Published diaries, letters and journals Books
Hachette Australia Dear Lover
Book SynopsisFrom the bestselling, cancer-vanquishing Love Your Sister team, and edited by the indefatigable Samuel Johnson, comes Dear Lover, a funny, revealing and soul-stirring collection of letters written by notable Australians like Turia Pitt, Samuel Johnson, Susie Youssef, Hilde Hinton, Stuart Coupe, Jacqui Lambie, Larry Emdur, John Paul Young, Mandy Beaumont, Rhett Davis, Adam Harvey, Mark Brandi and Kate Mildenhall, to name a few, just in time for Valentine''s Day. What would someone say to their childhood sweetheart, their life partner, their latest crush or their cherished soul mate? ''Thanks for everything?'' ''Unravel your sports socks before you put them in the washing basket?'' Anything goes in this collection of letters. If you could tell your lover anything, what would it be?A big-hearted, comforting and uplifting collection of letters celebrating love. The perfect gift for the one you love.
£20.56
Galison A Trillion Cliches Every Dad Will Do Prompted
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DK Remarkable Diaries The Worlds Most Historic and
Book SynopsisTravel back in time and witness both everyday life and great moments in history in this fascinating compilation of diaries through the ages.Bringing together historical and literary diaries, artists' sketchbooks, explorers' journals, and scientists' notebooks, Remarkable Diaries provides an intimate insight into the lives and thoughts of some of the most interesting people of the last two thousand years. Discover what it was like to build a pyramid, sail the seas with Magellan, travel into the heart of Africa, or serve on the Western Front. Find out how writers and artists planned their masterpieces, and how scientists developed their groundbreaking theories.Arranged chronologically, Remarkable Diaries takes you into the pages of the world's greatest diaries, notebooks, and letters, including those of Samuel Pepys, Henry-David Thoreau, the Goncourt brothers, Virginia Woolf, and Anne Frank. Stunning reproductions of the original notebooks and manuscr
£27.00
The History Press Ltd An American on the Western Front
Book SynopsisKimber details his exhilaration, his everyday concerns and his horror as he adapts to an active wartime role. Arthur Clifford Kimber was one of the first Americans on the front line after the entry of the US into the war and, tragically, also one of the last to be buried there – killed in action just a few weeks before the end of the war.
£25.05
McClelland & Stewart Inc. Modern Whore
Book SynopsisOh, the places a whore will go: Strip clubs, four-star hotels, stinking basement apartments, luxury cottages. A striking memoir by Andrea Werhun and Nicole Bazuin documents Andrea''s sex work career in lush photography and powerful words—in all its slippery, sexy, silly and sometimes heartbreaking glory. Andrea Werhun''s sex work career gave her money, freedom, joy, and a lot of dick. A natural performer, she revelled in the opportunity to invent Mary Ann, her escort counterpart, and introduce her to men all over the city. She whores, she learns, she writes it all down, and then, as per a signed document she handed to her Catholic mother in her early twenties, she quits. To become a stripper. Andrea and Nicole revisit the idea of the modern whore, with the enhanced perspective of Andrea''s experience at the strip club. This new, engorged edition of the sold-out memoir-cum-art book expands on the original concept--a series of vignettes exploring the many identities sex workers adopt in the service of their clients and in the eyes of the public--in both a literal and literary way. But Andrea doesn''t shy away from the serious side of sex work, either, exploring the risks sex workers take, and the rights our culture is constantly taking away from them. This series of stories and portraits investigate the many ways we imagine—and mistake—the modern whore. It''s Playboy if the Playmates were in charge.
