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Cambridge University Press The Dispatches and Letters of Vice Admiral Lord
Book SynopsisFirst published between 1844 and 1846, this seven-volume collection of letters documents the celebrated naval career of Lord Nelson in his own words. Volume 4 covers Nelson's career from September 1799 to December 1801, when he was serving first in Naples and Palermo, and then in the Baltic.Table of ContentsPreface; Letters September 1799–December 1801; Appendix.
£41.79
Cambridge University Press Memoir of Leonard Horner F.R.S. F.G.S. Volume 1
Book SynopsisThis selection from the correspondence of Leonard Horner (17851864), a prominent geologist, educator and factory inspector, was published by his daughter in 1890. It provides a vivid picture of this eminent reformer. Volume 1 covers Horner's life to 1838 including his election to the Royal Society.Table of Contents1. 1785-1811. Birth and parentage; 2. 1812–1813. Politics; 3. 1814. Journal in Holland; 4. 1815–October, 1816. Francis Horner's success in Parliament; 5. October, 1816–1817. Paris; 6. 1818–1819. Lansdowne House; 7. 1820–1823. Dr. Parr; 8. 1824–1826. Dr Parr; 9. 1827–1829. London; 10. 1830–1831. Letters from Mr. Hallam; 11. 1832–1833. Letter from Mr. Cockburn; 12. 1834–1835. Work among the factories; 13. 1837–1838. Lansdowne House; 14. 1838. Visit to Patricroft.
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Cambridge University Press Memoir of Leonard Horner F.R.S. F.G.S.
Book SynopsisThis selection from the correspondence of Leonard Horner (17851864), a prominent geologist, educator and factory inspector, was published in 1890. It provides a vivid picture of this eminent reformer. Volume 2 covers 18391864, including Horner's work for the Geological Society and the birth of his grandson.Table of Contents1. 1839-1840. Visit to Mr. Samuel Greg; 2. 1841. Visit to Edinburgh; 3. 1842-1843. Geological Society; 4. 1844–1845. Factory Act; 5. 1846. Peace with America; 6. 1847–1848. Geological Society; 7. 1849–1850. Mr. Jameson; 8. 1851. Dean of Hereford; 9. 1852–1853. Balbo's Life of Dante; 10. 1854. Anniversary of Geological Society; 11. 1855–1856. Life of Baron Stein; 12. 1857–1860. Bishop of Rupert's Land; 13. 1861. Anniversary Geological Address; 14. 1862–1864. The Queen's sorrow; Index.
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Cambridge University Press My Opposition
Book SynopsisThis is a truly unique account of Nazi Germany at war and of one man''s struggle against totalitarianism. A mid-level official in a provincial town, Friedrich Kellner kept a secret diary from 1939 to 1945, risking his life to record Germany''s path to dictatorship and genocide, and to protest his countrymen''s complicity in the regime''s brutalities. Just one month into the war he notes how soldiers on leave spoke openly about the extermination of the Jews and the murder of POWs, while he also documents the Gestapo''s merciless rule at home from euthanasia campaigns against the handicapped and mentally ill to the execution of anyone found listening to foreign broadcasts. This essential testimony of everyday life under the Third Reich is accompanied by a foreword by Alan Steinweis and the remarkable story of how the diary was brought to light by Robert Scott Kellner, Friedrich''s grandson.Trade Review'What is it like to be an isolated democrat in a highly popular dicatorship? This wartime diary will tell you. Just how this keenly observed book came to be published is an extraordinary story for itself. And Friedrich Kellner's day-to-day encounters with enthusiastic, gullible Hitler supporters in his hometown reveal a morally steadfast, but basically lonely German citizen whose perspective is bracing, incisive, and still pertinent to our times.' Peter Fritzsche, University of Illinois'An important piece of historical literature … this book has vital things to say not just about the history of the war but what it was to be a decent human being and yet be forced to live through terrible times.' Laurence Rees, Daily Telegraph'A remarkable testament … Reading it is a reminder that not all Germans under the Third Reich were Nazis; some at least managed to retain a sense of decency and human values.' Richard J. Evans, Guardian'Deftly compiled and expertly edited by Robert Scott Kellner, My Opposition: The Diary of Friedrich Kellner – A German against the Third Reich is a truly unique and impressively informative account of Nazi Germany at war and of one man's struggle against totalitarianism. An absolutely essential and unreservedly recommended addition to both community and academic library World War II History collections and supplemental studies reading lists …' Micah Andrew, Midwest Book Review'[Kellner] berates Germans for their blind gullibility, incorporating newspaper propaganda and detailing daily life, his diary like someone to confide in: its existence, an act of stirring, quiet defiance.' Steven Carroll, Sydney Morning Herald'Reveals to devastating effect just how very much the average German citizen did know – even near the beginning of the Second World War – about Hitler's genocidal madness.' Jane Warren, Daily Express'Kellner's diary is a necessary cornerstone addition to the vast WWII library.' David Hendricks, San Antonio Express-News'Should My Opposition be on everyone's reading list, even if uncomfortable? Yes!' Jerry Klinger, The San Diego Jewish News'What is extraordinary is how well-informed Kellner is about geography in general and the detail of the progress of the war, in both Europe and Asia, in particular.' Jill Stephenson, European History QuarterlyTable of ContentsForeword Alan E. Steinweis; Preface; Biographical narrative; About the translation; Pre-war writings; The diary: 1939; 1940; 1941; 1942; 1943; 1944; 1945.
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Cambridge University Press John Cage and Peter Yates
Book SynopsisThe correspondence between composer John Cage and Peter Yates represents the third and final part of Cage''s most significant exchanges of letters, following those with Pierre Boulez and with David Tudor. Martin Iddon''s book is the first volume to collect the complete extant correspondence with his critical friend, thus completing the ''trilogy'' of Cage correspondence published by Cambridge. By bringing together more than 100 letters, beginning in 1940 and continuing until 1971, Iddon reveals the dialogue within which many of Cage''s ideas were first forged and informed, with particular focus on his developing attitudes to music criticism and aesthetics. The correspondence with Yates represents precisely, in alignment with Cage''s fastidious neatness, the part of his letter writing in which he engages most directly with the last part of his famous tricolon, ''composing''s one thing, performing''s another, listening''s a third''.Trade Review'This is the third book that Martin Iddon has contributed to Arnold Whittall's influential series at Cambridge University Press … Iddon is a footnote virtuoso where every individual mentioned is given full details - helpfully on the page - and there are many examples of ingenious investigation.' Peter Dickinson, Musical OpinionTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. John Cage to Peter Yates, undated [1940?]; 2. John Cage to Peter Yates, 1940; 3. John Cage to Peter Yates, 1941; 4. John Cage to Peter Yates, 1941; John Cage, 'Organized Sound' draft, 1941; Peter Yates, 'Organized Sound,' California Arts and Architecture (1941); 5. John Cage to Peter Yates, undated [1941]; 6. John Cage to Peter Yates, undated [ca. 1947]; 7. John Cage to Peter Yates, undated [ca. 1947]; 8. John Cage to Peter Yates, undated [ca. September 1948]; Peter Yates, 'Music,' Arts and Architecture (1948); 9. John Cage to Peter Yates, undated [ca. 1948; Peter Yates, 'Music,' Arts and Architecture (1948); Peter Yates, 'Music,' Arts and Architecture (1948); 10. John Cage to Peter Yates, undated [ca. 1948]; 11. John Cage to Peter Yates, undated [ca. 1948]; 12. John Cage to Peter Yates, undated [early 1949]; Peter Yates, 'Music,' Arts and Architecture (1949); 13. Peter Yates to John Cage, 1953; Peter Yates, 'Music,' Arts and Architecture (1953); 14. John Cage to Peter Yates, 1953; 15. Peter Yates to John Cage, 1953; Peter Yates, 'Pierre Boulez,' Arts and Architecture (1957); Peter Yates, 'A Collage of American Composers - Part 3,' Arts and Architecture (1959); Peter Yates, 'A Collage of American Composers - Part 4,' Arts and Architecture (1959); 16. Peter Yates to John Cage, 1959; 17. John Cage to Peter Yates, 1959; 18. Peter Yates to John Cage, 1959; 19. Peter Yates to John Cage, 1959; Peter Yates, 'Virgil Thomson and Horatio Parker,' Arts and Architecture (1959); 20. Peter Yates to John Cage, 1959; 21. Peter Yates to John Cage, 1959; 22. John Cage to Peter Yates, 1959; 23. Peter Yates to John Cage, 1960; 24. Peter Yates to John Cage, 1960; 25. John Cage to Peter Yates, undated [ca. 1960]; Peter Yates, 'Two Albums by John Cage - Part 1,' Arts and Architecture (1960); 26. Peter Yates to John Cage, 1960; 27. John Cage to Peter Yates, 1960; 28. Peter Yates to John Cage, 1960; Peter Yates, 'Two Albums by John Cage - Part 2,' Arts and Architecture (1960); 29. John Cage to Peter Yates, 1960; 30. Peter Yates to John Cage, 1960; 31. John Cage to Peter Yates, 1960; 32. Peter Yates to John Cage, 1960; 33. Peter Yates to John Cage, 1960; 34. John Cage to Peter Yates, 1960; 35. Peter Yates to John Cage, 1960; 36. John Cage to Peter Yates, 1960; 37. John Cage to Peter Yates, 1960; 38. Peter Yates to John Cage, 1960; 39. John Cage to Peter Yates, 1960; Peter Yates, 'Monday Mad on Tuesday,' Arts and Architecture (1960); Peter Yates, 'Music,' Arts and Architecture (1960); 40. John Cage to Peter Yates, 1961; 41. Peter Yates to John Cage, 1961; Peter Yates, 'American Experimental Tradition,' unpublished manuscript [ca. 1961]; 42. John Cage to Peter Yates, 1961; 43. John Cage to Peter Yates, 1961; 44. John Cage to Peter Yates, undated [1961]; 45. John Cage to Peter Yates, 1961; 46. John Cage to Peter Yates, 1961; 47. Peter Yates to John Cage, 1961; 48. John Cage to Peter Yates, 1961; 49. Peter Yates to John Cage, 1961; Peter Yates and John Whitney, 'Notes for Music,' unpublished manuscript [1961]; Peter Yates, 'Sound,' manuscript [1961]; 50. John Cage to Peter Yates, 1961; 51. Peter Yates to John Cage, 1961; 52. Peter Yates to John Cage, 1961; Peter Yates, 'A Lost Center,' manuscript [1961]; 53. John Cage to Peter Yates, 1961; 54. John Cage to Peter Yates, 1961; Peter Yates, 'A General Report,' Arts and Architecture (1962); 55. John Cage to Peter Yates, 1962; 56. John Cage to Peter Yates, 1962; Peter Yates, 'Silence by John Cage,' Arts and Architecture (1962); Peter Yates, review of John Cage, Silence, Notes: the Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association (1962); Peter Yates, 'More Than Time,' Arts and Architecture (1962); Peter Yates, 'John Cage's Weekend in Los Angeles,' Arts and Architecture (1962); 57. John Cage to Frances and Peter Yates, 1962; Peter Yates, 'The American Artist,' manuscript written for the
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Amberley Publishing Nursing Churchill
Book SynopsisNew in B-format paperback - A fresh perspective on Churchill and life in wartime by the nurse charged with looking after the Prime Minister.Trade Review'These letters are of genuine historical importance to anyone interested in Churchill and the Second World War. They provide a fascinating, and occasionally moving, account of wartime Britain. Supported by the fine scholarship of the author, this book reminds us of the good-nature and humanity of the Greatest Briton, even while he was under unimaginable stress and a life-threatening illness. I heartily recommend it.' -- Andrew Roberts, author of Churchill: Walking with Destiny'A very valuable and unique insight.' -- Prime Minister Boris Johnson, author of The Churchill Factor'A top quality, outstanding read, this well written book is historically accurate and enhanced by unique photographs.' -- Professor Allister Vale, co-author of Winston Churchill's Illnesses 1886-1965'This book provides a fascinating and intimate account of life in a leading London hospital at the height of the Second World War, including the wedding of our own parents. A thoroughly absorbing read.' -- David Suchet (actor) and John Suchet (former ITN News anchor, Classic FM presenter)
£999.99
Pen & Sword Books Ltd Henry Harfords Zulu War Journal
Book Synopsis''Highly recommended, not only for the remarkable story itself but also the quality of its research, its presentation and readability.'' Adrian Greaves''Charlie Harford''s entertaining memoirs are among the most often quoted sources for the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879, but a scholarly edition is long overdue. Professor Laband''s thoroughly annotated volume fills this gap admirably, and will be an invaluable addition to any Zulu War library.'' Chris PeersHenry Harford was a young officer in the British Army and the adjutant of his own regiment when tensions were rising between the British colonial government in Natal and the independent Zulu kingdom in 1878. In the face of these tensions, Harford volunteered for temporary special service and first served as a Lieutenant in the Natal Native Contingent before going on to resume his commission and adjutancy of his regiment in Natal during the 1879 Anglo-Zulu War. The Zulu War Journal tells the true story of his experience during this time, pr
