal Other Poems (1825) 268 The Forest Sanctuary 268 Lays of Many Lands 322 The Suliote Mother 322 Miscellaneous Pieces 324 The Treasures of the Deep 324 Bring Flowers 326 From New Monthly Magazine, 1826 327 The Sound of the Sea 327 From Records of Woman: With Other Poems (1828) 329 Records of Woman 330 Arabella Stuart 331 The Bride of the Greek Isle 340 The Switzer's Wife 347 Properzia Rossi 351 Gertrude, or Fidelity till Death 356 Imelda 358 Edith, a Tale of the Woods 362 The Indian City 368 The Peasant Girl of the Rhone 374 Indian Woman's Death-Song 377 Joan of Arc, in Rheims 380 Pauline 383 Juana 387 The American Forest-Girl 389 Costanza 391 Madeline, a Domestic Tale 395 The Queen of Prussia's Tomb 398 The Memorial Pillar 401 The Grave of a Poetess 403 Miscellaneous Pieces 405 The Homes of England 405 The Sicilian Captive 407 The Lady of the Castle 410 Tasso and his Sister 412 To Wordsworth 415 The Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers in New England 416 The Palm-Tree 418 The Illuminated City 419 The Spells of Home 421 The Graves of a Household 422 The Image in Lava 423 A Parting Song 425 From The Forest Sanctuary: With Other Poem; (1829) 426 Miscellaneous Pieces 426 The Traveller at the Source of the Nile 426 Casabianca 428 Our Daily Paths 430 The Lost Pleiad 432 The Dying Improvisatore 433 From the Annuals (1826-30) 435 Forget Me Not 436 Evening Prayer at a Girls' School 436 The Cliffs of Dover 438 Night-Blowing Flowers 439 The Keepsake 440 The Broken Chain 440 The Amulet 441 Woman and Fame 441 The Literary Souvenir 443 The Mirror in the Deserted Hall 443 From Songs of the Affections, with Other Poems, (1830) 444 Songs 444 A Spirit's Return 444 The Two Homes 452 The Land of Dreams 453 Woman on the Field of Battle 455 Supplement: To the Memory of Lord Charles Murray 457 The Deserted House 458 Miscellaneous Poems 460 Corinne at the Capitol 460 The Diver 462 Late Poems (1831-34) 46,5 The Last Song of Sappho 465 To My Own Portrait 467 The Lyre and Flower 469 From Records of the Autumn of 1834 470 Design and Performance 470 From Blackwood's Edinburgb Magazine 1835 471 Sabbath Sonnet 471 LETTERS 473 To her aunt, 19 December 1808 475 To Matthew Nicholson, 17 July 1811 476 Felicity Browne to Matthew Nicholson, 7 February 1812 477 To Matthew Nicholson, 12 March 1812 479 To William Stanley Roscoe, 22 October 1813 479 To John Murray, 26 February 1817 480 To John Murray, November 1817 481 To James Simpson, 22 October 1819 482 To B. P Wagner, November 1819 484 To Harriett Browne, October 1820 484 To William Jerdan, 11 June 1821 485 To ?, 1822 486 To Fanny Luxmoore, mid-July 1822 487 To William Jacob, 1 May 1823 488 To William Jerdan, 8 May 1823 489 To Miss?, 15 May 1823 490 To William Jerdan, 19 May 1823 491 To Maria Jane Jewsbury, mid-1826 491 To an old friend, January 1827 493 To William Blackwood, 13 June 1827 494 To William Blackwood, 3 November 1827 495 To William Blackwood, 14 February 1828 495 To Rev. Samuel Butler, 19 February 1828 496 To William Blackwood, 1 March 1828 497 To Mary Russell Mitford, 23 March 1828 498 To William Henry Atherton, 9 May 1828 499 To William Blackwood, 29 July 1828 500 To Mary Russell Mitford, 10 November 1828 501 To a friend, early 1829 502 To William Blackwood, ca. January 1830 502 To ?, 22 June 1830 503 To John Lodge, 24 June 1830 504 To Rose Lawrence, ca. 24 June 1830 505 To ?H. F Chorley, 24 June 1830 505 To a male friend from Coniston, 25 June 1830 506 TO "Mr.----," 2 July 1830 507 To Thomas Cadell, 5 July ? 1830 508 To ?Harriett Hughes, early July 1830 508 To ?H. F Chorley's sister, mid July 1830 509 TO John Lodge, 20 July 1830 510 To Rose Lawrence, late July 1830 511 To a new friend in Dublin, Fall 1830 511 To a new friend in Dublin, early 1831 512 To ?, after 12 February 1831 513 To John Lodge, July 1831 513 To Clara Graves, July 1831 514 To William Blackwood, 18 September 1831 515 William Blackwood to FH, 26 September 1831 515 To ?Harriett Hughes, May 1832 516 To ?H. F Chorley, August 1832 516 To Rev. Samuel Butler, 7 November 1833 517 To Wordsworth, before April 1834 517 To?, 28 June 1834 518 To a friend, ?28 June 1834 518 To a friend, early July 1834 519 To Archdeacon Samuel Butler, 26 July 1834 519 To Robert Peel, 10 February 1835 520 To Rose Lawrence, 13 February 1835 521 RECEPTION 523 Lifetime 525 Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1808-11 526 British Critic, 1816 529 Monthly Review, 1819 529 Edinburgh Monthly Review, 1820 530 British Review, 1820 532 Hannah More, 1820 532 Quarterly Review, 1820 533 Byron to John Murray, 1816-20 535 British Critic, 1823 537 British Review, 1823 540 Monthly Review, 1823 541 Joanna Baillie, 1824-27 542 Walter Scott, 1823-29 545 William Blackwood to Hemans, 1828-30 546 Noctes Ambrosianae, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, 1828 548 Francis Jeffrey, Edinburgh Review, 1829 549 The Wordsworths, 1830-37 556 Maria Jane Jewsbury, The Three Histories, 1830 560 "Felicia Hemans," Atbenaum, 1831 562 Andrews Norton to Hemans, 26 June 1831 569 Grants to Hemans, 1835 569 Death 571 L.E.L., Stanzas on the Death of Mrs. Hemans 571 Elizabeth Barrett, StanzasAddressed tO Miss Landon 574 Joanna Baillie to Andrews Norton 576 William Wordsworth, Extempore Effusion 576 Nineteenth-Century Retrospects 580 L.E.L., "On the Character of Mrs. Hemans's Writings," New Monthly, 1835 580 Felicia Hemans, 1838 582 Henry F Chorley, "Personal Recollections," Athenrum, 1835 584 Memorials of Mrs. Hemans, 1836 586 Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 1842 590 George Gilfillan, "Mrs. Hemans," Tait's Edinburgh Magazine, 1847 591 Jane Williams, The Literary Women of England, 1861 599 William Michael Rossetti, "Prefatory Notice," 1878 603 BIBLIOGRAPHY 611 INDEX OF TITLES 621 GENERAL INDEX 623