£28.00
Johns Hopkins University Press Documentary History of the First Federal Congress
Book SynopsisThey make available for the first time in English the frank and insightful letters of the French minister on the subject of the new federal government.Trade ReviewThis complete and well-edited record of the First Federal Congress is a model documentary edition. Historians of the early republic owe thanks to the editors and publisher of this exemplary collection. -- Kenneth R. Stevens Journal of the Early Republic 2006Table of ContentsIllustrationsIntroductionEditorial MethodAcknowledgmentsAbbreviations and SymbolsMembers of the House of RepresentativesMembers of the SenateSubjects Debated in the House of RepresentativesSubjects Debated in the SenateAppointees to Office During the First CongressCorrespondence: First SessionMarch 1789April 1789May 1789
£107.82
Johns Hopkins University Press Documentary History of the First Federal Congress
Book SynopsisThis volume presents letters written by and to members of the First Federal Congress and communications from other informed individuals at the seat of government in New York City by 1789. They bring the official record to life by providing details about the political process.Trade ReviewThis complete and well-edited record of the First Federal Congress is a model documentary edition. Historians of the early republic owe thanks to the editors and publisher of this exemplary collection. -- Kenneth R. Stevens Journal of the Early Republic 2006Table of ContentsIllustrationsCorrespondence: First SessionJune 1789July 1789August 1789
£107.82
Johns Hopkins University Press Documentary History of the First Federal Congress
Book SynopsisThis volume presents letters written by and to members of the First Federal Congress and communications from other informed individuals at the seat of government in New York City by 1789. They bring the official record to life by providing details about the political process.Trade ReviewThis complete and well-edited record of the First Federal Congress is a model documentary edition. Historians of the early republic owe thanks to the editors and publisher of this exemplary collection. -- Kenneth R. Stevens Journal of the Early Republic 2006Table of ContentsIllustrationsCorrespondence: First SessionSeptember 1789October 1789November 1789December 1789Residences of MembersNew York City Weather ChartsBiogrphical GazetteerFirst Session House BillsFirst Session Senate BillsIndex
£107.82
Schocken Books My Russian Grandmother and her American Vacuum
Book SynopsisFrom the author of the acclaimed novel A Pigeon and a Boy comes a charming tale of family ties, over-the-top housekeeping, and the sport of storytelling in Nahalal, the village of Meir Shalev’s birth. Here we meet Shalev’s amazing Grandma Tonia, who arrived in Palestine by boat from Russia in 1923 and lived in a constant state of battle with what she viewed as the family’s biggest enemy in their new land: dirt. Grandma Tonia was never seen without a cleaning rag over her shoulder. She received visitors outdoors. She allowed only the most privileged guests to enter her spotless house. Hilarious and touching, Grandma Tonia and her regulations come richly to life in a narrative that circles around the arrival into the family’s dusty agricultural midst of the big, shiny American sweeper sent as a gift by Great-uncle Yeshayahu (he who had shockingly emigrated to the sinful capitalist heaven of Los Angeles!). America, to little Meir and to his forebears, was a land of hedonism and enchanting progress; of tempting luxuries, dangerous music, and degenerate gum-chewing; and of women with painted fingernails. The sweeper, a stealth weapon from Grandpa Aharon’s American brother meant to beguile the hardworking socialist household with a bit of American ease, was symbolic of the conflicts and visions of the family in every respect. The fate of Tonia’s “svieeperrr”—hidden away for decades in a spotless closed-off bathroom after its initial use—is a family mystery that Shalev determines to solve. The result, in this cheerful translation by Evan Fallenberg, is pure delight, as Shalev brings to life the obsessive but loving Tonia, the pioneers who gave his childhood its spirit of wonder, and the grit and humor of people building ever-new lives.
£14.24
Beacon Press Without a Map
Book Synopsis“A brave writer of tumultuous beauty.” —Entertainment Weekly“Beautifully rendered.” —ElleA poignant, unflinchingly assured memoir.” —The Boston Globe This “sobering portrayal” of a pregnant teen exiled from her small New Hampshire community is “a testament to the importance of understanding and even forgiving the people who . . . have made us who we are” (O, The Oprah Magazine). Meredith Hall’s moving but unsentimental memoir begins in 1965, when she becomes pregnant at sixteen. Shunned by her insular New Hampshire community, she is then kicked out of the house by her mother. Her father and stepmother reluctantly take her in, hiding her before they finally banish her altogether. After giving her baby up for adoption, Hall wanders recklessly through the Middle East, where she survives by selling her possessions
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New Directions Publishing Corporation The Selected Letters of Tennessee Williams Volume
Book SynopsisTennessee Williams wrote to family, friends and fellow artists with equal measures of piety, wit, and astute self-knowledge. Presented with a running commentary to separate Williams' often hilarious, but sometimes devious, counter-reality from the truth, the letters form a kind of autobiography.