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Pen & Sword Books Ltd A Spitfire Named Connie
Book SynopsisThis is the story of a Spitfire pilot, Robbie Robertson, who was shot down and badly injured, having achieved Ace status, during the fighting in North Africa
£32.47
Abrams Letters from Hollywood
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis is, quite simply, one of the finest books I’ve ever read about Hollywood. * Leonard Maltin *
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Johns Hopkins University Press The Revolutionary War Lives and Letters of Lucy
Book SynopsisCombining original epistles with Hamilton's introductory essays, The Revolutionary War Lives and Letters of Lucy and Henry Knox offers important insights into how this relatable and highly individual couple overcame the war's challenges.Trade ReviewThe Revolutionary War Lives and Letters of Lucy and Henry Knox is an extraordinary primary source of military movements and life, social customs, economic changes and hardships, and domestic life during the American Revolution . . . Not only will this rich historical record aid researchers, but also historical fiction authors looking to capture the flavor of language and society during this time.—Journal of the American RevolutionI am glad to recommend this book. I am sure it will prove valuable for others who study the American Revolution and a pleasurable read for all who like firsthand accounts of those who have lived in the past.—WordpressTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1. Courtship and Marriage (1773-1775), "...the most perfect disinterested love" Chapter 2. The Excitement of War (April 1775-June 1776), "...Citizens of the World" Chapter 3. The Perils of War (July 1776-December 1777) Part I. The New York-New Jersey Campaign of 1776-1777, "...the Horrid Scenes of War...:" Part II. The Philadelphia Campaign of 1777: "...there is such a thing as equal Command" Chapter 4. Enduring the War (1778-1783), "swords into ploughs[hares]" Afterwards (1784-1824)
£28.33
Amberley Publishing Through Spain with Wellington
Book SynopsisWith background information and commentary provided by expert Adrian Greenwood, meticulously footnoted, this is a worthy addition to the literature of the Napoleonic Wars.Trade Review‘One of the most revealing first-hand accounts of life in Wellington’s army to be discovered for many years.’ -- Rory Muir, author of Wellington
£23.94
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Wittgensteins Family Letters
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewAnyone interested in the period, the Wittgenstein family, or the lost art of letter writing will find this a delightful read. Summing Up: Essential. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty; general readers. * CHOICE *This meticulously edited and superbly translated volume of letters written between 1908 and weeks before Ludwig's death in 1951 swings seamlessly between mundane trivialities and profound insights ... The letters offer incredible insight into Wittgenstein. * Times Higher Education *The letters Wittgenstein exchanged with his siblings and other family members make fascinating reading for the light they shed on his cultural background, particularly the central role that music played in his life. Here, they are presented in a beautiful edition, superbly translated and edited. * Ray Monk, author of Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius *There are not many families of the twentieth century as fascinating as the Wittgensteins. This is a valuable and often moving collection. The letters reveal how tight the bonds between family members were – but they also expose the tensions, that led ultimately to an irreparable split. * David Edmonds, co-author of Wittgenstein’s Poker *This beautifully illustrated and edited translation of Wittgenstein's correspondence with his family will appeal to anyone interested in learning more about his life or in exploring connections between his life and work. The present edition includes a new introduction, family tree, an annotated list of people and places and informative footnotes, all of which will be invaluable to readers. * David G. Stern, Professor of Philosophy, University of Iowa, USA *Wittgenstein fans will want this newly translated, intimate look over 40 odd years into the on-going soap opera that characterized the Wittgenstein family, ranging from personal hurts to life-or-death decisions; ranging from aesthetic, mainly musical, judgments to assessments of the obligations of friendship and family relations. It includes some three dozen newly published letters between Ludwig and his brother Paul. * James C. Klagge, Professor of Philosophy, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA and editor of Wittgenstein: Biography and Philosophy (2001) *The publication of this, the first English translation of the correspondence between Ludwig Wittgenstein and family—specifically, with his siblings Hermine, Margarete, Helene, and Paul—is an important event. As Brian McGuinness says in his incisive introduction, “The Wittgenstein’s were a family that might well have figured in one of the nineteenth century sagas they read.” A close but often contentious family, the siblings, especially Ludwig’s elder sister Hermine, wrote long and detailed letters to their famous brother; he responded with unusual candor –and often severity-- and so we learn a great deal about the Wittgenstein way of doing things—which was by no means always Ludwig’s way. The letters of the World War II years are especially interesting. This excellent translation by Peter Winslow, thoroughly annotated and copiously illustrated, is a real page-turner. * Marjorie Perloff, Sadie Dernham Patek Professor of Humanities, Emerita, Stanford University, Author of Wittgenstein’s Ladder *What does the correspondence have to offer beyond specialist interest? One answer, surprisingly, is pleasure. The siblings - 'rather hard and prickly elements', Ludwig calls them - slowly develop their own characteristics in the reader's mind ... The letters also offer a startling insight into what it meant to be a wealthy Viennese family in the early 20th century. * Literary Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction, Brian McGuinness Acknowledgements Ludwig’s Early Letters 1908 The War Years August 1914–April 1918 Captivity November 1918–September 1919 The Tractatus and the elementary school years October 1920–March 1926 A Viennese intermezzo a letter from late 1928? Cambridge January 1929–February 1938 121 The Anschluss and World War Two March 1938–May 1945 172 Ludwig’s last letters January 1946–April 1951
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Sourcebooks, Inc Here I Go
Book SynopsisA must-have guided travel journal for kids embarking on any adventure! With awesome travel activities, fun journaling prompts, and plenty of space to record memories, Here I Go is the perfect summer vacation journal and travel activity book for kids, and can be used for multiple trips!Never forget your adventures with this exciting and engaging guided journal from storycatcher Katie Clemons. Here I Go has everything you need for fun-filled vacations, including:Guided journal prompts: Young travelers will record not only what they see and do, but also write about how they feel about their experiences while travelingall the while crafting a unique keepsake to remember their awesome trips!Travel activities: Scavenger hunts, coloring pages, doodling prompts and more encourage creativity and keep kids engaged during long drives, plane rides, and other down time during their travels.Souvenir space: Make this journal the ultimate memory book by pasting in ticket stubs, postcards, p
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University of Nebraska Press The Complete Letters of Henry James 18841886
Book SynopsisRecipient of the Approved Edition seal from the Modern Language Association's Committee on Scholarly Editions This volume of The Complete Letters of Henry James, 18841886 includes 179 letters, 94 published for the first time, written between November 11, 1884, and December 21, 1885. The letters mark Henry James's ongoing efforts to care for his sister, develop his work, strengthen his professional status, build friendships old and new, and maximize his income. James details work on midcareer novels The Bostonians and The Princess Casamassima as well as on tales that would help to define his career. He reveals his close acquaintance with British politics and politicians. This volume opens with Alice James's arrival in England and concludes with Henry James's plans to leave his flat in Piccadilly for his new address in De Vere Gardens, Kensington.Trade ReviewPraise for earlier volumes in The Complete Letters of Henry James series “Reading [these] edited letters is a delight. The transcriptions allow one to read fluidly rather than haltingly, preserving the rhythm and tone of the original communications together with their content. The explanatory notes do a superb job of contextualizing the letters and identifying references and allusions within them. I could not help but admire the astonishing discernment and scholarship manifested in this volume.”—Sarah Wadsworth, professor of English at Marquette University “Rippling through these letters are the first imaginative stirrings of one of the greatest fiction and travel writers in the language. [James] was also one of the most entertaining—and prolific—correspondents. . . . These are richly enthralling letters.”—Peter Kemp, Sunday Times (London) “This latest volume of the Complete Letters represents, no less than its forebears, an inestimable contribution to readers hitherto obliged to hunt down James’s letters in various selections or scattered archives, and deserves to be greeted with the same jubilant chorus of praise and gratitude.”—Alicia Rix, Times Literary Supplement Table of ContentsThe Complete Letters of Henry James, 18841886, volume 1, contains 179 letters, of which 94 are published for the first time. Each letter is followed by previous publication information or a note that there is no previous publication. Acknowledgments Introduction: “Fastened to London,” by Adrian Poole Symbols and Abbreviations Chronology Errata 1884 November 11 To Catharine Walsh November 13 To Francis Boott November 14 To Mary Smith Mundella November 14 To Grace Norton November 14 To Thomas Sergeant Perry November 15 To Emma Lazarus November 17 To Houghton, Mifflin and Company November 17 To Catharine Walsh November 17 To Sarah Butler Wister November 24 To Catharine Walsh November 29 To Theodore E. Child December 2 To Benjamin Holt Ticknor December 3 To Charles Scribner’s Sons December 3 To Benjamin Holt Ticknor December 4 To William James December 4 To Violet Paget December 5 To Sidney Colvin December 5 To Robert Louis Stevenson December 8 To Grace Norton December 9 To Mary Augusta Arnold Ward December 12 To Thomas Sergeant Perry December 13 To Mary Augusta Arnold Ward December 20 To Benjamin Holt Ticknor December 23 To Catharine Walsh December 24 To Frances Mary Peard December 26 To Sirs December 30 To Thomas Bailey Aldrich December 30 To Theodore E. Child December 31 To Henrietta Reubell 1885 January 1 To Benjamin Holt Ticknor January 2 To William James January 2 To Frederick Macmillan January 3 To Thomas Bailey Aldrich January 7 To Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones January 7 To Frederick Macmillan January 7 To Violet Paget January 8 To William James January 9 To Mary Morton Hartpence Sands c. January 1117 To Mary Morton Hartpence Sands January 20 To Mary Augusta Arnold Ward January 23 To Elizabeth Boott January 23 1885 or 1886 To Bertha Price Lathbury January 24 To Grace Norton c. January 25February 23 To Elizabeth Boott January 25 To Theodore E. Child January 27 To Trübner and Company January 28 To Edmund Gosse January 28 To Frederick Macmillan January 29 To William James January 30 To Benjamin Holt Ticknor February 3 To Mary Anderson February 3 To George Washburn Smalley February 6 To Lady Elizabeth Eberstadt Lewis February 7 To Richard Watson Gilder February 7 To Edmund Gosse February 14 To William James February 15 To William James February 16 To Theodore E. Child February 21 To Thomas Bailey Aldrich February 24 To Elizabeth Boott February 24 To Sir John Forbes Clark February 25 To Edmund Gosse February 26 To Benjamin Holt Ticknor March 3 To Edwin Lawrence Godkin March 4 To Grace Norton March 4 To Mary Morton Hartpence Sands March 9 To Marian “Clover” Hooper Adams March 10 To Mary Smith Mundella March 20 To Lady Louisa Erskine Wolseley March 21 To Grace Norton March 23 To Elizabeth Boott March 23 To Charles Scribner’s Sons April 10 