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Book SynopsisFor over a century, the author (1813-55) has been at the center of a number of important discussions, concerning not only philosophy and theology, but also, the fields such as social thought, psychology, and contemporary aesthetics, especially literary theory. This title covers his journals and notebooks that take us into his workshop.Trade Review"Elegantly laid out so that the reader can follow the author's text and marginalia, and copiously supplied with notes and commentary, these books are a pleasure to read."--Daniel Johnson, Standpoint "For all of his lyricism, many of Kierkegaard's works project themselves as an impenetrable fortress of abstractions. These magnificently translated journals are a tunnel beneath the moat of that fortress. They capture the unpackaged and unbuttoned Kierkegaard and thus provide a stimulus to anyone intent on understanding a religious author who could well be reckoned a Luther of Lutheranism."--Gordon Marino, Christian Century "These new critical editions do an excellent job of making Kierkegaard's journals and notebooks available in all their richness."--Brian Gregor, Elizabeth C. Shaw and StaffTable of ContentsIntroduction vii Journal NB11 1 Journal NB12 141 Journal NB13 271 Journal NB14 343 Notes for Journal NB11 443 Notes for Journal NB12 495 Notes for Journal NB13 579 Notes for Journal NB14 619 Maps 687 Calendar 693 Concordance 699

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Book SynopsisIn April 1922, we find Einstein lecturing in Paris, engaged in reestablishing ties among scientists in former enemy nations. This title recounts in poetic prose the hectic schedule on land, the contemplative rest at sea, and his musings on science, philosophy, and art during his first encounter with the Far East, Palestine, and Spain.Trade Review"Einstein continues to fascinate minds. His letters to various people speak his mind directly to the reader. Even for a non-science student, it makes an interesting read."-- Sarthak Shankar, Organiser "The joy of the Collected Papers, which has now reached the 13th volume and the year 1922, is that it reveals these lesser known facets of this extraordinary man, allowing us to go beyond the famous mask."--Peter Forbes, Guardian "As usual, this volume is of excellent quality with respect to the printing, the contents, and the illustrations."--Zentralblatt MATH "A rich array of assorted documentary evidence, most of which appears here for the first time."--David E. Rowe, MetascienceTable of ContentsList of Texts xiii List of Illustrations xxxi INTRODUCTORY MATERIAL Introduction to Volume 13 xxxiii Editorial Method of the Series lxxix Acknowledgments lxxxvii Note on the Translation lxxxix List of Abbreviations xc Location Symbols xci Descriptive Symbols xciv TEXTS 1 Alphabetical List of Correspondence 753 Chronology 771 Calendar of Abstracts 783 Appendixes 833 Literature Cited 893 Index 921 Index of Citations 973

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Book SynopsisIncludes documents that appears in the language in which it was written, and presents the English translations of select portions of non-English materials.Trade Review"Overall, this is a fascinating book (as is the entire series of The Collected Papers) revealing lesser-known aspects and moments of Einstein's multifarious activities as a mathematician, physicist, engineer, philosopher, musician, and social and political activist. In fact, anyone interested in the life and work of this unique personality should acquire not only the present volume but the entire series."--Theophanes Grammenos, Mathematical Reviews ClippingsTable of ContentsLIST OF TEXTS Vol. 3, 10a. "On Boltzmann's Principle and Some of Its Direct Consequences," 2 November 1910 "Uber das Boltzmannsche Prinzip und einige unmittelbar aus demselben fliessende Folgerungen" Vol. 5, 315a. From Heinrich Zangger, after 28 November 1911 Not selected for translation Vol. 5, 505a. To Paul Langevin, 19 January 1914 Not selected for translation Vol. 8, 86a. From Heinrich Zangger, after 28 May 1915 Not selected for translation Vol. 8, 95a. From Heinrich Zangger, 9 July 1915 Not selected for translation Vol. 8, 95b. From Heinrich Zangger, 12 July 1915 Not selected for translation Vol. 8, 113a. From Elsa Einstein, 31 August 1915 Vol. 8, 113b. From Elsa Einstein, 1 September 1915 Vol. 8, 113c. From Elsa Einstein, 4 September 1915 Vol. 8, 113d. From Elsa Einstein, 5 September 1915 Vol. 8, 113e. From Pauline Einstein, 7 September 1915 Vol. 8, 113f. From Elsa Einstein, 7 September 1915 Vol. 8, 113g. From Elsa Einstein, 7 September 1915 Vol. 8, 116a. From Elsa Einstein, 12 September 1915 Vol. 8, 177a. From Paul Ehrenfest, 1 January 1916 Not selected for translation Vol. 8, 