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New Directions Publishing Corporation Selected Letters Volume ll 19451957
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New Directions Publishing Corporation War Diary
Book SynopsisA monumental, deeply penetrating document of life in Kyiv during the first forty-one days of the Russian invasion of UkraineTrade Review"How do you remain an artist at such a moment of terror? One answer might come in the form of Belorusets’s war diary which she began publishing as the invasion started and which has gained the appreciation of writers like Margaret Atwood and Miranda July. Through this act of documentation, in words and photographs, she is processing the total collapse of her world and keeping alive her openness, her powers of observation." -- Gal Beckerman - The Atlantic"Belorusets said the practice of photographing her day has been helpful in fighting the fog of war. That at the end of the day she'll start to write, and look at her collection of pictures from the day, and suddenly, things will come back to her—things she'd completely forgotten. . . . And if taking pictures helps remembering the un-rememberable, the writing helps believing the unbelievable." -- Andrew Limbong - NPR"The surreal circumstances Belorusets depicts, both in her writing and in the accompanying color photographs, set against the drama of war are quietly disturbing. A compelling portrait of a nation under siege as well as the inspiring resilience of ordinary Ukrainians." -- Kirkus"The Ukrainian artist and writer began keeping an online diary the day Russia began shelling her hometown of Kyiv, but it quickly took on a global life after its translation by an anonymous collective and a live reading by Margaret Atwood on International Women’s Day. In book form, these collected entries bring home the mix of fear, banality, helplessness and incredulity Beloruset experienced in the war’s first 41 days." -- The Globe and Mail"War Diary mounts an unrelenting assault on civilized comforts." -- John Domini - Brooklyn Rail"In War Diary, no veil of fiction stands between the reader and the nightmare of life under military assault." -- Ben Shull - Wall Street Journal"The big emotional takeaway from War Diary is a sense of abandonment. Belorusets can’t believe that the world is watching these atrocities, right out on Ukraine’s streets, and not stepping in more forcefully. Russia’s troops, to her, seem more like terrorists than soldiers." -- Dwight Garner - The New York Times"Beloruset’s diary is animated by a simple and sincere disbelief that anything as cruel and senseless as war can exist anywhere. … Her struggle to make sense of the violence that has entered her city is an eloquent reminder that missiles falling at home are always unfathomable. In this sense she is speaking for everyone whose life has been interrupted by war, no matter where they live, no matter what their country’s position in the geopolitical landscape." -- Sophie Pinkham - New York Review of Books
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Random House USA Inc Work My Search for a Life That Matters
Book SynopsisNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The acclaimed author of The Other Wes Moore and governor of Maryland continues his inspirational quest for a meaningful life and shares the powerful lessons—about self-discovery, service, and risk-taking—that led him to a new definition of success for our times.“This book is about how to make our journeys not just about surviving and succeeding, but about coming truly alive.”—Arianna Huffington The Work is the story of how one young man traced a path through the world to find his life’s purpose. Wes Moore graduated from a difficult childhood in the Bronx and Baltimore to an adult life that would find him at some of the most critical moments in our recent history: as a combat officer in Afghanistan; a White House fellow in a time of wars abroad and disasters at home; and a Wall Street banker during the financial crisis. In this insightful book, Moore shares the lesso
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Random House USA Inc Chasing Zebras A Veterinarians Stories of Love
Book SynopsisA moving memoir of a life spent in the company of animals—a veterinarian sheds light on the universal experience of loving, healing, and losing our beloved pets, and the many ways they change our lives. The pursuit of a childhood dream has taken Suzy Fincham-Gray on a journey in veterinary medicine from pastoral farms on the English–Welsh border to emergency rooms in urban American animal hospitals, with thousands of stories collected along the way. In this unforgettable literary debut, she writes about some of the most emotionally challenging and rewarding cases of her career. Like many physicians, Fincham-Gray tends to see her patients at often life-or-death moments. While dramatic, these stories expand into deeper explorations of our complex, profound relationships with the animals in our lives. She describes the satisfaction of diagnosing and treating difficult diseas
£20.70
The University Press of Kentucky Take Sides with the Truth The Postwar Letters of
Book SynopsisWert During the Civil War, Confederate John Singleton Mosby led the Forty-third Battalion, Virginia Cavalry, better known as Mosby's Rangers, in many bold and daring operations behind Union lines.Trade ReviewMosby wrote very entertaining letters, and these - many published here for the first time - highlight his intelligence, razor-sharp memory, bounteous wit, and colorful sense of humor. - James A. Ramage, author of Gray Ghost: The Life of Col. John Singleton Mosby
£48.71
The University Press of Kentucky The Letters of Thomas Merton and Victor and
Book SynopsisHowever, many Merton scholars and fans remain unaware of the significant body of letters that were exchanged between the Trappist monk and Victor and Carolyn Hammer.Unable to leave his home at the Abbey of Gethsemani except on special occasions, Merton developed a unique friendship with this couple from nearby Lexington, Kentucky.
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The University Press of Kentucky The Letters of Thomas Merton and Victor and
Book SynopsisHowever, many Merton scholars and fans remain unaware of the significant body of letters that were exchanged between the Trappist monk and Victor and Carolyn Hammer.Unable to leave his home at the Abbey of Gethsemani except on special occasions, Merton developed a unique friendship with this couple from nearby Lexington, Kentucky.