To Lady Elizabeth Eberstadt Lewis April 13 To Ernest Hartley Coleridge April 16 To Edmund Gosse April 17 To Jane Dalzell Finlay Hill April 18 To James Ripley Osgood April 24 To Elizabeth Boott April 26 To Jessie Percy Butler Duncan Phipps April 28 To Houghton, Mifflin and Company April 20 c. June 20 To George Abbot James May 4 To Elizabeth Boott May 5 To Frederick Macmillan May 6 To Pembroke College Fellows May 6 To Laurence Alma-Tadema May 7 To Frederick Macmillan May 9 To Francis Boott May 9 To Grace Norton May 10 To Violet Paget May 12 To Catharine Walsh May 13 To Elizabeth Boott May 13 To Theodore E. Child May 13 To John Milton Hay May 15 To Lucy Lane Clifford May 18 To Catharine Walsh May 23 To William Dean Howells May 25 To Houghton, Mifflin and Company May 27 To Edmund Gosse May 29 To James Russell Lowell May 30 To Theodore E. Child June 2 To Frederick Macmillan June 3 To Thomas Bailey Aldrich June 4 To Emma Lazarus June 5 To Frederick Macmillan June 6 To Janet Hay Lord June 6 To Frances Mary Peard June 6 To Lady Louisa Erskine Wolseley June 8 To Macmillan and Company June 8 To Violet Paget June 15 To Elizabeth Boott June 15 To Lucy Cohen June 15 To Henrietta Reubell June 20 To Frances Rollins Morse June 24 To Anthony John and Mary Smith Mundella June 26 To Benjamin Holt Ticknor June 29 To Laura Mary Octavia Tennant Lyttelton July 1 To Robert de Montesquiou and Edmond de Polignac July 3 To Florence Boughton July 5 To Henrietta Reubell July 13 To Theodore E. Child July 14 To Lady Louisa Erskine Wolseley July 24 To William James July 31 To William James July 31 To Robert Louis Stevenson July 31 To Mary Augusta Arnold Ward August 3 To Elizabeth Boott August 8 To Lady Elizabeth Eberstadt Lewis August 11 To Lawrence Barrett c. August 14 To Jane Dalzell Finlay Hill August 14 To Dr. James John Garth Wilkinson August 15 To Edgar Fawcett August 16 To Thomas Bailey Aldrich August 21 To William James August 21 To Robert de Montesquiou August 23 To Grace Norton August 25 To Frederick Macmillan August 27 To Frederick Macmillan August 27 To Benjamin Holt Ticknor August 28 To Lady Louisa Erskine Wolseley August 30 To Violet Paget August 31 To Ariana Randolph Wormeley Curtis September 1 To Lady Louisa Erskine Wolseley September 2 To Elizabeth Boott September 2 To Lady Louisa Erskine Wolseley September 9 To Thomas Bailey Aldrich September 9 To Emma Lazarus September 10 To Frederick Macmillan September 10 To Robert Louis Stevenson September 13 To Lady Louisa Erskine Wolseley September 15 To Frederick Macmillan September 18 To Frances Van de Grift Stevenson September 22 To Lady Louisa Erskine Wolseley September 24 To Jane Dalzell Finlay Hill October 5 To Thomas Bailey Aldrich October 8 To Ellen “Nellie” Epps Gosse October 9 To William James October 11 To Francis Boott October 16 To Thomas Bailey Aldrich October 18 To Theodore E. Child October 31 To Theodore E. Child October 31 To Henrietta Reubell November 4 To Frederick Macmillan November 6 To Robert Louis Stevenson November 13 To Francis Boott November 16 To Thomas Bailey Aldrich November 17 To Sidney Colvin November 18 To Henrietta Reubell November 20 To Louisa and Mary Lawrence November 20 To Frederick Macmillan November 21 To Edmund Gosse November 30 To Thomas Bailey Aldrich December 3 To Sarah Butler Wister December 4 To Frederick Macmillan December 5 To Henrietta Reubell December 8 To Robert Louis Stevenson December 9 To Emma Lazarus December 9 To Grace Norton December 19 To Thomas Bailey Aldrich December 21 To Henrietta Reubell Biographical Register General Editors’ Note Works Cited Index
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University of Nebraska Press The Complete Letters of Henry James 18841886
Book SynopsisThis fifteenth installment in the complete collection of Henry James's more than ten thousand letters records James's ongoing efforts to care for his sister, develop his work, strengthen his professional status, build friendships, and engage timely political and economic issues.Trade Review"Michael Anesko and Gregory W. Zacharias's achievement amounts to a culmination; they have given us authoritative editions comprising all James’s extant letters, complete with helpful contextual information."—Rafael Walker, Edith Wharton ReviewPraise for The Complete Letters of Henry James, 1878–1880, volumes 1 & 2 “Michael Anesko’s superb introduction to both volumes places James’s letters in these crucial years in the context of James’s literary works and the broader social history in which they were produced. . . . These new volumes of The Complete Letters of Henry James deserve our admiration for their scholarly rigor and the teamwork required not only of the volume editors and Michael Anesko but also of the associate editors, editorial assistants, and advisory group of this monumental project. . . . These handsome volumes . . . [are] extraordinary resources.”—John Carlos Rowe, Resource for American Literary StudyPraise for earlier volumes in The Complete Letters of Henry James series “Reading [these] edited letters is a delight. The transcriptions allow one to read fluidly rather than haltingly, preserving the rhythm and tone of the original communications together with their content. The explanatory notes do a superb job of contextualizing the letters and identifying references and allusions within them. I could not help but admire the astonishing discernment and scholarship manifested in this volume.”—Sarah Wadsworth, professor of English at Marquette University “Rippling through these letters are the first imaginative stirrings of one of the greatest fiction and travel writers in the language. [James] was also one of the most entertaining—and prolific—correspondents. . . . These are richly enthralling letters.”—Peter Kemp, Sunday Times (London) “This latest volume of the Complete Letters represents, no less than its forebears, an inestimable contribution to readers hitherto obliged to hunt down James’s letters in various selections or scattered archives, and deserves to be greeted with the same jubilant chorus of praise and gratitude.”—Alicia Rix, Times Literary Supplement Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Symbols and Abbreviations Chronology Errata 1885 December 24 To Theodore E. Child December 29 To Henrietta Reubell 1886 January 1 To Thomas Bailey Aldrich January 5 To Archibald Philip Primrose, Lord Rosebery January 7 To Elizabeth Boott January 11 To Mrs. Pfeiffer January 13 To Mrs. Pfeiffer January 21 To Edward Tyas Cook January 23 To Edward Tyas Cook January 25 To Frederick Macmillan January 28 To Edmund Gosse January 31 To Mr. Pfeiffer February 2 To Thomas Bailey Aldrich February 4 To Robert Louis Stevenson February 6 To Edwin Lawrence Godkin February 7 To Grace Norton February 11 To Maria Theresa Villiers Earle February 12 To Mary Smith Mundella February 22 To Elizabeth Boott February 22 To Francis Boott February 25 To Lady Elizabeth Eberstadt Lewis February 26 To Lady Elizabeth Eberstadt Lewis March 3 To Thomas Bailey Aldrich March 3 To Edward Lee Childe March 8 To Edith Russell, Lady Playfair March 9 To William James March 11 To Henrietta Reubell March 12 To Edwin Lawrence Godkin c. March 14 August 28 To Sir John Forbes Clark c. March 14 August 28 To Lady Constance Wilhelmina Frances Leslie March 14 To George Du Maurier March 17 To Elizabeth Boott March 18 To Edmund Gosse March 18 To Mary James Wilkinson Mathews March 19 August 27 To Louisa and Mary Wilhelmina Lawrence March 19 To Laurence Alma-Tadema March 26 To Thomas Bailey Aldrich March 27 or April 3, 10, or 17 To Robert Louis and Frances Van de Grift Stevenson March 29 or April 5 or 12 To Sidney Colvin March 29 or April 5 or 12 To Frances Van de Grift Stevenson March 29 To Thomas Bailey Aldrich March 29 To Emma Wilkinson Pertz April 2 To Thomas Bailey Aldrich April 7 To Ellen “Nellie” Epps Gosse April 7 To William James April 7 To Emma Wilkinson Pertz April 8 To Margaret Oliphant April 13 To Catharine Walsh April 16 To William Jones Hoppin April 18 To Frances Van de Grift Stevenson April 21 To Thomas Bailey Aldrich April 22 To Margaret Oliphant April 26 To Alfred Lyttelton April 29 To Thomas Bailey Aldrich May 1886 To Edmund Yates May 3 To Anne Benson Skepper Procter May 10 To Mary Morton Hartpence Sands May 13 To Mrs. Phelps May 16 To Lady Elizabeth Eberstadt Lewis May 19 To James Bryce May 19 To Henrietta Reubell May 19 To Laurence Alma-Tadema May 21 To Thomas Bailey Aldrich May 25 To Francis Boott May 27 To Thomas Bailey Aldrich May 29 To Mary James Wilkinson Mathews June 5 To Thomas Bailey Aldrich June 10 To Lady Isabella Augusta Persse Gregory June 10 To Miss Townley June 13 To Catharine Walsh June 13 To William James June 15 To Marion Langdon June 18 To Frederick Macmillan June 24 To Frederick Macmillan June 26 To Lady Elizabeth Eberstadt Lewis June 28 To Thomas Bailey Aldrich July 5 To Robert Underwood Johnson July 7 To Thomas Bailey Aldrich July 12 To Robert Underwood Johnson July 14 To Ariana Randolph Wormeley Curtis July 16 To Robert Louis Stevenson July 16 To Grace Norton July 23 To Robert Underwood Johnson July 25 To Robert Underwood Johnson July 30 To Robert Louis Stevenson August 5 To George Du Maurier August 7 To Edmund Gosse August 12 To Elizabeth Boott August 12 To Edmund Gosse August 15 To Francis Boott August 28 To Edmund Gosse August 28 To Frederick Locker-Lampson September 4 To James Russell Lowell c. September 8 c. October 1 1886 To Edmund Gosse September 10, 11 To William James September 12 To Lady Jane O’Meara Simon September 14 To Julian Russell Sturgis September 20 To Frederick Macmillan September 20 To Julian Russell Sturgis September 27 To Houghton, Mifflin and Company September 28 To Robert Underwood Johnson September 29 To Henry White October 1 To Florence Eveleen Olliffe Bell October 2 To Houghton, Mifflin and Company October 8 To Houghton, Mifflin and Company October 12 To Houghton, Mifflin and Company October 13 To Margaret Oliphant October 13 To Archibald Philip Primrose, Lord Rosebery October 18 To Elizabeth Boott October 19 To William Dean Howells October 20 To Katharine de Kay Bronson October 21 To Isabella Stewart Gardner October 22 To Edmund Gosse October 22 To Frederick Macmillan October 25 To Edmund Gosse October 25 To Robert Underwood Johnson October 25 188687 or 189094 To Elizabeth “Lily” Gaskell Norton October 26 To Isabella Stewart Gardner October 26 To Edmund Gosse October 28 To Carlo Placci October 29 To Edmund Gosse October 30 To Catharine Walsh November 3 To Edmund Gosse November 3 To Elizabeth “Dolly” Yates Thompson November 4 To Francis Boott November 4 To Katharine de Kay Bronson November 5 To Isabella Stewart Gardner November 5 To Robert Louis Stevenson November 8 To Edmund Gosse November 9 To Edwin Lawrence Godkin November 12 To Elizabeth “Lily” Millet November 12 To Henrietta Reubell November 12 To Robert Louis Stevenson November 13 To William James November 16 To Katharine de Mattos November 16 To Katharine Peabody Loring November 16 To James Russell Lowell November 17 To Frederick Locker-Lampson November 20 To Ellen “Nellie” Epps Gosse November 25 To Mrs. Simpson November 26 To Francis Boott November 27 To Florence Eveleen Olliffe Bell December 1 To Henry Alden December 1 To Violet Paget December 1 To Robert Louis Stevenson December 6 To Katharine de Kay Bronson December 6 To Lady Louisa Erskine Wolseley December 6 To Charles Eliot Norton December 7 To Grace Norton December 7 To William Dean Howells December 11, 18, or 25 1886; April 9, 16, 23, or 30 1887; or May 7, 14, or 21 1887 To Emma Wilkinson Pertz December 19 To William Archer December 19 To Robert Louis Stevenson December 23 To William James and Alice Howe Gibbens James December 24 To John Milton Hay December 31 To Linda White Mazini Villari Biographical Register General Editors’ Note Works Cited Index
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University of Nebraska Press The Complete Letters of Henry James 18871888