493a. To Heinrich Zangger, after 26 March 1918 Vol. 8, 510a. From Heinrich Zangger, after 16 April 1918 Not selected for translation Vol. 9, 35a. To Luise Karr-Krusi, 6 May 1919 Not selected for translation Vol. 9, 140a. To Albert Karr-Krusi, 17 October 1919 Not selected for translation Vol. 7, 33a. Statement on the Hebrew University, 18 February 1920 Vol. 7, 39a. Page proofs for "Propagation of Sound in Partly Dissociated Gases," before 29 April 1920 "Schallausbreitung in teilweise dissoziierten Gasen" Not selected for translation Vol. 10, 80a. From Mileva Einstein-Maric;, before 23 July 1920 Not selected for translation Vol. 7, 45a. "Opinion on Jakob Grommer's Textbook Project," before 11 October 1920 "Gutachten von Professor A. Einstein uber das mathematischphysikalische Unterrichtswerk von Dr. J. Grommer" Vol. 7, 50a. On the Present Situation in Theoretical Physics, 14 January 1921 Vol. 7, 52a. Opinion on Eggeling and Richter's Invention, 3 February 1921 Not selected for translation Vol. 7, 56a. "International Relations in Science," 2 April-10 August 1921 "Internationale Beziehungen in der Wissenschaft" Vol. 7, 56b. Professor Einstein on the Proposed Hebrew University of Jerusalem, before 3 April 1921 Not selected for translation Vol. 7, 60a. Calculations on a Cooler, July 1921-March 1922 Vol. 7, 65a. Expert Opinion on Proposal by Heinrich Lowy, 12 October 1921 "Gutachten" 1. To Charlotte Weigert, early 1922 2."Preface" to Bertrand Russell, Political Ideals, 1922 "Vorwort, " Bertrand Russell. Politische Ideale. Berlin: Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft fur Politik und Geschichte m. b. H., 1922 3. "The International Character of Science," before or on 1 January 1922 "Die Internationale der Wissenschaft" 4. From Max Born and James Franck, 1 January 1922 5. From Hermann Weyl, 3 January 1922 6. To Max Born, 6 January 1922 7. From Hedwig Born, 7 January 1922 8. From Paul Ehrenfest, 8 January 1922 9. To Hermann Anschutz-Kaempfe, 9 January 1922 10. To Friedrich Vieweg & Sohn, 9 January 1922 11. From Richard B. Haldane, 9 January 1922 12. "Proof of the Non-Existence of an Everywhere Regular, Centrally Symmetric Field According to the Field Theory of Kaluza," 10 January 1922 "Beweis der Nichtexistenz eines uberall regularen zentrisch symmetrischen Feldes nach der Feld-Theorie von Th. Kaluza" Scripta Universitatis atque Bibliothecae Hierosolymitanarum. Mathematica et Physica 1 (1923) 13. To Paul Ehrenfest, 11 January 1922 14. From Arnold Sommerfeld, 11 January 1922 15. From Felix Ehrenhaft, 12 January 1922 16. To Maurice Solovine, 14 January 1922 17. From Eberhard Zschimmer, 14 January 1922 18. Expert Opinion on Rudolf Goldschmidt's Patent, after 14 January 1922 "Gutachten zum Amerikanischen Patent Nr 1386329 Goldschmidt" 19. From Richard Courant, 15 January 1922 20. From Michael Polanyi, 15 January 1922 21. From Sanehiko Yamamoto, 15 January 1922 22. From Sanehiko Yamamoto, 15 January 1922 23. "To Allgemeine Elektrizitats-Gesellschaft Berlin. Remarks to an Expert Opinion Prepared for Mr. Sannig," 16 January 1922 "An die allgemeine Elektrizitats-Gesellschaft Berlin. Bemerkung zu einem Herren Sannig gelieferten Gutachten" 24. From Paul Ehrenfest, 17 January 1922 25. To Max Born and James Franck, 18 January 1922 26. To David Hilbert, 18 January 1922 27. To Arnold Sommerfeld, on or after 18 January 1922 28. "Response to the Expert Opinion of Hans Wolff in the Legal Dispute between Anschutz & Co and Kreiselbau,"18 January 1922 "Ruckausserung zu dem Wolffschen Gutachten in Sachen Anschutz contra Kreiselbau" 29. "On an Optical Experiment Whose Result Is Incompatible with the Undulatory Theory," ca. 19 January 1922 "Uber ein optisches Experiment, dessen Ergebnis mit der Undulationstheorie unvereinbar ist" 30. From Paul Ehrenfest, 19 January 1922 31. To Paul Ehrenfest, between 19 and 22 January 1922 32. From Chaim Weizmann, 21 January 1922 33. From Charlotte Weigert, 22 January 1922 Not selected for translation 34. From Heinrich Zangger, after 23 January 1922 Not selected for translation 35. From Koshin Murofuse, around 26 January 1922 Not selected for translation 36. To Emile Berliner, 26 January 1922 37. To Paul Ehrenfest, 26 January 1922 38. To Paul Hausmeister, 26 January 1922 39. From Paul Ehrenfest, 26 January 1922 40. From Jun Ishiwara, 26 January 1922 41. To Arnold Sommerfeld, 28 January 1922 42. From Gregory Breit, 31 January 1922 Not selected for translation 43. "On the Theory of Light Propagation in Dispersive Media," 2 February 1922 "Zur Theorie der Lichtfortpflanzung in dispergierenden Medien" Preussische Akademie der Wissenschaften (Berlin). Physikalischmathematische Klasse. Sitzungsberichte (1922) 44. From Hermann Anschutz-Kaempfe, 3 February 1922 45. From Paul Ehrenfest, 4 February 1922 46. From Joan Voute, 11 February 1922 Not selected for translation 47. To Paul Ehrenfest, 12 February 1922 48. To Hans Albert and Eduard Einstein, 12 February 1922 49. From Hans Albert Einstein, between 12 February and 4 March 1922 50. From Eduard Einstein, between 12 February and 4 March 1922 51. To Madeleine Rolland, 15 February 1922 52. From Emil Warburg, 15 February 1922 53. "Proposal for the Nomination of a Corresponding Member in Physics" [Niels Bohr], before 16 February 1922 "Antrag auf Ernennung