£40.46
University of Minnesota Press The Fall of America Journals 19651971
Trade Review"Allen Ginsberg's The Fall of America Journals, 1965-1971, glistens brightly with openhearted compassion, keen-eyed observation, Bodhisattva mindfulness, political daring, and angelic vision. Expertly edited by Michael Schumacher, every page sparkles with fierce poetic intimacy. The Vietnam War and the Civil Rights Movement, LGBTQ equality, and counterculture insurgency are all nobly documented by Ginsberg. A blowtorch book of Beat/New Left literature for the ages. Highly recommended!"—Douglas Brinkley, editor of Windblown World: The Journals of Jack Kerouac 1947-1954"Following in the footsteps of legendary photographer Robert Frank's groundbreaking The Americans and Jack Kerouac's opus On the Road, Allen Ginsberg gives us deep insight into his poems in The Fall of America. What makes this collection of journals memorable and deeply insightful is that the spontaneous observations cohere in radically unexpected ways. It is the very fundamental questions it asks of an America in total transformation, at warp speed, that makes The Fall of America Journals, 1965-1971 so powerful. If there's one thing you will see at the end of the book and the original collection of Ginsberg poems it refers to, it's that every poem this book refers to is a prismatic hall of mirrors with an incredible back story. Sometimes, it's the stories about the stories that make it all converge. A must read for anyone who enjoys progressive poetry that builds worlds upon worlds upon worlds."—Paul D. Miller aka DJ Spooky "It is interesting to follow along with Schumacher’s notes as to what is being recorded and where it falls into The Fall of America. Having both books open and available is rewarding — the inspiration and the final product."—Evilcyclist’s Bookshelf"The Fall of America Journals, 1965-1971 is a book that describes America’s beauty and its bloodshed; its glories and its shame. It is a history, a road journal, a poetic odyssey with islands of magic, mountains of snow, psychedelic elixirs inducing visions. And dreams. An odyssey and an omnibus, these journals are a work meant to live on a nearby shelf, to be opened if in need of inspiration or assurance. It serves as a road atlas in a universe with multiple dimensions and numerous points of entry."—CounterPunch"This massive collection is another extremely valuable insight into the life and work of Allen Ginsberg and will soon become required reading for Ginsberg scholars. Michael Schumacher has done excellent work transcribing Ginsberg’s tapes and chicken-scratch handwriting into an entertaining volume. His notes, occasionally inserted to fill a gap in Ginsberg’s own journaling, are intelligent and informative."—Beatdom"Yet more catnip for Ginsberg fans and students of 20th-century American literature."—Kirkus Reviews"The Fall of America Journals, once again deftly edited by Michael Schumacher, presents us with the real-time results of Ginsberg’s studies as we stand witness to the shape of the poet’s bare mind in this epic travelogue that sired Ginsberg’s classic collection of poems, The Fall of America."—Electric Review "Anyone with an interest in Beat literature will find endless treasure here."—Elliptical Movements"The Fall of America Journals—which contain a wealth of facsimile pages and photographs in addition to the poet’s jottings—cement Ginsberg’s status as a prophetic bard as well as both a historian and protector of democracy."—Rain Taxi Review of Books "A fascinating look at the things that were on Ginsberg's mind under a wide variety of conditions."—Gay & Lesbian Review "Schumacher's footnotes and occasional contextual explanations are vital, as is his sorting out of nonessential material. Schumacher's greatest contribution may be rendering the handwriting into readable print."—CHOICE"The Fall of America Journals is a fascinating look into the daily life and creative processes of a major American literary figure."—ALH Online ReviewTable of ContentsContentsEditor’s IntroductionA Note on Editing Allen GinsbergAcknowledgmentsThe Fall of America Journals1965196619671968196919701971Postscript: Denver to Montana, 1972Appendix A: Allen Ginsberg’s Descriptive Note Ending The Fall of AmericaAppendix B: Acceptance Speech for 1973 National Book Award for The Fall of AmericaSelect Bibliography by and About Allen Ginsberg
£999.99
The University of Alabama Press The Selected Letters of Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Book SynopsisCharlotte Perkins Gilman has reemerged as a major American literary figure, as evidenced by the republication of many of her stories and novels and an explosion of scholarship on her. This title presents a collection of letters that provides insights into her character through her own words.
£47.60
Wesleyan University Press The Selected Letters of John Cage
Book SynopsisLetters of an avant-garde icon available to the public for the first time
£29.50
Ohio University Press Survival On a Westward Trek 18581859
Book SynopsisWhen gold was discovered in the Fraser River country of British Columbia in the 1850s, St. Paul, Minnesota became the departure point for the plunge westward, as was St. Louis for the American gold rushes. Minnesotans soon caught the fever. Nine young men set out in July of 1858 for the goldfields of British Columbia.Trade Review“The scholarly editing of the ‘overlanders’ journal of John W. Jones by Dwight L. Smith…has provided for the student of Western history a classic in his new book, Survival on a Westward Trek: 1858-1859.” * Journal of the West *“Jones’ journal, with skillful editing by Smith, is an excellent primary source for overland travel in the 1858-1859 period…Jones’ work gives an excellent picture of this quest. Youthful and zestful enthusiasm and vitality — and even ignorance — come through in this journal, making it an enjoyable and worthwhile demonstration of the triumph of the human spirit.” * Overland Journal *
£999.99
MJ - Ohio University Press The Collected Letters of George Gissing Volume 2
Book SynopsisFor many years, the only Gissing letters available to the public were those in the modest selection of letters to his family published in 1927.