Book SynopsisThis sixteenth installment in the complete collection of Henry James's letters records James's ongoing efforts to care for his sister, develop his work, strengthen his professional status, build friendships, engage timely political and economic issues, and maximize his income.Trade Review“Michael Anesko’s superb introduction to both volumes [The Complete Letters of Henry James, 1878–1880, volumes 1 and 2] places James’s letters in these crucial years in the context of James’s literary works and the broader social history in which they were produced. . . . These new volumes of The Complete Letters of Henry James deserve our admiration for their scholarly rigor and the teamwork required not only of the volume editors and Michael Anesko but also of the associate editors, editorial assistants, and advisory group of this monumental project. . . . These handsome volumes . . . [are] extraordinary resources.”—John Carlos Rowe, Resource for American Literary Study “Rippling through these letters are the first imaginative stirrings of one of the greatest fiction and travel writers in the language. [James] was also one of the most entertaining—and prolific—correspondents. . . . These are richly enthralling letters.”—Peter Kemp, Sunday Times (London) “This latest volume of the Complete Letters represents, no less than its forebears, an inestimable contribution to readers hitherto obliged to hunt down James’s letters in various selections or scattered archives, and deserves to be greeted with the same jubilant chorus of praise and gratitude.”—Alicia Rix, Times Literary Supplement “The textual editing of the letters is fantastically thorough, every blot, deletion, insertion, and misspelling being lucidly presented in the text itself and further described in endnotes to each letter; for the reader this evokes the dash and spontaneity of James’s pen, and for the scholar it clarifies every possible ambiguity caused by that dash. . . . The letters themselves are so vivid, funny, and revealing that [the edition] is already indispensable.”—Alan Hollinghurst, The Guardian “The general public has been deprived of James’s full epistolary record until now. . . . All the more reason to celebrate the present volumes, handsomely produced and extensively and intelligently annotated.”—Peter Brooks, Bookforum"Michael Anesko and Gregory W. Zacharias's achievement amounts to a culmination; they have given us authoritative editions comprising all James’s extant letters, complete with helpful contextual information."—Rafael Walker, Edith Wharton Review"This is a great addition to libraries of all sorts, and it should be inspiration for writers to browse through some of these letters to find another writer’s input on topics we all have to ponder."—Pennsylvania Literary JournalTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Symbols and Abbreviations Chronology Errata 1887 1 January to c. 21 July 1887 To Dr. William Wilberforce Baldwin 4 January To Linda White Mazini Villari 19 January To Katharine de Kay Bronson 20 January To Lady Louisa Erskine Wolseley 21 January To Robert Louis Stevenson 21 January To Katharine de Kay Bronson 22 January To Katharine de Kay Bronson 25 January To Grace Norton 26 January To Katharine de Kay Bronson 26 January To Margaret Tod Cantagalli 27 January To Robert Underwood Johnson 27 January To Edith Peruzzi 28 January To Eleanor Frances Poynter 31 January To Walter Herries Pollock 5 February To Katharine de Kay Bronson 6 February To Dr. William Wilberforce Baldwin 7 February To Eliza Lynn Linton 18 February To Katharine de Kay Bronson 18 February To William James 25 February To Edwin Lawrence Godkin 25 February To William Dean Howells 26 February To Mary Morton Hartpence Sands 26 February To Catharine Walsh 26 February To Catharine Walsh 27 February To Grace Norton 27 February To Sarah Butler Wister 28 February To Katharine Peabody Loring March To Laura Wagnière 1 March To James Russell Lowell 2 March To George du Maurier 8 March To Dr. William Wilberforce Baldwin 13 March To Dr. William Wilberforce Baldwin 15 March To Francis Boott 23 March To Dr. William Wilberforce Baldwin 6 April To Francis Boott 7 April To William James 11 April To Robert Underwood Johnson 12 April To John Milton Hay 12 April To Hannah Locker-Lampson 13 April to 25 May 1887 To Somerset Beaumont 14 April To Ellen “Nellie” Epps Gosse 23 April To Katharine de Kay Bronson 23 April To Ariana Randolph Wormeley Curtis 24 April To Ariana Randolph Wormeley Curtis 24 April To Alice Howe Gibbens James 24 April To Edmund Gosse 24 April To Mary Morton Hartpence Sands 25 April To Felix Moscheles 25 April To Sir 2 May To Robert Underwood Johnson 3 May To Katharine de Kay Bronson 3 May To William James 3 May To James Russell Lowell 15 May To Robert Louis Stevenson 16 May To Robert Louis Stevenson 20 May To Frances “Fanny” Anne Kemble 22 May To Linda White Mazini Villari 23 May To Violet Paget 23 May To Laura Wagnière June 1887 To Robert Louis Stevenson 12 June To Thomas Bailey Aldrich 13 June To Robert Underwood Johnson 14 June To John White Alexander 16 June To James Russell Lowell 16 June To Catharine Walsh 18 June To Juliet Trower 21 June To Thomas Bailey Aldrich 24 June To Katharine de Kay Bronson 28 June To Robert Underwood Johnson July 1887 To Robert Louis Stevenson 3 July To Ariana Randolph Wormeley Curtis 9 July To Ariana Randolph Wormeley Curtis 21 July To John Milton Hay 21 July To Eliot Norton 22 July To Isabella Stewart Gardner 22 July To John Milton Hay 23 July To Grace Norton 26 July To Isabella Stewart Gardner 26 July To Catharine Walsh 27 July To Charles Eliot Norton 28 July To John Milton Hay 28 July To Frances “Fanny” van de Grift Stevenson 2 August 1887-89 To Lillian June Bailey Henschel 2 August To Robert Louis Stevenson 3 August To Edmund Gosse 5 August To James Ripley Osgood 7 August To Elizabeth Blakeway Smith 10 August To Mary Theresa Mundella 10 August To James Ripley Osgood 11 August To Frances “Fanny” van de Grift Stevenson 17 August To Edmund Gosse 17 August To Mary Morton Hartpence Sands 17 August To Frances “Fanny” van de Grift Stevenson 18 August To Theodore E. Child 18 August To Katharine Peabody Loring 18 August To Mary Morton Hartpence Sands 19 August To Edmund Gosse 23 August To Florence Bell 23 August To John Milton Hay 29 August To Florence Bell 31 August To Edmund Gosse 7 September To Ariana Randolph Wormeley Curtis 7 September To Daniel Sargent Curtis 9 September To Sidney Colvin 17 September To Katharine de Kay Bronson 17 September To Charles Eliot Norton 20 September To Theodore E. Child 20 September To Elizabeth “Lily” Millet 20 September To Elizabeth “Lily” Norton 21 September To Sidney Colvin 24 September To Samuel Dana Horton 24 September To Samuel Dana Horton 27 September To Samuel Dana Horton 27 September To Henrietta Reubell 27 September To Catharine Walsh 28 September To Elizabeth “Lily” Millet October Robert Louis Stevenson 1, 5 October To William James 7 October To Sarah Butler Wister 19 October To Thomas Bailey Aldrich 19 October To Isabella Stewart Gardner 19 October To Frederick Macmillan 20 October To Isabella Stewart Gardner 20 October To Isabella Stewart Gardner 20 October To Robert Louis Stevenson 21 October To Frederick Macmillan 28 October To Robert Underwood Johnson 30 October To Alice Stopford Green 30 October To Margaret Oliphant 30 October To Henrietta Reubell 12 November To Edwin Austen Abbey 12 November To Thomas Bailey Aldrich 13 November To Elizabeth Boott 13 November To Robert Underwood Johnson 15 November To American Copyright League 15 November To Robert Underwood Johnson 17 November To Lady Louisa Erskine Wolseley 21 November To Henrietta Reubell 23 November To Lady Louisa Erskine Wolseley 24 November To Mary Morton Hartpence Sands 29 November To Lillian June Bailey Henschel 30 November To Frederick Macmillan 30 November To Urbain Mengin 5 December To Isabella Stewart Gardner 5 December To Robert Louis Stevenson 8 December To Lady Louisa Erskine Wolseley 11 December To Lady Louisa Erskine Wolseley 18 December To Ariana Randolph Wormeley and Daniel Sargent Curtis 18 December To Edmund Gosse 18 December To Robert Louis Stevenson 18 December To Owen Wister 19 December To Robert Underwood Johnson 19 December To Henrietta Reubell 22 December To Robert Underwood Johnson Biographical Register General Editors’ Note Works Cited
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University of Nebraska Press The Complete Letters of Henry James 18871888
Book SynopsisThis seventeenth installment in the complete collection of Henry James's known and extant letters records James's ongoing efforts to care for his sister, develop his work, strengthen his professional status, build friendships, engage timely political and economic issues, and maximize his income.Trade ReviewPraise for earlier volumes in The Complete Letters of Henry James series “Michael Anesko’s superb introduction to both volumes [The Complete Letters of Henry James, 1878–1880, volumes 1 and 2] places James’s letters in these crucial years in the context of James’s literary works and the broader social history in which they were produced. . . . These new volumes of The Complete Letters of Henry James deserve our admiration for their scholarly rigor and the teamwork required not only of the volume editors and Michael Anesko but also of the associate editors, editorial assistants, and advisory group of this monumental project. . . . These handsome volumes . . . [are] extraordinary resources.”—John Carlos Rowe, Resource for American Literary Study “Reading [these] edited letters is a delight. The transcriptions allow one to read fluidly rather than haltingly, preserving the rhythm and tone of the original communications together with their content. The explanatory notes do a superb job of contextualizing the letters and identifying references and allusions within them. I could not help but admire the astonishing discernment and scholarship manifested in this volume.”—Sarah Wadsworth, professor of English at Marquette University “Rippling through these letters are the first imaginative stirrings of one of the greatest fiction and travel writers in the language. [James] was also one of the most entertaining—and prolific—correspondents. . . . These are richly enthralling letters.”—Peter Kemp, Sunday Times (London)Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Symbols and Abbreviations Chronology Errata 1887 24 December To Rhoda Broughton 24 December To Edmund Gosse 30 December To Thomas Bailey Aldrich 1888 2 January To William Dean Howells 3 January To Edmund Gosse 4 January To Urbain Mengin 4, 10 January and 5 February To Grace Norton 6 January To Rhoda Broughton 6 January To Joseph Pennell 7 January To Edmund Gosse 9 January To Edmund Gosse 10 January To Lady Florence Eveleen Olliffe Bell 15 January To Henrietta Reubell 15 January To Lady Louisa Erskine Wolseley 16 January To Robert Underwood Johnson 19 January To Edmund Gosse 20 January To Rhoda Broughton 23 January To Lady Louisa Erskine Wolseley 24 January To Louisa Lawrence and Mary Lawrence 25 January To Edmund Gosse 26 January To Frederick Macmillan 28 January To Alice Stopford Green 28 January To Lady Caroline Elizabeth Blanche Lindsay 29 January To Elizabeth Boott 30 January To Edmund Gosse February To Alice James 3 February To Lady Florence Eveleen Olliffe Bell 8 February To Lady Louisa Erskine Wolseley 13 February To Charles Stanley Reinhart 15 February To Lady Florence Eveleen Olliffe Bell 17 February To Frances Balfour 20 February To William James 22 February To Henrietta Reubell 23 February To Paul Bourget 23 February To Alice James 23 February To Urbain Mengin 24 February To Daniel Sargent Curtis 27 February To Edmund Gosse 28 February To Edmund Gosse 28 February To Robert Louis Stevenson 29 February To Edmund Gosse March or April To Mary Augusta Arnold Ward 3 March To Thomas Bailey Aldrich 3 March To Mrs. Brooke 10 March To Lady Constance Leslie 10 March To Laura Wagnière 15 March To Florence Bell 18 March To Rhoda Broughton 18 March To Isabella Stewart Gardner 18 March 1888–89 To Florence Robb 19 March To Urbain Mengin 21 March To Frederick Macmillan 21 March To Lady Louisa Erskine Wolseley 23 March To Rhoda Broughton 23 March To Theodore E. Child 27 March To William Archer 27 March To Theodore E. Child 1 April To Henrietta Reubell 2 April To Ariana Randolph Wormeley Curtis 3 April To Francis Boott 3 April To Urbain Mengin 4 April To Louisa and Mary Lawrence 5 April To Henrietta Reubell 6 April To Lady Florence Eveleen Olliffe Bell 6 April To Louisa Lawrence 8 April To R. & R. Clark 9 April To Robert Underwood Johnson 10 April To George Henry Boughton 10 April To Lady Louisa Erskine Wolseley 11 April To Edward Lee Childe 12 April To Lady Florence Eveleen Olliffe Bell 21 April To Francis Boott 21 April To Rhoda Broughton 21 April To Constance de Rothschild Flower, Lady Battersea 21 April To Henrietta Reubell 28 April To Samuel Dana Horton 1 May To Rhoda Broughton [2 May] To Rhoda Broughton 3 May To Rhoda Broughton 3 May To Edmund Gosse 6 May To Rhoda Broughton 9 May To Frederic William Henry Myers 9 May To Mary Morton Hartpence Sands 10 May To Thomas George Bain 12 May To Rhoda Broughton 15 May To Francis Boott 15 May To Ariana Randolph Wormeley Curtis 15 May To William Fraser Rae late Mayearly June To Samuel Dana Horton 19 May To Mrs. Robb 19 May To Edinburgh Philosophical Institute 21 May To Houghton, Mifflin and Company 22 May To Katharine Sands Godkin 22 May To Edmund Gosse 22 May To Catharine Walsh 23 May To Violet Paget 24 May To Frederick Macmillan 24 May To Henrietta Reubell 25 May To James Ripley Osgood 26 May To Alice Stopford Green 26 May To Mary Morton Hartpence Sands 29 May To Harry Quilter 31 May To Harry Quilter 1 June To Frederic William Henry Myers 4 June To Edmund Gosse 4 June To Henrietta Reubell 5 June To Dr. Edward Eggleston 9 June To Daniel Conner Lathbury 12 June To Lilian June Bailey Henschel 13 June To Charles Stanley Reinhart 20 June To Henrietta Reubell 26 June To William James 28 June To Harry Quilter 28 June To Harry Quilter 29 June To Edmund Gosse 30 June To Henrietta Reubell 2 July To Elizabeth “Lily” Norton 2 July To Maria Theodora Sedgwick 3 July To Henrietta Reubell 3, 5 July To Mary Augusta Arnold Ward 4 July To Henrietta Reubell 4 July To