eines korrespondierenden Mitglied des aus dem Gebiete der Physik" 54. From Paul Ehrenfest, 16 February 1922 55. From Wolfgang Hallgarten, 16 February 1922 56. From Paul Langevin, 18 February 1922 57. To Paul Ehrenfest, 20 February 1922 58. To Oswald Veblen, 20 February 1922 59. To Franz Selety, 22 February 1922 60. To Juliusz Wolfsohn, 22 February 1922 61. From Theodor von Karman, 22 February 1922 62. Review of Wolfgang Pauli, The Theory of Relativity, 24 February 1922 Die Naturwissenschaften 10 (1922) 63. To Paul Langevin, 27 February 1922 64. From Thomas Barclay, 3 March 1922 Not selected for translation 65. From Erich Marx, 3 March 1922 66. To Erich Marx, after 3 March 1922 67. To Hans Albert and Eduard Einstein, 4 March 1922 68. From Edith Einstein, 5 March 1922 69. To Paul Langevin, 6 March 1922 70. From Paul Langevin, 8 March 1922 71. To Paul Langevin, between 8 and 13 March 1922 72. To Bernardo Dessau, 9 March 1922 73. From Richard B. Haldane, 9 March 1922 74. To the French League of Human Rights, 10 March 1922 75. From Lipmann Halpern, 10 March 1922 76. "Theoretical Comments on the Superconductivity of Metals," 11 March 1922 "Theoretische Bemerkungen zur Supraleitung der Metalle" Het Natuurkundig Laboratorium der Rijksuniversiteit te Leiden in de jaren 1904-1922. Gedenkboek aangeboden aan H. Kamerlingh Onnes, directeur van het Laboratorium bij gelegenheid van zijn veertigjarig professoraat op 11 November 1922. Leyden: Ijdo, 1922 77. From Paul Ehrenfest, 11 March 1922 78. From Heinrich Zangger, after 11 March 1922 79. To Paul Ehrenfest, between 11 and 13 March 1922 80. From Michele Besso, 12 March 1922 81. To the Prussian Academy of Sciences, 13 March 1922 82. From Paul Ehrenfest, 13 March 1922 83. From Paul Winteler, 13 March 1922 Not selected for translation 84. To Thomas Barclay, 14 March 1922 85. To Maurice Solovine, 14 March 1922 86. From Michael Polanyi, 14 March 1922 87. To Paul Ehrenfest, 15 March 1922 88. From Maurice Croiset, 15 March 1922 89. To Max Hirschfeld, 17 March 1922 Not selected for translation 90. To Paul Winteler and Maja Winteler-Einstein, 17 March 1922 91. To Arnold Berliner, on or after 17 March 1922 Not selected for translation 92. To Maurice Croiset, 18 March 1922 93. To Gustav and Regina Maier-Friedlander, 18 March 1922 Not selected for translation 94. From Hermann Anschutz-Kaempfe, 18 March 1922 95. To Michele Besso, 20 March 1922 96. To Robert A. Millikan, Paul Epstein, and Richard C. Tolman, 20 March 1922 97. From Thomas Barclay, 20 March 1922 98. From Leo Jolowicz, 20 March 1922 99. From Paul Langevin, 20 March 1922 100. From Mileva Einstein-Maric;, around 21 March 1922 101. From Zhu Jia-hua, 21 March 1922 102. From Paul Winteler, 21 March 1922 Not selected for translation 103. To Maurice Solovine, 22 March 1922 104. To Joan Voute, 22 March 1922 105. From Paul Langevin, 22 March 1922 106. From Paul Winteler, 22 March 1922 Not selected for translation 107. To Paul Ehrenfest, 23 March 1922 108. To Paul Langevin, 23 March 1922 109. From Erwin Finlay Freundlich, 24 March 1922 110. To Thomas Barclay, 25 March 1922 111. To Zhu Jia-hua, 25 March 1922 112. To Leo Jolowicz, 25 March 1922 113. To Arthur Nussbaum, 26 March 1922 114. From Paul Ehrenfest, 26 March 1922 115. From Hantaro Nagaoka, 26 March 1922 116. To Hermann Anschutz-Kaempfe, 27 March 1922 117. To Viktor Engelhardt, 27 March 1922 118. To Jun Ishiwara, 27 March 1922 119. To Hans Reichenbach, 27 March 1922 120. To Charles Nordmann, before 28 March 1922 Not selected for translation 121. From Wilhelm Mayer-Kaufbeuren, 28 March 1922 Not selected for translation 122. To Elsa Einstein, 29 March 1922 123. To Elsa Einstein, 31 March 1922 124. From Peter Debye, 31 March 1922 125. From Beatrice Jahn-Rusconi Besso, 31 March 1922 Not selected for translation 126. To Paul Langevin, 1 April 1922 127. From Hermann Anschutz-Kaempfe, 2 April 1922 128. From Emile Berliner, 2 April 1922 129. From Ludwig Hopf and Theodor von Karman, 3 April 1922 130. From Paul Block, 4 April 1922 131. "The Theory of Relativity." Discussion Remarks at a Meeting of the Societe francaise de Philosophie, 6 April 1922 "La Theorie de la Relativite" Societe francaise de Philosophie. Bulletin 22 (1922) 132. From Oswald Veblen, 6 April 1922 133. From Paul Winteler, 6 April 1922 Not selected for translation 134. To Elsa Einstein, 8 April 1922 135. From Chenzu Wei, 8 April 1922 136. From Gustave Le Bon, 9 April 1922 Not selected for translation 137. From Georg Maschke, 9 April 1922 138. From Paul Oppenheim, 9 April 1922 139. To Lucien Chavan, 10 April 1922 140. From Paul Langevin, 10 April 1922 141. To Ilse Einstein, 11 April 1922 142. From Hans Albert Einstein, 12 April 1922 143. From Peter Debye, 14 April 1922 144. From Paul G. Tomlinson, 14 April 1922 145. To Georg Maschke, 15 April 1922 146. To Paul Oppenheim, 15 April 1922 147. From Jacques Hadamard, 16 April 1922 148. To Heinrich J. Goldschmidt, 17 April 1922 149. From Paul Ehrenfest, 17 April 1922 150. To Peter Debye, 18 April 1922 151. To Charles-Eugene Guye, 18 April 1922 152. To Romain Rolland, 19 April 1922 153. To Paul Block, 20 April 1922 154. To Maurice Solovine, 20 April 1922 155. From Peter Debye, 20 April 1922 156. From Maja Winteler-Einstein, 20 April 1922 Not selected for translation 157. To Paul