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MJ - Ohio University Press The Collected Letters of George Gissing Volume 3
Book SynopsisFor many years, the only Gissing letters available to the public were those in the modest selection of letters to his family published in 1927.
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MJ - Ohio University Press The Collected Letters of George Gissing Volume 6
Book SynopsisGissing’s career, which spanned the period of about 1877 to his death in 1903, was characterized by prodigious output (almost a novel a year in the early days), modest recognition, and modest income. He wrote of poverty, socialism, class differences, social reform, and later on, about the problems of women and industrialization.
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Ohio University Press Amy Levy
Book SynopsisAfter a century of critical neglect, poet and writer Amy Levy is gaining recognition as a literary figure of stature.This definitive biography accompanied by her letters, along with the recent publication of her selected writings, provides a critical appreciation of Levy's importance in her own time and in ours.As an educated Jewish woman with homoerotic desires, Levy felt the strain of combating the structures of British society in the 1880s, the decade in which she built her career and moved in London's literary and bohemian circles. Unwilling to cut herself off from her Jewish background, she had the additional burden of attempting to bridge the gap between communities.In Amy Levy: Her Life and Letters Linda Hunt Beckman examines Levy's writings and other cultural documents for insight into her emotional and intellectual life. This groundbreaking study introduces us to a woman well deserving of a place in literary and cultural history.Trade ReviewThis is a seminal study, offering sensitive and informed interpretation of a witty, troubled, gifted, ironic, and singular young woman negotiating the troubled waters of her time. Beckmans volume is recommended for upper-division undergraduates through professionals and for general readers."Because of Linda K. Hughes, readers can gain insight into the life and work of an accomplished poet, journalist, and editor, as well as begin to understand the pressures on women who dared (and still dare) to defy social convention. In addition Hughes includes numerous photographs of Watson and her circle, illustrations from books and journals of the time, and excerpts and commentary from her works as well as two complete poems in Appendixes.” * The Latchkey: Journal of New Woman Studies *
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Ohio University Press The Collected Letters of Henry Northrup Castle
Book SynopsisCastle's correspondence with family members and with George Herbert Mead one of America's most influential philosophers and his best friend at Oberlin Collegereveals many of the intellectual, economic, and cultural forces that shaped American thought.Trade Review“Alfred L. Castle deserves great credit for making possible the republication of these letters and for writing an elegant introduction in which he clearly outlines their historical significance.”“At Oberlin, George Mead and Henry Castle’s friendship grew from their shared love of learning and insatiable curiosity. As undergraduates, they read, studied, discussed, wrote, and developed a driving scholarly ambition. They learned to cherish the life of the mind, to think and reason independently, to teach themselves and others, and to accept responsibility for improving society Through their thinking, teaching, and writing they passed those values on to generations of young people.” * From the Foreword *
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University of Missouri Press Dear Helen
Book SynopsisDepicts World War II - from its buildup to its aftermath - from the perspective of an average London citizen. This work features accounts of the Blitz and wartime deprivations, then of the postwar austerity programs, in passages that interweave daily terror with talk about theater, clothes, and family outings.