Harry Quilter 5 July To Frederick Macmillan 6 July To Edmund Gosse 6 July To Alice Stopford Green 6 July To Harry Quilter 7 July To Robert Underwood Johnson 7 July To Lady Elizabeth Eberstadt Lewis 7 July To Harry Quilter 8 July To Sarah Butler Wister 10 July To Henrietta Reubell 12 July To Walter Besant and Edmund Gosse 14 July To Edmund Gosse 17 July To Harry Quilter 20 July To Harry Quilter 24 July To Harry Quilter 26 July To Francis Boott 26 July To Kate Sara Sibley Gurney 27 July To Charles Stanley Reinhart 27 July To Isabella Stewart Gardner 31 July To Dr. William Wilberforce Baldwin 31 July To Robert Louis Stevenson 1 August To Edmund Gosse 4 August To Charles Stanley Reinhart 7 August To Lady Louisa Erskine Wolseley 11 August To Margaret Stuyvesant Rutherfurd White 13 August To Lady Louisa Erskine Wolseley 15 August To Lady Louisa Erskine Wolseley 20 August To Edmund Gosse 22 August To Edmund Gosse 26 August To Edmund Gosse 27 August To Edmund Gosse 29 August To Henrietta Reubell 29 August To Elizabeth “Lily” Millet 10 September To Thomas Bailey Aldrich 10 September To Lady Florence Eveleen Olliffe Bell 10 September To Lady Louisa Erskine Wolseley 11 September To Lady Louisa Erskine Wolseley 28 September To Urbain Mengin 29 September To William Dean Howells 29 September To Urbain Mengin 29 September To Henrietta Reubell 30 September To Thomas Bailey Aldrich 30 September To Grace Norton 30 September To Catharine Walsh 13 October To Frederick Macmillan 15 October To Laura Alma-Tadema 20 October To Frederic William Henry Myers 24 October To Thomas Bailey Aldrich 28 October To Thomas Bailey Aldrich 28 October To Richard Watson Gilder 29 October To Francis Boott 29 October To William James 29 October To Henrietta Reubell 30 October To Ariana Randolph Wormeley Curtis 30 October To Houghton, Mifflin and Company 1 November; misdated October To Robert Underwood Johnson 6 November To Rhoda Broughton 6 November To Daniel Sargent Curtis 10 November To Constance de Rothschild Flower, Lady Battersea 11 November To Elizabeth “Dolly” Yates Thompson 13 November To Thomas Bailey Aldrich 16 November To Elizabeth “Lily” Millet 18 November To Daniel Sargent Curtis 19 November To Daniel Sargent Curtis 19 November To James Russell Lowell 19 November To Henrietta Reubell Biographical Register General Editors’ Note Works Cited Index
£67.15
Nebraska Where Are You from
Book Synopsis
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Cornell University Press Immigrant Girl Radical Woman
Book SynopsisMatilda Rabinowitz's illustrated memoir challenges assumptions about the lives of early twentieth-century women. In Immigrant Girl, Radical Woman, Rabinowitz describes the ways in which she and her contemporaries rejected the intellectual and social restrictions imposed on women as they sought political and economic equality in the first half of the twentieth century. Rabinowitz devoted her labor and commitment to the notion that women should feel entitled to independence, equal rights, equal pay, and sexual and personal autonomy.Rabinowitz (18871963) immigrated to the United States from Ukraine at the age of thirteen. Radicalized by her experience in sweatshops, she became an organizer for the Industrial Workers of the World from 1912 to 1917 before choosing single motherhood in 1918. Big Bill Haywood once wrote, a book could be written about Matilda, but her memoir was intended as a private story for her grandchildren, Robbin Légère Henderson among them. Henderson's Trade ReviewA fascinating, educational and engaging personal story written like a great novel rather than a typical memoir.... Matilda’s story strengthens the resolve of women to find their own place in society in their own time and be inspired. I will recommend Immigrant Girl, Radical Woman to my college students as a must read. * Israel National News *Offers a sustained focus on labor in the early twentieth century, including factory conditions for women and men, intra-union dynamics, and the challenges facing working mothers.... Scholars will find much to love in this engaging, touching, and timely memoir that may not have been written for this wider audience but, happily, has found us. * Legacy 35.2 *A fascinating interplay between past and present and help us to read between the lines of Matilda's words...Robbins' memoir is recommended to anyone interested in labour organization and women workers in the early years of the 20th century. The ease of reading, illustrations, and Henderson's additions make it an ideal book for assigning to undergraduates * Labour/Le Travail *Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments 1. These Were Pioneers, Too 2. The Journey to America 3. The Wretched Refuse of Your Teeming Shores 4. A New Career 5. Bridgeport and Socialism 6. I Fell in Love with Him 7. Little Falls 8. A Gallery of Radicals 9. After Little Falls 10. Greenville, South Carolina, "The Toughest Job" 11. New York, Greenwich, World War I 12. A New Life (Vita) 13. Ben Returns 14. Washington 15. Ballardvale, Greenwich Village, Cos Cob, St. Louis Matilda’s Life Following the Events Described in Her Memoir Afterword Appendix Index
£22.79
Cornell University Press Laura Nader
Book SynopsisLaura Nader documents decades of letters written, received, and archived by esteemed author and anthropologist Laura Nader. She revisits her correspondence with academic colleagues, lawyers, politicians, military officers, and many others, all with unique and insightful perspectives on a variety of social and political issues. She uses personal and professional correspondence as a way of examining complex issues and dialogues that might not be available by other means. By compiling these letters, Nader allows us to take an intimate look at how she interacts with people across multiple fields, disciplines, and outlooks.Arranged chronologically by decade, this book follows Nader from her early career and efforts to change patriarchal policies at UC, Berkeley, to her efforts to fight against climate change and minimize environmental degradation. The letters act as snapshots, giving us glimpses of the lives and issues that dominated culture at the time of their writing. AmTrade ReviewLetters is a carefully crafted book that masterfully weaves together several narratives. Letters challenges us all to contemplate, calmly compose our thoughts, and commit ourselves to reclaiming the art of heartfelt, handwritten communication. * PoLAR *A fascinating and eclectic documentary record, one for which different readers will find disciplinary, historical, and biographic interest in relation to different topics, exchanges, and interlocuters. * Public Anthropologist *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Getting Started in the Sixties 2. Reinventing Anthropology in the Seventies 3. Uncovering Academic Mindsets in the Eighties 4. The Ivory Tower Is No More in the Nineties 5. A Twenty-First-Century World Epilogue
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Munich 1919: Diary of a Revolution
Book SynopsisMunich 1919 is a vivid portrayal of the chaos that followed World War I and the collapse of the Munich Council Republic by one of the most perceptive chroniclers of German history. Victor Klemperer provides a moving and thrilling account of what turned out to be a decisive turning point in the fate of a nation, for the revolution of 1918-9 not only produced the first German democracy, it also heralded the horrors to come. With the directness of an educated and independent young man, Klemperer turned his hand to political journalism, writing astute, clever and linguistically brilliant reports in the beleaguered Munich of 1919. He sketched intimate portraits of the people of the hour, including Erich Mühsam, Max Levien and Kurt Eisner, and took the measure of the events around him with a keen eye. These observations are made ever more poignant by the inclusion of passages from his later memoirs. In the midst of increasing persecution under the Nazis he reflected on the fateful year 1919, the growing threat of antisemitism, and the acquaintances he made in the period, some of whom would later abandon him, while others remained loyal. Klemperer's account once again reveals him to be a fearless and deeply humane recorder of German history. Munich 1919 will be essential reading for all those interested in 20th century history, constituting a unique witness to events of the period.Trade Review"Klemperer guides us through the confusion of those troubled days in Munich with empathy, subtlety and a perceptive eye." - Christopher Clark, University of Cambridge, UK "Klemperer has once again proven himself to be a brilliant reporter and an intelligent essayist. A sensational testimony. - Die Zeit "With his talent for dramatic portrayals, for reflection, and his knack for boiling things down to their essence, Munich 1919 gives us a more intimate view of Klemperer than we've ever seen before." - Die Welt "Klemperer's ability to grasp moods and attitudes has a truly Dickensian quality." - Los Angeles Times"A message in a bottle, with real immediacy." - Sydney Morning Herald"A compelling chronicle" - The Times Literary Supplement“This account needs to be read for itself and its dramatic descriptions of chaos and political madness. But it also needs to be read as a harbinger of the future — and attitudes that shaped German acquiescence in, and belief in, the violent antisemitism of Nazi ideology" - The Jewish Chronicle"Klemperer’s diary provides an invaluable, unique perspective on the creation and suppression of the Munich Soviet Republic. Observing and recording how events unfolded from his university perch, Klemperer’s account conveys the sense of confusion, of isolation, and of uncertainty that pervaded… Born in Prussia to Jewish parents, Klemperer uneasily records how Bavarian particularism blurred anti-Prussianism, anti-Semitism, and anti-Bolshevism into a toxic brew of resentment, fear, and loathing. Klemperer’s Munich 1919. Diary of a Revolution will become essential reading for those interested in the Weimar Republic, Bavarian identity, and the backstory to the rise of Hitler and National Socialism." - H-Net: Humanities & Social Sciences Online ‘a sobering glimpse into an uncertain time when history might have tilted in a different direction. Through [Klemperer’s] writings, we can come to see how those first violent months of the Weimar Republic were only a prelude to the later catastrophe.’The Nation "This is a gem of a book."Journal of Modern HistoryTable of ContentsForewordChristopher Clark Notes on the text Munich 1919 Diary of a Revolution Politics and the Bohemian World February 1919 Revolution Two Munich Ceremonies February 1919 Revolution Munich After Eisner's Assassination February 22, 1919 Revolution The Events at the University of Munich April 8, 1919 Revolution The Third Revolution in Bavaria April 9, 1919 Revolutionary Diary April 17, 1919 April 18, 1919 Revolution Revolutionary Diary April 19, 1919 Revolution Revolutionary Diary April 20, 1919 April 21, 1919 April 22, 1919 Revolution Revolutionary Diary April 30, 1919 Revolution Revolutionary Diary May 2, 1919 May 4, 1919 May 10, 1919 Revolution Munich Tragicomedy January 17, 1920 Appendix The German Revolution of 1918-9: A Historical EssayWolfram Wette Chronology About this edition Picture credits Notes Index
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Friendship of Roland Barthes
Book SynopsisIn Roland Barthes's eyes, Philippe Sollers embodied the figure of the contemporary writer forever seeking something new. Thirty-six years after Barthes produced his study Sollers Writer, Sollers has written a book on the man who was his friend and who shared with him a total faith in literature as a force of invention and discovery, as a resource and an encyclopaedia.They met regularly, exchanged many letters and fought many battles together, against every kind of academicism, every political and ideological regression. Barthes shed light on Sollers's work in a series of articles that are still of great relevance today. Sollers, in turn, assumed the role of Barthes's publisher at Le Seuil from the publication of his Critical Essays in 1964, and was left deeply shocked and saddened by Barthes's death in 1980. In short, they were very close to each other, despite their differences, and Sollers expresses here what this meant at the time and what it continues to represent, highlighting the themes that sustained their friendship.The book also contains some thirty letters from Barthes to Sollers, completing our image of one of the most extraordinary partnerships in French literary life.Trade Review"These traces of an elusive life – a selection of letters by Roland Barthes, affectionate memories of him, and above all an evocative sketch of the precise place he occupied in a complex and combative intellectual history – add up to a compelling portrait of a much missed writer."—Michael Wood, Princeton University"This engaging book will give great pleasure to fans of both Sollers and Barthes. Sollers writes movingly about his long-term friendship with Barthes in a way that is full of human interest – anecdotal, autobiographical, literary, and political. The letters from Barthes to Sollers are delightful, especially the inclusion of copies of the handwritten letters. The increasing intimacy of their friendship, always expressed via the deeply respectful French vous form, will fascinate lovers of the epistolary form as well as scholars and students of Barthes and Sollers."—Christina Howells, University of Oxford, UKTable of ContentsContents Friendship R.B. Letters from Roland Barthes to Philippe Sollers Appendices