Ehrenfest, 21 April 1922 158. From Romain Rolland, 21 April 1922 159. From Paul Colin, 22 April 1922 Not selected for translation 160. From Paul Ehrenfest, 22 April 1922 161. To Maja Winteler-Einstein, 23 April 1922 162. From Sebastian Kornprobst, 23 April 1922 163. To Paul Ehrenfest, 24 April 1922 164. To Sebastian Kornprobst, 24 April 1922 165. To Otto Soehring, 24 April 1922 166. From Paul Block, 24 April 1922 167. From Paul Langevin, 25 April 1922 168. From Maurice Solovine, 27 April 1922 169. To Emile Borel, 28 April 1922 170. To Hans Delbruck, 28 April 1922 171. To Jacques Hadamard, 28 April 1922 172. To Moritz Schlick, 28 April 1922 173. To Mario Viscardini, 28 April 1922 174. To Elsa Einstein, 29 April 1922 175. From Max Born, 30 April 1922 176. From Paul Painleve, 30 April 1922 Not selected for translation 177. To Chenzu Wei, 3 May 1922 178. To Elsa Einstein, 4 May 1922 179. To Hans Albert Einstein, 5 May 1922 180. From Edgar Zilsel, 5 May 1922 Not selected for translation 181. Two Aphorisms, 8 May 1922 182. To Paul Painleve, 8 May 1922 183. From Henri Barbusse, 8 May 1922 184. Paul Ehrenfest to Niels Bohr, 8 May 1922 Not selected for translation 185. From David Hilbert, 9 May 1922 186. To Elsa Einstein, 10 May 1922 187. From Edward H. Synge, 10 May 1922 188. To Paul Langevin, 12 May 1922 189. From Emile Borel, 13 May 1922 Not selected for translation 190. To Max Born, on or after 14 May 1922 191. From Paul Ehrenfest, 16 May 1922 192. From Eric Drummond, 17 May 1922 193. To Paul Ehrenfest, 18 May 1922 194. Recommendation for Paul Hertz, 18 May 1922 195. To Gustave Le Bon, 19 May 1922 196. To Felix Rosenbluth, 19 May 1922 197. To Oskar Heimann, 20 May 1922 198. To Hantaro Nagaoka, 20 May 1922 199. From Robert A. Millikan, 22 May 1922 200. To Paul Ehrenfest, 23 May 1922 201. To Robert A. Millikan, 25 May 1922 202. To Robert A. Millikan, 25 May 1922 203. To Erwin Finlay Freundlich, 26 May 1922 Not selected for translation 204. From Max Planck, 26 May 1922 205. From Marie Curie-Sklodowska, 27 May 1922 206. From Uzumi Doi, 27 May 1922 See documentary edition for the English letter 207. To Marie Curie-Sklodowska, 30 May 1922 208. To Eric Drummond, 30 May 1922 209. From Hermann Weyl, 31 May 1922 210. From Maja Winteler-Einstein, 31 May 1922 Not selected for translation 211. To Friedrich Heilbron, 1 June 1922 212. To Humboldt-Film-Gesellschaft, 1 June 1922 213. On the "Einstein Film," 2 June 1922 Berliner Tageblatt, 2 June 1922 214. From Leopold Koppel, 2 June 1922 215. From Chaim Weizmann, 2 June 1922 216. To Friedrich Vieweg, 3 June 1922 217. From Aurel Stodola, 5 June 1922 Not selected for translation 218. To Hellmut von Gerlach, 6 June 1922 219. To Hermann Weyl, 6 June 1922 220. Response to Ernest Bovet's Question to Paul Langevin, 7 June 1922 Wissen und Leben 15 (1922) 221. From Hans Delbruck, 7 June 1922 222. From Henry S. Hatfield, 7 June 1922 Not selected for translation 223. From Gustave Le Bon, 7 June 1922 Not selected for translation 224. From Heinrich Zangger, between 8 and 18 June 1922 Not selected for translation 225. From Hermann Anschutz-Kaempfe, 9 June 1922 226. "Second Supplementary Expert Opinion in the Matter of the Gesellschaft fur nautische Instrumente vs. Anschutz & Co.," between 9 June and 10 July 1922 "Zweites Nachtrags-Gutachten in Sachen Gesellschaft fur nautische Instrumente gegen Anschutz & Co." 227. From George Jaffe, 10 June 1922 Not selected for translation 228. Address to the German-French Peace Meeting, 11 June 1922 Die Brucke uber den Abgrund. Fur die Verstandigung zwischen Deutschland und Frankreich. Bericht uber den Besuch der "Franzosischen Liga fur Menschenrechte" in Berlin und im Ruhrgebiet. Otto Lehmann-Russbuldt, ed. Berlin: Bund Neues Vaterland, 1922 Not selected for translation 229. From Aarau Cantonal School Class of 1897, 11 June 1922 Not selected for translation 230. From Wilhelm Westphal, 12 June 1922 231. "Emil Warburg as Researcher," 13 June 19228 "Emil Warburg als Forscher," Die Naturwissenschaften 10 (1922) 232. To Aurel Stodola, 13 June 1922 233. To Thorstein G. Wereide, 13 June 1922 234. Introductory Remarks to Hans Thirring, L'idee de la theorie de la relativite, ca. 14 June 1922 Hans Thirring. L'Idee de la theorie de la relativite. Maurice Solovine, trans. Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1923 235. From Emile Borel, 14 June 1922 Not selected for translation 236. From Max Born, 16 June 1922 237. To Max Born, on or after 16 June 1922 238. From Paul Ehrenfest, 17 June 1922 239. To Hermann Anschutz-Kaempfe, 18 June 1922 240. To Gustave Le Bon, 18 June 1922 241. To Heinrich Zangger, 18 June 1922 242. From Eduard Einstein, 18 June 1922 243. From Hans Albert Einstein, 21 June 1922 244. From Max(?) Kreutzer, 23 June 1922 Not selected for translation 245. To Mathilde Rathenau, after 24 June 1922 246. From Hans Albert Einstein, after 24 June 1922 247. From Eduard Einstein, after 24 June 1922 248. From Mileva Einstein-Maric;, after 24 June 1922 249. From Mathilde Rathenau, after 24 June 1922 250. From Hermann Anschutz-Kaempfe, 25 June 1922 251. From Paul Epstein, 26 June 1922 252. From Gustave Le Bon, 27 June 1922 Not selected for translation 253. From Friedrich Sternthal, 28 June 1922 Not selected for translation 254. From Emile Borel, 29 June 1922 