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University of Missouri Press A Civilian in Lawtons 1899 Philippine Campaign
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University of Missouri Press George Washington Carver
Book SynopsisGeorge Washington Carver (1864-1943) is best known for developing new uses for agricultural crops and teaching methods of soil improvement to southern farmers. This annotated selection of his letters and other writings from the collections at the Tuskegee Institute and the George Washington Carver National Monument in Diamond, Missouri, reveals the forces that shaped his creative genius.Trade ReviewKremer’s background and transitional comments, along with Carver’s writings, succeed in bringing Carver to life; helping readers to encounter, empathize with, and appreciate this complex, often contradictory man."" - The Journal of Southern History, for the first edition
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University of Missouri Press Humanistic Letters
Book SynopsisIrving Babbitt (1865-1933) and Paul Elmer More (1864-1937) were the leading lights of the New Humanism, a consequential movement of literary and social criticism in America. This volume provides for the first time the extant correspondence of Babbitt and More, which gets to the heart of their intellectual project.Trade Review“The New Humanism, an early 20th century intellectual movement led by Irving Babbit, ‘the Buddha of Harvard,’ and Paul More, ‘the hermit of Princeton,’ has been largely forgotten. But Eric Adler's erudite exegesis of their correspondence demonstrates its timeless relevance given that (in Babbit's words) ‘man is in danger of being deprived of every scrap and vestige of his humanity by this working together of romanticism and science.’”—Walter A. McDougall, University of Pennsylvania, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian“New Humanism was one of the most consequential movements of the last century. At long last we now have the literary record of letters between its two principal figures, Irving Babbitt and Paul Elmer More. Eric Adler’s Humanistic Letters is a much-needed window into two highly creative minds at work enlivening tradition and reinvigorating first principles against the dominant currents of their age, and ours. It’s an American cultural treasure.”— Jeffrey O. Nelson, The Russell Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal, Publisher and Editor-at-Large of The University Bookman“Irving Babbitt and Paul Elmer More were two of the most profound American thinkers in the twentieth century. They challenged the Zeitgeist and were denied the reputation that they deserved, but an expanding literature testifies to their enduring and now growing influence. Although their letters to each other are numerous, readable, and very illuminating, nobody has published them--until this moment. Eric Adler's edition was worth the wait. It is a model of its kind. It has a lengthy, very informative and insightful introduction, a chronology of the two thinkers, biographies of figures relevant to the correspondence, an elaborate bibliography, and very helpful notes to the letters. Scholars and others will treasure this meticulously wrought and intellectually stimulating volume.”—Claes G. Ryn, author of Will, Imagination and Reason: Babbitt, Croce and the Problem of Reality
£999.99
Michigan State University Press Other Eighteenth Century Msu Edition English
Book SynopsisThis anthology of the works of 22 women authors aims to reclaim the tradition of women's writing in England during the 18th-century, and helps to restore this tradition to its rightful place in the present-day canon of late 17th- and 18th-century English literature.
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WW Norton & Co Diaries
Book SynopsisA New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice Selection A major literary event—the long-awaited publication of George Orwell's diaries, chronicling the events that inspired his greatest works.Trade Review"Starred review. [A] lushly annotated edition of Orwell’s diaries from 1931 to 1949…. Born Eric Arthur Blair, Orwell, as these diaries reveal, lived a varied and even dichotomized life. …Editor Davison (English/De Montfort Univ.) supplies necessary contextual information and footnotes generously, but stays in the shadows and allows us to truly enjoy Orwell’s impressive chronicles." -- Kirkus Reviews"Read with care, George Orwell’s diaries, from the years 1931 to 1949, can greatly enrich our understanding of how Orwell transmuted the raw material of everyday experience into some of his best-known novels and polemics. They furnish us with a more intimate picture of a man who, committed to the struggles of the mechanized and “modern” world, was also drawn by the rhythms of the wild, the rural, and the remote." -- Christopher Hitchens - Vanity Fair"One cannot help but be struck by the degree to which [Orwell] became, in Henry James’s words, one of those upon whom nothing was lost. By declining to lie, even as far as possible to himself, and by his determination to seek elusive but verifiable truth, he showed how much can be accomplished by an individual who unites the qualities of intellectual honesty and moral courage." -- Christopher Hitchens, from the Introduction of Diaries"Among the vivifying things about his Diaries, issued now in one volume for the first time, is how they restore some first-person flesh and blood to what can seem like his disembodied head. What’s more, they show Orwell to be nearly Jeffersonian in his combined passion for politics and for the natural world, not merely for fishing but also for the enlightened and fervent cultivation of vegetables, fruit trees, animals and flowers… These diaries show him with his hands covered in fresh dirt, hard at work, in sync with the seasons, curious about everything under the sun, tending to what he needed and grateful for beauty as well as sustenance. They present a man in full." -- Dwight Garner - New York Times"Never before published in the United States, this wonderfully annotated collection of George Orwell’s diaries from 1931 to 1949 is sure to fascinate any fan of his work. From his down and out years to his stint working at the BBC during WWII (“something halfway between a girls’ school and a lunatic asylum…. Our