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Friendship of Roland Barthes
Book SynopsisIn Roland Barthes's eyes, Philippe Sollers embodied the figure of the contemporary writer forever seeking something new. Thirty-six years after Barthes produced his study Sollers Writer, Sollers has written a book on the man who was his friend and who shared with him a total faith in literature as a force of invention and discovery, as a resource and an encyclopaedia.They met regularly, exchanged many letters and fought many battles together, against every kind of academicism, every political and ideological regression. Barthes shed light on Sollers's work in a series of articles that are still of great relevance today. Sollers, in turn, assumed the role of Barthes's publisher at Le Seuil from the publication of his Critical Essays in 1964, and was left deeply shocked and saddened by Barthes's death in 1980. In short, they were very close to each other, despite their differences, and Sollers expresses here what this meant at the time and what it continues to represent, highlighting the themes that sustained their friendship.The book also contains some thirty letters from Barthes to Sollers, completing our image of one of the most extraordinary partnerships in French literary life.Trade Review"These traces of an elusive life – a selection of letters by Roland Barthes, affectionate memories of him, and above all an evocative sketch of the precise place he occupied in a complex and combative intellectual history – add up to a compelling portrait of a much missed writer." —Michael Wood, Princeton University "This engaging book will give great pleasure to fans of both Sollers and Barthes. Sollers writes movingly about his long-term friendship with Barthes in a way that is full of human interest – anecdotal, autobiographical, literary, and political. The letters fro, Barthes to Sollers are delightful, especially the inclusion of copies of the handwritten letters. The increasing intimacy of their friendship, always expressed via the deeply respectful French vous form, will fascinate lovers of the epistolary form as well as scholars and students of Barthes and Sollers."—Christina Howells, University of Oxford, UK"enjoyably grouchy homage"The New York Review of BooksTable of ContentsContents Friendship R.B. Letters from Roland Barthes to Philippe Sollers Appendices
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University of Minnesota Press A Private Wilderness: The Journals of Sigurd F.
Book SynopsisThe personal diaries of one of America’s best-loved naturalists, revealing his difficult and inspiring path to finding his voice and becoming a writer—now available in paperback Few writers are as renowned for their eloquence about the natural world, its power and fragility, as Sigurd F. Olson (1899–1982). Before he could give expression to The Singing Wilderness, however, he had to find his own voice. It is this struggle, the painstaking and often simply painful process of becoming the writer and conservationist now familiar to us, that Olson documented in the journal entries gathered here. Written mostly during the years from 1930 to 1941, Olson’s journals describe the dreams and frustrations of an aspiring writer honing his skills, pursuing recognition, and facing doubt while following the academic career that allowed him to live and work even as it consumed so much of his time. But even as he speaks with immediacy and intensity about the conditions of his apprenticeship, Olson can be seen developing the singular way of observing and depicting the natural world that would bring him fame—and also, more significantly, alert others to the urgent need to understand and protect that world. Author of Olson’s definitive biography, editor David Backes brings a deep knowledge of the writer to these journals, providing critical context, commentary, and insights along the way. When Olson wrote, in the spring of 1941, “What I am afraid of now is that the world will blow up just as I am getting it organized to suit me,” he could hardly have known how right he would prove to be. It is propitious that at our present moment, when the world seems once more balanced on the precipice, we have the words of Sigurd F. Olson to remind us of what matters—and of the hard work and the wonder that such a reckoning requires. Trade Review "There is an innocent romance in Olson’s essays, a sincere touch of the spiritual." —The Wall Street Journal "A revelation of Olson’s personal diaries and his struggles to balance his life’s passion — writing about nature, about the outdoors — with his job as a teacher, his responsibilities as a husband and father and his role as a national leader in the growing movement to preserve wild places."—Duluth News Tribune "The first decades of Sigurd Olson’s writing life were filled with frustration and hope, failure and doubt, and finally, publication. The new collection of his journals from this painful and formative time reveals a writer whose life was defined by the struggle between his calling and his many commitments."—Quetico Superior Wilderness News "While those journal entries were haphazard, often on scraps of paper, usually dated, but sometimes not, they captured [Olson’s] thoughts about the wilderness he loved and how he wanted to be the writer who shared those experiences with readers."—Steve Gardiner "For the voice of a man who spent his life in more familiar wild country, seek out A Private Wilderness."—Minnesota Alumni "A revelation of Olson’s personal diaries and his struggles to balance his life’s passion—writing about nature, about the outdoors—with his job as a teacher, his responsibilities as a husband and father and his role as a national leader in the growing movement to preserve wild places."—Duluth News Tribune "The first decades of Sigurd Olson’s writing life were filled with frustration and hope, failure and doubt, and finally, publication. The new collection of his journals from this painful and formative time reveals a writer whose life was defined by the struggle between his calling and his many commitments."—Quetico Superior Wilderness News "While those journal entries were haphazard, often on scraps of paper, usually dated, but sometimes not, they captured [Olson’s] thoughts about the wilderness he loved and how he wanted to be the writer who shared those experiences with readers."—Steve Gardiner "For the voice of a man who spent his life in more familiar wild country, seek out A Private Wilderness."—Minnesota Alumni "There is an innocent romance in Olson’s essays, a sincere touch of the spiritual."—The Wall Street Journal Table of Contents Contents Preface Introduction: Wild Calling David Backes A Private Wilderness The Winter of Renewal: January–March 1930 Quiet Desperation: April–December 1930 Reluctant Ecologist: April 1931–January 1932 Unsettled in Ely: September 1932–October 1934 Farewell to Saganaga: October 1934–August 1935 The Dean: September 1935–September 1937 Grandmother’s Trout: October 1937–February 1939 We Used to Sing: March 1939–February 1940 Big Brother’s Big Idea: February–December 1940 America Out of Doors: January–May 1941 Casualty of War: May 1941–March 1944 Medium Again: April 1944–November 1946 A New Life in Conservation: December 1946–October 1947 The Singing Wilderness: April 1949–February 1954 Epilogue: 1963–1972 Chronology Notes Index
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Random House USA Inc The Long Run: A Memoir of Loss and Life in Motion
Book SynopsisAn unlikely marathoner finds her way through grief and into the untold history of women and running.Thirty-year-old Catriona Menzies-Pike defined herself in many ways: voracious reader, pub crawler, feminist, backpacker, and, since her parents' deaths a decade earlier, orphan. Runner was nowhere near the list. Yet when she began training for a half marathon on a whim, she found herself an instant convert. Soon she realized that running, a pace suited to the precarious labor of memory, was helping her to grieve the loss of her parents in ways that she had been, for ten messy years, running away from. As Catriona excavates her own past, she also grows curious about other women drawn to running. What she finds is a history of repression and denial—running was thought to endanger childbearing, and as late as 1967 the organizer of the Boston Marathon tried to drag a woman off the course, telling her to get the hell out of my race—but also of incredible courage and achievement. As she brings to life the stories of pioneering athletes and analyzes the figure of the woman runner in pop culture, literature, and myth, she comes to the heart of why she's running, and why any of us do.
£20.00
Pen & Sword Books Ltd Waterloo Letters: A Collection of Accounts from
Book SynopsisThe Frontline Napoleonic Library is an unparalleled collection of classic works on the Napoleonic Wars. Presenting some of the finest memoirs and studies of the period the collection brings together renowned contemporary accounts with more recent analytical publications. One of the most important collections of original letters from participants in the Waterloo campaign The letters formed the basis of William Sibornes ground-breaking History of the Waterloo Campaign Accounts from every branch of the British Army
£23.61
Little Brown and Company A Carnival of Snackery: Diaries (2003-2020)
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£30.00
Exile Editions Hoggwash: The Rosenblatt / Callaghan Epistolary
Book SynopsisBarry Callaghan and Joe Rosenblatt, poets of perspicacity, pizzazz, and probity, have been combative, ecstatic compadres for over 40 years, with Callaghan donning an array of chapeaus, the man of belles lettres and hog flaneur-on-the-hoof from Smooth City, while Rosenblatt decades ago declared his unconditional allegiance to the buzzzers, chirpers, and purrers of the natural world, to remain at peace by his pond, aloof from the human horde. This most unlikely pair are conjoined by their shared dedication to the Word, to those rare moments of ascendent insight that are contained in bedrock language, to disputation about all matters of gravity and gullibility, and to the sharing of extraordinary paintings and ink drawings come from their nether surreal and noumenal worlds. Hoggwash, a convergence by epistle, is a tribute not just to their enduring friendship but to the life of the imagination itself. There is no record of correspondence like this, anywhere in the world.Trade ReviewIf there is one writer I want to read anywhere and always, it is Barry Callaghan. Callaghan talking with Joe Rosenblatt can only be an incredible bonus." —Joe Fiorito, Toronto Star"Callaghan and Rosenblatt have taken two decades of letters, poems, and drawings and composed one of the most engaging exchanges ever shared." —Leon Rooke
£16.16
Graywolf Press,U.S. The Delicacy and Strength of Lace: Letters
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Graywolf Press Airmail: The Letters of Robert Bly and Tomas
Book SynopsisThe illuminating letters of the National Book Award winning poet Robert Bly and the Nobel Prize winning poet Tomas TranstromerOne day in spring 1964, the young American poet Robert Bly left his rural farmhouse and drove 150 miles to the University of Minnesota library in Minneapolis to obtain the latest book by the young Swedish poet Tomas Transtromer. When Bly returned home that evening with a copy of Transtromer's The Half-Finished Heaven, he found a letter waiting for him from its author.With this remarkable coincidence as its beginning, what followed was a vibrant correspondence between two poets who would become essential contributors to global literature. Airmail collects more than 290 letters, written from 1964 until 1990, when Transtromer suffered a stroke that has left him partially paralyzed and diminished his capacity to write. Across their correspondence, the two poets are profoundly engaged with each other and with the larger world: the Vietnam War, European and American elections, and the struggles of affording a life as a writer. Airmail also illuminates the work of translation as Bly began to render Transtromer's poetry into English and Transtromer began to translate Bly's poetry into Swedish. Their collaboration quickly turned into a friendship that has lasted fifty years.Insightful, brilliant, and often funny, Airmail provides a rare portrait of two artists who have become integral to each other's particular genius. This publication marks the first time letters by Bly and Transtromer have been made available in the United States.