Not selected for translation 255. To Gustave Le Bon, 30 June 1922 256. From Chaim Weizmann, 30 June 1922 257. To Hermann Anschutz-Kaempfe, 1 July 1922 258. To Walther Nernst, 1 July 1922 259. From Otto Gradenwitz, 1 July 1922 260. From Hermann Anschutz-Kaempfe, 2 July 1922 261. To Richard B. Haldane, 3 July 1922 262. To Marie Curie-Sklodowska, 4 July 1922 263. To Eric Drummond, 4 July 1922 264. To Henry S. Hatfield, 4 July 1922 265. From Sigmund Einstein, 4 July 1922 266. To Max Planck, 6 July 1922 267. From Raymond de Rienzi, 6 July 1922 Not selected for translation 268. From Marie Curie-Sklodowska, 7 July 1922 269. From Gustave Le Bon, 7 July 1922 Not selected for translation 270. From George Jaffe, 8 July 1922 271. From Max von Laue, 8 July 1922 272. From Max Planck, 8 July 1922 273. From Gilbert Murray, 10 July 1922 See documentary edition for the English letter 274. To Henri Barbusse, 11 July 1922 275. To Marie Curie-Sklodowska, 11 July 1922 276. To Hermann Anschutz-Kaempfe, 12 July 1922 277. To Debendra Nath Bannerjea, 12 July 1922 278. To Max von Laue, 12 July 1922 279. To Max Planck, 12 July 1922 280. To the Prussian Academy of Sciences, 12 July 1922 Not selected for translation 281. To Pierre Comert, between 12 and 19 July 1922 282. From Bernardo Attolico, 12 July 1922 Not selected for translation 283. From Sanehiko Yamamoto, between 12 July and 8 August 1922 Not selected for translation 284. To Otto Gradenwitz, 13 July 1922 285. To Gustave Le Bon, 13 July 1922 286. To Gilbert Murray, 13 July 1922 287. From Richard B. Haldane, 14 July 1922 288. From Gerhard Kowalewski, 14 July 1922 Not selected for translation 289. To George Jaffe, 15 July 1922 290. From Hermann Anschutz-Kaempfe, 15 July 1922 291. From Heinrich Zangger, between 15 and 25 July 1922 Not selected for translation 292. To Hermann Anschutz-Kaempfe, 16 July 1922 293. To Maurice Solovine, 16 July 1922 294. To Chaim Weizmann, 17 July 1922 295. From George Jaffe, 17 July 1922 296. From Gilbert Murray, 17 July 1922 297. From Richard Eisenmann, 18 July 1922 298. From Hermann Anschutz-Kaempfe, 19 July 1922 299. From Gustave Le Bon, 19 July 1922 Not selected for translation 300. From Peter Pringsheim, 19 July 1922 301. From Hermann Struck, 19 July 1922 Not selected for translation 302. To George Jaffe, 22 July 1922 303. To Erich Marx-Weinbaum, 22 July 1922 304. To Wolfgang Ostwald, 22 July 1922 305. From Chenzu Wei, 22 July 1922 306. To Hermann Anschutz-Kaempfe, 25 July 1922 307. To Sigmund Einstein, 25 July 1922 308. To Gerhard Kowalewski, 25 July 1922 309. To Gilbert Murray, 25 July 1922 310. From George Jaffe, 26 July 1922 311. To Richard Eisenmann, 27 July 1922 312. To Hendrik K. de Haas, 27 July 1922 313. From Chaim Weizmann, 27 July 1922 314. To Eric Drummond, 29 July 1922 315. "Quantum Theoretical Comments on the Experiment of Stern and Gerlach," before 30 July 1922 "Quantentheoretische Bemerkungen zum Experiment von Stern und Gerlach" Zeitschrift der Physik 11 (1922) 316. From Paul Ehrenfest, 30 July 1922 317. "In Memoriam Walther Rathenau," August 1922 Neue Rundschau 33 (1922) 318. "On the Present Crisis of Theoretical Physics," August 1922 "Uber die gegenwartige Krise der theoretischen Physik," Kaizo 4, no. 12 (December 1922) 319. From Hantaro Nagaoka, 2 August 1922 320. From Max Born, 6 August 1922 321. From Heinrich Zangger, between 6 and 28 August 1922 Not selected for translation 322. From Michele Besso, 8 August 1922 323. From Henry N. Brailsford, 10 August 1922 324. From Moritz Schlick, 13 August 1922 325. To Jacques Loeb, 14 August 1922 326. From Helene Stocker, 14 August 1922 Not selected for translation 327. From David Hilbert, 15 August 1922 328. From Hermann Anschutz-Kaempfe, 20 August 1922 329. To Paul Ehrenfest, on or after 21 August 1922 330. From Maja Winteler-Einstein, 25 August 1922 331. To Maximilian Pfister, 28 August 1922 332. From Paul Dienes, 28 August 1922 Not selected for translation 333. From Paul Ehrenfest, 29 August 1922 334. To Richard B. Haldane, 30 August 1922 335. To Paul Painleve, 30 August 1922 336. From Richard B. Haldane, after 30 August 1922 Not selected for translation 337. To Carl Speyer, 31 August 1922 338. To Paul Dienes, or or after 31 August 1922 339. "On Anisotropic Pressure Forces in Gases with Heat Flow," September 1922 "Uber anisotrope Druck-Krafte in warme-durchstromten Gasen" 340. "Comment on A. Friedmann's Paper: 'On the Curvature of Space,'" September 1922 "Bemerkungen zu der Arbeit von A. Friedmann "Uber die Krummung des Raumes" Zeitschrift fur Physik 11 (1922) 341. To Chaim Weizmann, after 2 September 1922 342. From Fritz Haber, 3 September 1922 343. From Henry N. Brailsford, 4 September 1922 344. From Jacques Loeb, 4 September 1922 345. From Albert Karr-Krusi, 6 September 1922 Not selected for translation 346. From Helene Stocker, 7 September 1922 347. "The Peril to German Civilisation," 11 September 1922 The New Leader 1 (1922) 348. To Henry N. Brailsford, 11 September 1922 Not selected for translation 349. To Richard B. Haldane, 11 September 1922 350. From Franz Selety, 11 September 1922 351. To Max Wertheimer, 12 September 1922 352. To Alfred L. Berthoud, 14 September 1922 353. To Thorvald Madsen, 14 September 1922 354. From Chugi (Tadayoshi) Akita, 15 September 1922 355. From Raymond