radio strategy is even more hopeless than our military strategy.”), the reader can catch a glimpse of this essential English writer’s internal life, and watch the ideas that became Animal Farm and 1984 bloom, percolate, and grow." -- Emily Temple - Flavorpill"Reading the Diaries end-to-end in a single volume offers us a different take on Orwell: less as a thinker, or a figure of political conscience, than as a complex and dimensional human being." -- David Ulin - Los Angeles Times"Orwell’s achievement grew out of seemingly modest virtues: decency; good, hard sense; and clean, clear prose. Yet they added up to something monumental… The diaries as a whole do exactly what you would expect: They confirm his greatness." -- Craig Seligman - Bloomberg.com"Orwell lived in London during most of World War II, including during the Battle of Britain. Entries during this period have the author’s defining features on display, including unimpeachable intellectual honesty, concern about the degradation of truth, physical courage, and unpretentious writing… All the traits that made Orwell so great can be found in the Diaries." -- Jordan Michael Smith - Christian Science Monitor"A window into the way Orwell's mind worked." -- Barry Gewen - New York Times Book Review, Front page"Reading these diaries leaves one, as always when encountering the words of George Orwell, with a confirmed admiration for the sterling qualities that have made him a benchmark for integrity and a lodestar for writers and thinkers across the ideological spectrum. Embedded in the DNA of his writing is that austere, penetrating analytical ability, averse to cant or any form of hypocrisy and pretension, unsparing of everything and everyone—especially himself. He simply can't help being that way: Once pen is put to paper, or fingers to typewriter, those qualities appear, second nature to his writing, even the most casual." -- Martin Rubin - San Francisco Chronicle"...[T]he diaries as a whole do exactly what you would expect: They confirm his greatness." -- Craig Seligman - Newsday"We should celebrate the publication of Orwell’s diaries. The publication of personal texts by other authors might smack of cheap opportunism, purely a money-making ploy. But I think publishers got it right with Orwell." -- Scott Beauchamp - Book Riot"How appropriate that the political moralist George Orwell (1903-50) should be published by a company called Liveright! Orwell, who despised every form of careerism, instinctively gravitated to the kind of quiet rural existence that we associate with ancient Greek philosophers or Anglican clergyman of the 18th century. Certainly, these diaries reveal that the author of Animal Farm was happiest cultivating his garden, observing the weather, enjoying the beauty of spring flowers and watching over the health of his hens." -- Michael Dirda - Washington Post"It is a blessing, then, to now have the opportunity to read his Diaries, edited meticulously by Peter Davison, who as the editor of the twenty volumes of Orwell's Complete Works has an unequaled knowledge of the material… They throw a revealing light on Orwell the thinker, and offer welcome stimulus to revisit the books and essays in which that mind left its lasting imprint." -- Brooke Allen - Barnes and Noble Review"Edited with exemplary skill and grace by Peter Davison." -- William H. Gass - Harper's
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Bauhan Pub Dear Mary Letters Home from the 10th Mountain
Book SynopsisLetters from WWII service in Italy to a beloved wife back home
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University of Iowa Press LETTERS RUDYARD KIPLING VOL 6 193136 06 Letters of Rudyard Kipling
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ICS Publications,U.S. General Correspondence 18771890 v 1 Letters of St
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International Polar Institute Press Journals in Greenland
Book SynopsisA firsthand account of previously almost inaccessible eastern Greenland
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Alfred A. Knopf A Whole World Letters from James Merrill
Book SynopsisA NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR • The selected correspondence of the brilliant poet, one of the twentieth century's last great letter writers.I don't keep a journal, not after the first week, James Merrill asserted in a letter while on a trip around the world. Letters have got to bear all the burden. A vivacious correspondent, whether abroad, where avid curiosity and fond memory frequently took him, or at home, he wrote eagerly and often, to family and lifelong friends, American and Greek lovers, confidants in literature and art about everything that mattered—aesthetics, opera and painting, housekeeping and cooking, the comedy of social life, the mysteries of the Ouija board and the spirit world, and psychological and moral dilemmas—in funny, dashing, unrevised missives, composed to entertain himself as well as his recipients. On a personal nemesis: the ambivalence I live with. It worries me less and less. It becomes th
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Random House USA Inc Disaster Falls A Family Story
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Random House USA Inc Collected Nonfiction of Mark Twain Volume 1
Book SynopsisThe first of two hardcover volumes collecting the major nonfiction by the father of American literature: more than 150 letters, essays, and speeches selected to showcase the dazzling range of his interests and passions. An Everyman's Library Original. Whether crossing the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans or blazing through Europe and the Americas, Twain turned his trademark wit, candor, and acerbic sarcasm on all his experiences. We can trace his personal evolution through his ambition-filled missives home to Missouri after moving out West to be a fledgling reporter, his raucous stories of navigating a steamboat down the Mississippi, his romantic-turned-elegiac sentiments for his wife, Livy, and, later in life, his darker reflections on the ills of society. Often too outrageous not to be true, Twain’s real-life adventures added to his enduring legend, while his clear-eyed view of humanity has provided an unmatched blend of entertainment and moral integrity for generations of readers.