£28.00
University of Arkansas Press Saipan: The War Diary of John Ciardi
Book SynopsisCiardi records his days and nights as a gunner on a B-29 in the South Pacific during four of the last terrible months of World War II.
£999.99
University of Arkansas Press The The Selected Letters of John Gould Fletcher
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University of Arkansas Press The World War II Love Letters of Leland Duvall
Book SynopsisLeland Duvall was a now-and-again farm worker with a grade-school education when he received his World War II draft notice at his father’s farm near Moreland, Arkansas, in March of 1942. He departed for training in California, where he began to write to Letty Jones, a Pottsville girl he’d had a crush on for several years. From the first correspondence through the end of the war, Leland sent Letty a torrent of letters, hundreds of careful and undeniably heartfelt missives—utterly tender but never sentimental, reliably charming and gently humorous—written daily from desert sands, pup tents, hospital beds, armored cars, and bombed-out buildings. That Duvall’s writing is a tour de force of wit, elegance, and erudition is all the more poignant because he was a man who was almost entirely self-taught. The letters, discovered by Duvall’s daughter four years after his death in 2010, are here enriched by his longtime friend and colleague Ernie Dumas, who provides facts about where Duvall was and the perils he endured while penning his epistles, information that was often missing in dispatches that were necessarily censored and always guided by Duvall’s effort not to bore or worry his “dearest Letty.” Duvall’s lively intelligence and obvious joy in writing come through on every page, joining with vividness the patina of the time and the bright shine of a timeless love affair.
£999.99
Purdue University Press Father, Have I Kept My Promise?: Madness as Seen
Book SynopsisIn 1937 Edith had received a doctorate in psychology from the University of Vienna, and high recommendations from her famous teachers. Her career prospects looked bright indeed. But a year later, she was a refugee from Hitler's war on Jews. She left her Nazi-occupied homeland and immigrated to the United States in 1939. In the United States, she pursued her career in psychology as a professor at prominent universities as well as a clinical consultant for the State of Indiana. As a psychology professor at Purdue, she contracted tuberculosis and spent 1962-64 in a tuberculosis hospital. Before she was released, she began to experience instances of schizophrenia. In this condition, she taught at St. Mary-of the-Woods College in Terre Haute, Indiana, for a year. Just before her stay there was to end, a priest discovered her mental illness. All through her mental illness, she kept a diary chronicling her "schizophrenic episode." Father, Have I Kept My Promise? is that diary-turned-book. Part of the book's charm is Edith's honesty--she does not bide anything from her reader.
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Purdue University Press Dear Neil Armstrong: Letters to the First Man
Book SynopsisIn the years between the historic first moon landing by Apollo 11 on July 20,1969, and his death at age 82 on August 25, 2002, Neil Armstrong received hundreds of thousands of cards and letters from all over the world, congratulating him, praising him, requesting pictures and autographs, and asking him what must have seemed to him to be limitless— and occasionally intrusive— questions. Of course, all the famous astronauts received fan mail, but the sheer volume Armstrong had to deal with for more than four decades after his moon landing was staggering. Today, the preponderance of those letters— some 75,000 of them— are preserved in the archives at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana. Dear Neil Armstrong publishes a careful sampling of these letters —roughly 400— reflecting the various kinds of correspondence that Armstrong received along with representative samples of his replies. Selected and edited by James R. Hansen, Armstrong’s authorized biographer and author of the New YorkTimes best seller First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong, this collection sheds light on Armstrong’s enduring impact and offers an intimate glimpse into the cultural meanings of human spaceflight. Readers will explore what the thousands of letters to Neil Armstrong meant not only to those who wrote them, but as a snapshot of one of humankind’s greatest achievements in the twentieth century. They will see how societies and cultures projected their own meanings onto one of the world’s great heroes and iconic figures.Table of Contents FOREWORD PREFACE 1. FIRST WORDS 2. CONGRATULATIONS AND WELCOME HOME 3. THE SOVIETS 4. FOR ALL MANKIND 5. FROM ALL AMERICA 6. RELUCTANTLY FAMOUS 7. THE PRINCIPLED CITIZEN APPENDIX: SECRETARIES, ASSISTANTS, AND ADMINISTRATIVE AIDES FOR NEIL ARMSTRONG, 1969–2012 NOTES
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David R. Godine Publisher Remainders of the Day
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University of South Carolina Press Letters Addressed to Clarinda, &c.
Book SynopsisA facsimile of the classic volume of love letters from the Scottish bard. It includes letters from the G Ross Roy Collection of Burnsiana.
£999.99
University of North Texas Press,U.S. The Diaries of John Gregory Bourke v. 1; November
Book SynopsisJohn Gregory Bourke kept a set of diaries beginning as a young cavalry lieutenant in Arizona in 1872 and ending the evening before his death in 1896. This work begins with Bourke's years as aide-de-camp to General Crook during the Apache campaigns and in dealings with Cochise.
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Transforming the Republic of Letters:
Book SynopsisA multi-faceted study of intellectual transformation in early modern Europe as seen through the eyes of a leading French scholar and cleric, Pierre-Daniel Huet (1630-1721). Early modern Europe's most extensive commonwealth -- the Republic of Letters -- could not be found on any map. This republic had patriotic citizens, but no army; it had its own language, but no frontiers. From its birth during theRenaissance, the Republic of Letters long remained a small and close-knit elite community, linked by international networks of correspondence, sharing an erudite neo-Latin culture. In the late seventeenth century, however, it confronted fundamental challenges that influenced its transition to the more public, inclusive, and vernacular discourse of the Enlightenment. Transforming the Republic of Letters is a cultural and intellectual history that chronicles this transition to "modernity" from the perspective of the internationally renowned scholar Pierre-Daniel Huet (1630-1721). Under Shelford's direction, Huet guides us into the intensely social intellectual worldof salons, scientific academies, and literary academies, while his articulate critiques illumine a combative world of Cartesians versus anti-Cartesians, ancients versus moderns, Jesuits versus Jansenists, and salonnières versus humanist scholars. Transforming the Republic of Letters raises questions of critical importance in Huet's era, and our own, about defining, sharing, and controlling access to knowledge. April G. Shelford is Assistant Professor in the History Department at American University, Washington, D.C.Trade ReviewA very welcome and accomplished contribution to our growing understanding of early modern European intellectual history. * JOURNAL OF MODERN HISTORY *Shelford's rich and fascinating study . . . succeeds not only in offering an integrated and more complete study of Huet, but also in providing a more subtle and nuanced account of the means by which the old Republic of Letters operated. . . . [A] meticulously researched study . . . of an important period in the history of ideas. -- Rachel Hammersley * AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW, June 2008 *Huet is a formidable subject to treat in a single book, but Shelford has done an admirable job with full documentation in the notes, mainly from the Bibliothèque nationale de France and the Laurenziana, since few of Huet's works are available in modern editions. -- Charles Fantazzai * RENAISSANCE QUARTERLY, May 2008 *Shelford's book is a well-researched, thoughtful, and critical study of Huet and the transformation of the older Republic of Letters into the more widely studied one of the eighteenth century. [It] provides us with a more subtle understanding of the cultural changes in the period that does not read contemporary ideals backward, proleptically, into the past. * SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY NEWS *Transforming the Republic of Letters is a formidable book about a formidable man: Pierre-Daniel Huet. A deft and vivid narrator, April Shelford recreates Huet's career, his friendships with learned men and women, his projects and his quarrels with erudition, tenacity and deep historical insight. . . . This finely observed biography is also an original and striking work of cultural history. -- Anthony Grafton, Princeton UniversityAt a time when Enlightenment historians are re-discovering the critical importance of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, April Shelford offers us a sophisticated and beautifully written study of the birth of the siècle des lumières as witnessed by a man present throughout its long and difficult gestation. That Huet's relationship to the child was ambivalent -- even hostile -- only renders his story the more compelling. Reading it, we are reminded of how closely death attends to life, and of what is lost as the world is made anew. Huet's tragedy of displacement becomes, in Shelford's skillful handling, in some measure our own. -- Darrin M. McMahon, Department of History, Florida State UniversityTable of ContentsThe Road to Parnassus, 1648-61 The Lives of Poems, 1653-63 The Empire of Women, 1651-89 The Gate of Ivory, 1646-90 Defending Parnassus, 1666-92
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Nadia Boulanger and the Stravinskys: A Selected
Book SynopsisPublished for the first time: a rich epistolary dialogue revealing one master teacher's power to shape the cultural canon and one great composer's desire to embed himself within historical narratives. Nadia Boulanger and Igor Stravinsky began corresponding in 1929 when Stravinsky sought someone to supervise the musical education of his younger son, Soulima. Boulanger accepted the position and began what would prove to be a warmand lasting dialogue with the Stravinsky family. For fifty years, Boulanger exchanged letters with Igor Stravinsky. An additional 140 letters exist written to Boulanger from Stravinsky's immediate family: his wife Catherine, hismother Anna, and his sons Théodore and Soulima. Nadia Boulanger and the Stravinskys: A Selected Correspondence makes available a rich selection from this many-sided dialogue. The letters are published here in English translation (most for the first time in their entirety or at all). The little-known French originals are available on the book's companion website. The letters allow us to follow the conversation shared between Boulanger andthe Stravinskys from 1929 until 1972, the year following Igor Stravinsky's death. Through the words they exchanged, we see Boulanger and Stravinsky transition from respectful colleagues to close friends to, finally, distant icons, with music serving always as a central topic. These letters are a testament to one master teacher's power to shape the cultural canon and one composer's desire to embed himself within historical narratives. Their words touch upon matters professional and personal, musical and social, with the overall narrative reflecting the turmoil of life during the twentieth century and the fragility of artists hoping to leave their mark on the modernist period. Kimberly A. Francis is Associate Professor of Music at the University of Guelph, Canada.Trade ReviewReveals for the first time the full extent of the Boulanger-Stravinsky correspondence and allows us to set aside the errors and erroneous interpretations that [Robert] Craft introduced when he published forty of the letters in 1982. An indispensable complement to [Francis's] deeply researched study [Teaching Stravinsky]. . . . The translations from French into English are excellent. . . . The book has been well and carefully produced. H-FRANCE Full review: https://h-france.net/vol19reviews/vol19no258dufour.pdf * . *An extensive haul of letters spanning more than four decades (1929-41) [that] saw the continuation of the composer's remarkable contribution to 'modernist discourse. * MUSICAL TIMES *Draws on theories by Pierre Bourdieu and others to explore Nadia Boulanger's vital role in the promotion of Stravinsky's music in Europe...useful to scholars of both musicians as contextual reading. * FRENCH HISTORY *Deftly selected, edited and translated. The majority of these letters are appearing in English translation for the first time. They will fascinate readers interested by the emotional and professional lives of these mid-twentieth-century figures. Nadia Boulanger and the Stravinskys adds an important primary source to a growing body of scholarship that seeks to reassess the influential, and in many ways unique, role played by Boulanger in the history of twentieth-century classical music. * ROYAL MUSICAL ASSOCIATION RESEARCH CHRONICLE *A new springboard for further research on Boulanger and the Stravinskys, but even more importantly, illuminates the kinds of entitlements and expectations Stravinsky -- like many men of the period -- had of his supporters and the vast amounts of uncompensated emotional, intellectual, and physical labour Boulanger provided for him in their shared goals to make him the success that he became. * FONTES ARTIS MUSICAE *A model of scholarship. As a reference into the gestation and completion of works like Symphony of Psalms this book is indispensable...[Boulanger's] proof-reading notes to Stravinsky are astounding in their perception and detail....[The companion website] is a true research tool and keeps the length of the book manageable. * AMERICAN RECORD GUIDE *Reading it is an absorbing experience...sheds new light on an important relationship between two exceptional personalities. * GRAMOPHONE *The letters are often moving, and are undoubtedly vital for those studying either figure. * BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE *The correspondence between Nadia Boulanger and the Stravinsky family circle is well worth translating into English. No amount of reporting about their interchanges can substitute for actually following the letters chronologically and absorbing their tone, where personal matters are inextricably entwined with professional ones and Boulanger's absolute admiration for the composer shines through so often. Kimberly Francis's book documents an important moment in twentieth-century music, and also an important moment in the history of women in music. -- Steven Huebner, McGill UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction October 1929-August 1938 Toward America: January 1939-June 1940 The American Years: November 1940-January 1946 After the War, 1946-1951 A Friendship Unravels, 1951-1956 Old Friends: 1956-1972 Bibliography Index
£89.25
Station Hill Press,U.S. Cubanology
Book SynopsisText in Spanish. In 2002, while temporarily living in Europe (mostly Amsterdam), the poet Omar Pérez began writing in a notebook. His journey began as a short professional visit that shifted into something less defined after he fell in love. Eventually the notebook became Cubanology , a book of days reflecting on three years of life at a remove from the island: "A memory of a flight, a journey, jour." Along with registering common and uncommon vicissitudes of everyday life, the result presents a fusion of languages. Simultaneously national and polycultural, Cubanology streams poetic thought and experience, excerpts from other writings in progress, and the coalescence of a new islandic consciousness - scenes reminiscent of many-minded Odysseus, if home were heart. Visual material appearing throughout Cubanology blends Pérez's sketches with photographs from that period, as well as art he made after returning to his family home on Havana's iconic Malécon.