de Rienzi, 15 September 1922 Not selected for translation 356. To Chugi (Tadayoshi) Akita, on or after 15 September 1922 357. To Tullio Levi-Civita, on or after 15 September 1922 358. To Arnold Sommerfeld, 16 September 1922 359. From Svante Arrhenius, on or before 17 September 1922 360. From Max Wertheimer, 17 September 1922 361. To Swiss Embassy, Berlin, 18 September 1922 362. To Max Wertheimer, 18 September 1922 363. From Max von Laue, 18 September 1922 364. From Max Wertheimer, 19 September 1922 Not selected for translation 365. To Svante Arrhenius, 20 September 1922 366. To Hans Reichenbach, 20 September 1922 367. To Carl Beck, 22 September 1922 368. To Jacques Loeb, 22 September 1922 369. From Michele Besso, 24 September 1922 370. "Comment on Franz Selety's Paper: 'Contributions to the Cosmological System,'" [12-25] September 1922 "Bemerkung zu der Franz Seletyschen Arbeit "Beitrage zum kosmologischen System" " Annalen der Physik 69 (1922) 371. To Franz Selety, 25 September 1922 372. To Edgar Zilsel, 25 September 1922 373. To Michele Besso, 26 September 1922 374. To Eberhard Zschimmer, 27 September 1922 375. To Romain Rolland, on or before 30 September 1922 376. To Pierre Comert, 1 October 1922 377. To Michele Besso, 4 October 1922 378. Poem to Albert and Luise Karr-Krusi, on or before 6 October 1922 Not selected for translation 379. Travel Diary Japan, Palestine, Spain, 6 October 1922-12 March 1923 380. From Chaim Weizmann, 6 October 1922 381. To Hans Albert and Eduard Einstein, 7 October 1922 382. To Marcel Grossmann, 7 October 1922 383. From Richard B. Haldane, 23 October 1922 384. From Christopher Aurivillius, 10 November 1922 385. From Christopher Aurivillius, 10 November 1922 386. From Niels Bohr, 11 November 1922 387. "Comment on E. Trefftz's Paper: 'The Static Gravitational Field of Two Mass Points in Einstein's Theory,'" 23 November 1922 "Bemerkung zu der Abhandlung von E. Trefftz:"Das statische Gravitationsfeld zweier Massenpunkte in der Einsteinschen Theorie" Preussische Akademie der Wissenschaften (Berlin). Physikalischmathematische Klasse. Sitzungsberichte (1922) 388. "Einstein's Opinion on the Investigation of Responsibilities for the War," 25 November 1922 "Sur la recherche des responsabilites de la guerre" Les cahiers des droits de l'homme 22 (1922) 389. From Hantaro Nagaoka et al., 1 December 1922 Not selected for translation 390. From Alexander Friedmann, 6 December 1922 391. "Musings on My Impressions in Japan," on or after 7 December 1922 "Plauderei uber meine Eindrucke in Japan" Kaizo 5 (1923) 392. From Yuanpei Cai, 8 December 1922 393. To Bansui Tsuchii (Doi), 9 December 1922 394. Preface for the Japanese edition of Georg Nicolai's Biologie des Krieges, [10 December 1922] Not selected for translation 395. To Heinrich Zangger, 11 December 1922 396. From Henrik Sederholm and Knut A. Posse, 11 December 1922 397. To Sanehiko Yamamoto, 12 December 1922 398. "Answer to Questions on Religion," 14 December 1922 Kaizo 5 (1922) Editorial Note: Einstein's Lecture at the University of Kyoto Not selected for inclusion 399. How I Created the Theory of Relativity, (Jun Ishiwara's Notes of Einstein's Lecture at Kyoto University) 14 December 1922 Kaizo 5, no. 2 (1923) See documentary edition for English translation 400. To Hans Albert and Eduard Einstein, 17 December 1922 401. To Michele Besso and Anna Besso-Winteler, 19 December 1922 Not selected for translation 402. To Wilhelm Solf, 20 December 1922 403. To Yuanpei Cai, 22 December 1922 404. To Max and Hedwig Born, 23 December 1922 405. To Jun Ishiwara, between 23 and 29 December 1922 406. "Preface" to Japanese Collection of Papers, 27 December 1922 "Vorwort" Einstein Zenshu [The Collected Works of Einstein]. Jun Ishiwara, et al., trans. Tokyo: Kaizo-Sha, 1922-1924. 407. To Yoshi Yamamoto, 27 December 1922 Not selected for translation 408. From Wilhelm Solf, 27 December 1922 Not selected for translation 409. "Farewell to Japan," 28 December 1922 Fukuoka Nichinichi Shinbun Not selected for translation 410. To Ayao Kuwaki, 29 December 1922 411. To Bansui Tsuchii (Doi), 30 December 1922 412. To Eiichi Tsuchii (Doi), 30 December 1922 413. To Sanehiko Yamamoto, 30 December 1922 414. To Yoshi Yamamoto, 30 December 1922 415. To Charlotte Weigert, between 31 December 1922 and 2 January 1923 Not selected for translation 416. From Rafaele Contu, 8 January 1923 417. "On the General Theory of Relativity," ca. 9 January 1923 "Zur allgemeinen Relativitatstheorie" 418. Calculations on Back Pages of Travel Diary, ca. 9-22 January 1923 Not selected for translation 419. Fragment and Calculation on the General Theory of Relativity ca. January 1923 Not selected for translation 420. To Svante Arrhenius, 10 January 1923 421. To Niels Bohr, 10 January 1923 422. From Jun Ishiwara, 12 January 1923 423. From Sergei F. von Oldenburg, 18 January 1923 Not selected for translation 424. To Edgar, Else, and Edgar Michel Meyer, 20 January 1923 425. "On the General Theory of Relativity," 22 January 1923 "Zur allgemeinen Relativitatstheorie" Preussische Akademie der Wissenschaften (Berlin). Physikalischmathematische Klasse. Sitzungsberichte (1923) 426. To Nippon Puroretaria Domei, 22 January 1923 427. From Chaim Weizmann, 4 February 1923 428. From Federigo Enriques, 8 February 