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Random House USA Inc The Diary of Samuel Pepys
Book SynopsisA newly edited selection from the most famous, colorful, and vivid diarist in the English language--in the most accessible, uncensored, and clearly annotated edition available.Though he rose to become the most powerful administrator in King Charles II's navy, when Samuel Pepys began writing his secret journal in 1660 he was just a young clerk living in London. Over the next nine years, he became eyewitness to some of the most significant events in seventeenth-century English history, among them, the Restoration, the Great Plague of London in 1665, and the Great Fire of London in 1666. Pepys's diary gives vivid descriptions of spectacular events, but much of the richness of the work lies in the details it provides about the minor dramas of daily life. While Pepys was keen to hear the king's views, he was also always ready to talk with a soldier, a housekeeper, or a child rag-picker. He records with searing frankness his tumultuous personal life, including his marriage, in
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Cambridge University Press The Correspondence of G. E. Morrison 1912 1920
Book SynopsisOriginally published in 1978, this is the second of two volumes of the selected letters of George Ernest Morrison, The Times correspondent in China in the late Imperial and early Republican period. Few people were in a better position to observe and comment on the events of those years.Table of ContentsPreface; Map; 1. August 1912–September 1912; 2. October 1912–March 1913; 3. March 1913–July 1913; 4. December 1914–August 1915; 5. August 1915–June 1916; 6. June 1916–June 1917; 7. June 1917–November 1918; 8. November 1918–May 1920; 9. June 1920–December 1920; Glossary; Index.
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Cambridge University Press The Letters of Oliver Goldsmith
Book SynopsisThis is the first modern scholarly edition of the letters of Oliver Goldsmith (17281774), one of the major literary figures of the eighteenth century. Containing extensive introductory and contextual material, this volume is essential for those interested in Goldsmith and his circle, including Samuel Johnson and David Garrick.
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Cambridge University Press The Private Correspondence of Sir Benjamin Keene KB
Book SynopsisSir Benjamin Keene (1697â1757) was the most eminent of the British diplomats sent as Ambassador to Spain in the eighteenth century. This book, originally published in 1933, reproduces the text of his personal correspondence from 1730 to his death. The letters cover a wide variety of subjects, both diplomatic and more intimate, and will be of value to anyone with an interest in British relations with Spain up to the outbreak of the Seven Years' War.Table of ContentsPreface; Introduction; 1. Miscellaneous letters to Keene, 1730–56; 2. Letters from Keene to Castres and others, written in England and from Lisbon, 1740–8; 3. Letters from Keene to Castres and others, written from Spain, 1749–57; Appendix A. Keene's last months; Appendix B. Letters from Ruvigny de Cosne to the Bishop of Chester on Sir Benjamin's death and the transport of his body to England; Appendix C. Sir Benjamin Keene's Will; Appendix D. Letters from the Bishop of Chester to the Duke of Newcastle; Appendix E. Two letters from Lord Royston to the Bishop of Chester; Index.
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Cambridge University Press The Diary of John Milward
Book SynopsisOriginally published in 1938, this book presents the diary of John Milward (15991670), Member of Parliament for Derbyshire from 1665 to 1670. Covering the period September 1666 to May 1668, the diary is reproduced as close to its manuscript form as possible. A bibliography, appendices and detailed editorial introduction are also incorporated.Table of ContentsThe Milwards of Derbyshire; Introduction; Bibliography of Parliamentary records 1666–8, with the abbreviations used in the lists and notes; Parliamentary business, 1666–8, and chronological guide to the Diary; Calendar for the period covered by the Diary; Alphabetical check-list of speakers and other persons mentioned in the Diary; Text of the Diary, September, 1666 to May, 1668; Appendix 1. Speeches by Sir John Holland, 1666–8; Appendix 2. Diary for October and November, 1667; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Shorthand Letters of Samuel Pepys
Book SynopsisOriginally published in 1933, this book presents the content of 56 shorthand, or partly shorthand, letters by Samuel Pepys, transcribed in full and edited by Edwin Chappell. The letters were derived from a volume entitled S. Pepys' Official Correspondence 16621679, which came into the possession of the National Maritime Museum in 1931.Table of ContentsIntroduction; List of works quoted; Letters and memoranda; Appendix; Index.
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Cambridge University Press The Letters of John Keats 18141821 Volume II Volume 2 1819 1821 1814 1821
Book SynopsisOriginally published in 1958, this book forms the second part of a two-volume edition of Keats's letters, covering the period from 1819 to 1821. Several letters and papers not previously contained in English editions of the correspondence are included, and advances in the understanding of the dating and arrangement of the letters are reflected. Detailed editorial notes are provided throughout. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in Keats's letters and the development of Keats scholarship.Table of ContentsLetters and papers 1819–21; Index of correspondents and documents; General index.
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Cambridge University Press The Letters of John Keats
Book SynopsisThis 1895 centenary collection of 214 'racy, lively, inimitably good-tempered' letters by the Romantic poet John Keats (17951821) to his family, friends and fiancée was edited by the Harry Buxton Forman (18421917). Forman included previously unpublished correspondence, aiming to 'complete the picture of the true Keats'.Table of ContentsPreface; Letters I-CCXIV (1816–20); First lines of poems scattered throughout the letters.
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