£18.86
The New York Review of Books, Inc An Armenian Sketchbook
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£15.26
Westholme Publishing, U.S. The Diary of Olga Romanov: Royal Witness to the
Book SynopsisIn August 1914, Russia entered the First World War, and with it, the Imperial family of Tsar Nicholas II was thrust into a conflict from which they would not emerge. His eldest child, Olga Nikolaevna, great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria, had begun a diary in 1905 when she was 10 years old and kept writing her thoughts and impressions of day-to-day life as a Grand Duchess until abruptly ending her entries when her father abdicated his throne in March 1917. Held at the State Archives of the Russian Federation in Moscow, Olga's diaries during the wartime period have never been translated into English until this volume. At the outset of the war, Olga and her sister, Tatiana, worked as nurses in a military hospital along with their mother, Tsarina Alexandra. Olga's younger sisters, Maria and Anastasia, visited their own infirmaries to help raise the morale of the wounded and sick soldiers. The strain was indeed great as Olga records her impressions of tending to the officers who had been injured and maimed in the fighting on the Russian front. Concerns about her sickly brother, Aleksei abound, as well those for her father who is seen attempting to manage the ongoing war.Gregori Rasputin appears in entries, too, in an affectionate manner as one would expect of a family friend. While the diaries reflect the interests of a young woman, her tone increases in seriousness as the Russian army suffers setbacks, Rasputin is ultimately murdered, and a popular movement against her family begins to grow. At the point Olga ends her writing in 1917, the author continues the story by translating letters and impressions from family intimates, such as Anna Vyrubova, as well as the diary kept by Nicholas II himself. Finally, once the Imperial family has been put under house arrest by the revolutionaries, observations by Alexander Kerensky, head of the initial Provisional Government, are provided, these too in English translation for the first time. Olga would offer no further personal writings as she and the rest of her family were crowded into the basement of a house in the Urals and shot to death in July 1918.The Diary of Olga Romanov: Royal Witness to the Russian Revolution, translated and introduced by scientist and librarian Helen Azar, and supplemented with additional primary source material, is a remarkable document of a young woman who did not choose to be part of a royal family and never exploited her own position, but lost her life simply because of what her family represented.
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Kent State University Press Blue-Blooded Cavalryman: Captain William Brooke
Book SynopsisIn May 1863, eighteen-year-old William Brooke Rawle graduated from the University of Pennsylvania and traded a genteel, cultured life of privilege for service as a cavalry officer. Travelling from his home in Philadelphia to Virginia, he joined the Third Pennsylvania Cavalry and soon found himself in command of a company of veterans of two years’ service, some of whom were more than twice his age. Within eight weeks, he had participated in two of the largest cavalry battles of the war at Brandy Station and Gettysburg. Brooke Rawle and the Third Pennsylvania Cavalry would serve with the Cavalry Corps of the Army of the Potomac through April 1864, fighting partisans and guerillas in Northern Virginia and also seeing action during the Bristoe Station and Mine Run battles of late 1863. A meticulous diarist and letter writer, Brooke Rawle documented nearly everything that came under his observant eye in 150 well-written letters home to his family. These letters, supplemented by his diary entries, provide a fascinating, richly detailed look into the life of a regimental cavalry officer during the last two years of the Civil War in the East.
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Kent State University Press Letters to Lizzie: The Story of Sixteen Men in
Book SynopsisOne young woman's correspondence with her community's servicemen, maintaining connection and boosting morale throughout the Civil WarDuring the American Civil War, soldiers frequently wrote letters to friends and family members as a way of maintaining their connections to loved ones at home. However, most of the published collections of Civil War letters contain correspondence between just two individuals. Letters to Lizzie: The Story of Sixteen Men in the Civil War and the One Woman Who Connected Them All contains a collection of letters exchanged between 16 men—15 soldiers and a quartermaster at a military hospital—and one young woman, Lizzie Brick. Since Lizzie herself could not bear arms, she took up her pen and through ongoing correspondence helped these Union soldiers sustain their motivation for the cause.The men served in 11 different regiments in the Army of the Potomac, and their correspondence reveals unique insights into the connections between home front and battlefront during the Civil War and into the dynamics of male-female friendships in the 19th century. The letters span the entire war, and within them, the soldiers share their opinions about the people of the South, describe their experiences on the battlefield, and voice their frustrations with their commanders and the conduct of the war.Letters to Lizzie presents a complex portrait of a young woman during wartime as well as the concerns of soldiers, thus contributing to our understanding of the connections between servicemen and their communities and the role that women played during the Civil War in sustaining these relationships.Trade Review"The 124 letters contained within its covers and the impressive editorial work by Professor Scythes not only makes Letters to Lizzie well worth reading and adding to any Civil War enthusiast's library, this book also needs to be included in the discussion of the finest collections of Civil War soldiers' letters available." —Emerging Civil War "Lizzie Brick longed to carry a musket for the Union cause, but as a woman she could only wield a pen on behalf of her nation. She became a pen pal with sixteen men wearing the blue, instructing, and inspiring them to be pure in thought, moral in camp, and brave in battle. Scythes has put together a volume of soldier correspondence that is unlike any publication that we have seen in the field of Civil War history." —Peter S. Carmichael, professor of Civil War studies at Gettysburg College and author of The War for the Common Soldier: How Men Fought, Thought, and Survived in Civil War Armies "This unique collection of letters captures the Civil War's impact not just on one or two letter-writers but on a whole community of ordinary Americans. Most compellingly, it highlights the crucial wartime role played by many women, like Lizzie Brick, who anchored social networks stretched from home front to battlefield." —Christopher Hager, author of I Remain Yours: Common Lives in Civil War Letters "I absolutely love this unique collection of letters. Civil War soldiers especially valued female correspondents, and here we see how women like Lizzie connected men to each other. Through Lizzie and her friends, the social expectations of young people during the Civil War are made vivid for modern readers." —Lorien Foote, professor of history at Texas A&M University "This is an extraordinary collection of letters that captures the pathos and passion of the war years. These letters provide rich detail on the monotony of camp, dangers of battle, anguish of sickness, and the social milieu of these young men who went off to war. Lizzie kept them all anchored to the world they had left behind, and kept their letters so that we have a wonderful snapshot into that world." —Judkin Browning, co-author of An Environmental History of the Civil War
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Kent State University Press Through Blood and Fire: The Civil War Letters of
Book SynopsisThe insightful letters of a Harvard-educated staff officer's experience in the Army of the PotomacaCharles J. Mills, the scion of a wealthy, prominent Boston family, experienced a privileged upbringing and was educated at Harvard University. When the Civil War began, Mills, like many of his college classmates, sought to secure a commission in the army. After a year of unsuccessful attempts, Mills was appointed second lieutenant in the Second Massachusetts Infantry in August 1862; however, he was seriously wounded at Antietam a month later. Following a nearly yearlong recovery, Mills eventually reentered the service as a staff officer, although he remained physically disabled for the rest of his life. He was initially with the Ninth Corps during the Overland and Petersburg Campaigns and later at the Second Corps headquarters.During his time in the army, Mills served under seven different generals and witnessed some of the most intense fighting of the war. Mills's letters to his family offer enlightening insights about the Civil War in the East as seen from the perspective of an educated, impressionable, and opinionated Bostonian Brahmin.Compiled, edited, and privately published in a limited edition in 1982 by the late Gregory A. Coco, Through Blood and Fire did not achieve widespread attention and has been out of print for decades. This new edition of the Mills letters, extensively revised and edited by J. Gregory Acken, incorporates additional letters and source material and provides exhaustive annotations and analysis, revitalizing this important primary source for understanding a crucial era of our history.Trade Review"Few primary sources better inform us about the lives of Civil War soldiers than do their letters. .... With the recent publication of Through Blood and Fire in a "revised and expanded edition," and expertly edited by J. Gregory Acken, bibliophiles now have an opportunity to finally read and own what is widely considered as one of the finest collections of published letters in existence."#8212;Emerging Civil War "This second edition of Through Blood and Fire improves upon the original version by increasing reader understanding of the people, places, and events in Charles J. Mills' letters home. Taken as a whole, Through Blood and Fire is a worthy successor to Greg Coco's rare original and should be on the shelves of anyone interested in the Petersburg Campaign." —The Siege of Petersburg Online "In the many collections of Civil War letters published, those of Charlie Mills stand out. A line officer and, for much of the war, a staff officer, he had a unique perspective of the conflict. Greg Acken has done a superb job of editing and annotating Mills's letters and providing context."—D. Scott Hartwig,author of To Antietam Creek: The Maryland Campaign of 1862 "Charles G. Mills's observations about military affairs, Union commanders, northern politics, and other topics constitute a treasure trove of evidence to be savored by students of the conflict."—Gary W. Gallagher, author of The Enduring Civil War: Reflections on the Great American Crisis "Likeable, smart, articulate, and observant, Charles Mills left behind a written chronicle of an officer's life rarely exceeded in the literature of the Civil War—a close, vivid look at an army in the process of ultimate victory. Mills's Civil War letters are beautifully resurrected, edited, and annotated by Greg Acken and must become a standard source for anyone with an interest in the Army of the Potomac or the human experience of war."—John Hennessy, retired National Park Service historian and author of Return to Bull Run: The Campaign and Battle of Second Manassas
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Shambhala Publications Inc Notes for the Everlost: A Field Guide to Grief
Book SynopsisPart memoir, part handbook for the heartbroken, this powerful, unsparing account of losing a premature baby will speak to all who have been bereaved and are grieving, and offers inspiration on moving forward, gently integrating the loss into life.Inglis’s story is a springboard that can help other bereaved parents—and anyone who has experienced wrenching loss—reflect on emotional survival in the first year; dealing with family, friends, and bystanders post-loss; the unique survivors’ guilt, feelings of failure, and isolation of bereavement; and the fortitude of like-minded community and small kindnesses. Inglis’s unique voice—at once brash, irreverent, and achingly beautiful—creates a nuanced picture of the landscape of grief, encompassing the trauma, the waves of disbelief and emptiness, the moments of unexpected affinity and lightness, and the compassion that grows from our most intense chapters of the human experience.
£14.39
Melville House Publishing The Diary of a Bookseller
Book SynopsisA WRY AND HILARIOUS ACCOUNT OF LIFE AT A BOOKSHOP IN A REMOTE SCOTTISH VILLAGE Among the most irascible and amusing bookseller memoirs I've read. —Dwight Garner, The New York Times Warm, witty and laugh-out-loud funny... —The Daily Mail The Diary of a Bookseller is Shaun Bythell's funny and fascinating memoir of a year in the life at the helm of The Bookshop, in the small village of Wigtown, Scotland—and of the delightfully odd locals, unusual staff, eccentric customers, and surreal buying trips that make up his life there as he struggles to build his business . . . and be polite . . . In this wry and hilarious diary, he tells us the trials and tribulations of being a small businessman; of learning that customers can be, um, eccentric; and of wrangling with his own staff of oddballs. And perhaps none are quirkier than the charmingly cantankerous bookseller Bythell himself turns out to be. Slowly, with a mordant wit and keen eye, Bythell is seduced by the growing charm of small-town life, despite—or maybe because of—all the peculiar characters there.
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