1923 Not selected for translation 429. To Chaim Weizmann, 11 February 1923 430. To Arthur S. Eddington, 14 February 1923 Not selected for translation 431. From Heinrich Luders, 15 February 1923 Not selected for translation 432. From Nicholas M. Butler, 26 February 1923 433. To Jun Ishiwara, after 26 February or after 21 March 1923 Not selected for translation 434. From Arthur Biram, 1 March 1923 Not selected for translation 435. From Gano Dunn, 1 March 1923 See documentary edition for the original English 436. To Wilhelm Westphal, 2 March 1923 437. From Mauricio David, 2 March 1923 Not selected for translation 438. To the Spanish Academy of Sciences, 4 March 1923 Discursos pronunciados en la sesion solemne que se digno presidir S. M. el Rey el dia 4 de marzo de 1923 celebrada para hacer entrega del diploma de academico corresponsal al profesor Albert Einstein. Real Academia de Ciencias Exactas, Fisicas y Naturales. Madrid: Talleres Poligraficos, 1923 439. From Michael I. Pupin, 4 March 1923 Not selected for translation 440. From Carl Brinkmann, 9 March 1923 Not selected for translation 441. To Hermann Anschutz-Kaempfe, 10 March 1923 442. From Maja Winteler-Einstein, 11 March 1923 443. From Zionistische Vereinigung fur Deutschland (Betty Frankenstein), 14 March 1923 444. From Vossische Zeitung, 15 March 1923 Not selected for translation 445. From Svante Arrhenius, 17 March 1923 446. To Albert Karr-Krusi, 20 March 1923 Not selected for translation 447. To Pierre Comert, 21 March 1923 448. From Paul Winteler, 22 March 1923 Not selected for translation 449. To Svante Arrhenius, 23 March 1923 450. To Carl Brinkmann, 23 March 1923 451. To Zionistische Vereinigung fur Deutschland, 23 March 1923 452. From Michele Besso, 23 March 1923 453. To [Ilse Einstein], before 24 March 1923 454. To Heinrich Luders, 24 March 1923 455. To Sergei F. von Oldenburg, 24 March 1923 456. From Paul Ehrenfest, 27 March 1923 457. From Richard Stern, 28 March 1923 Not selected for translation 458.From Hermann Anschutz-Kaempfe, 31 March 1923 APPENDIXES Not selected for translation A. An Interview with Einstein B. Einstein Discusses His Theory C. Lecture on Light Emission D. Speech at Reception in Singapore E. Lecture at Keio University F. Speech at Jewish Reception in Shanghai G. Notes in Palestine H. Lectures at the University of Madrid I. Honorary Doctorate Speech at the Uni

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Book SynopsisFor over a century, the Danish thinker Soren Kierkegaard (1813-55) has been at the center of a number of discussions, concerning not only philosophy and theology, but also, more recently, fields such as social thought, psychology, and contemporary aesthetics, especially literary theory. This book includes six of Kierkegaard's "NB" journals.Trade Review"For all of his lyricism, many of Kierkegaard's works project themselves as an impenetrable fortress of abstractions. These magnificently translated journals are a tunnel beneath the moat of that fortress. They capture the unpackaged and unbuttoned Kierkegaard and thus provide a stimulus to anyone intent on understanding a religious author who could well be reckoned a Luther of Lutheranism."--Gordon Marino, Christian Century "These new critical editions do an excellent job of making Kierkegaard's journals and notebooks available in all their richness."--Brian Gregor, Elizabeth C. Shaw and StaffTable of ContentsIntroduction vii Journal NB 15 ... 1 Journal NB 1 ... 95 Journal NB 17 ... 165 Journal NB 18 ... 255 Journal NB 19 ... 333 Journal NB 20 ... 395 Notes for Journal NB 15 ... 495 Notes for Journal NB 16 ... 571 Notes for Journal NB 17 ... 613 Notes for Journal NB 18 ... 653 Notes for Journal NB 19 ... 701 Notes for Journal NB 20 ... 741 Maps 789 Calendar 797 Concordance 801

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Book SynopsisThe more than one thousand letters and several dozen writings included in this volume cover the years immediately before the final formulation of new quantum mechanics. The discovery of the Compton effect in 1923 vindicates Einstein's light quantum hypothesis. Niels Bohr still criticizes Einstein's conception of light quanta and advances an alternaTable of ContentsList of Texts xiii List of Illustrations xxxiii INTRODUCTORY MATERIAL Introduction to Volume 14 xxxv Editorial Method of the Series lxxxv Acknowledgments xciii Note on the Translation xcv List of Abbreviations xcvi Location Symbols xcvii Descriptive Symbols c TEXTS 1 Alphabetical List of Correspondence 783 Chronology 805 Calendar of Abstracts 821 Appendixes 905 Literature Cited 1007 Index 1031 Index of Citations 1097

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Faced with Michael Field’s vast and extraordinary output, of prose, poems and plays, selections such as the ones offered in [Chains of Love and Beauty] certainly lend the reader a welcome 'pair – of – scissors.'"---Angela Leighton, Times Literary Supplement"In Chains of Love and Beauty: The Diary of Michael Field . . . scholar Carolyn Dever pulls that diary out of a century of obscurity and unfurls 30 years and almost 10,000 pages to reveal a genre-defying, protomodernist document."---Evangeline Riddiford Graham, Los Angeles Review of Books

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