 | Letters of the Century: America 1900-1999
Release Date: April 8, 2008"Immediate and evocative, letters witness and fasten history, catching events as they happen," write Lisa Grunwald and Stephen J. Adler in their introduction to this remarkable book. In more than 400 letters from both famous figures and ordinary citizens, Letters of the Century encapsulates the people and places, events and trends that shaped our nation during the last 100 years.Here is Mark Twain's hilarious letter of complaint to the head of Western Union, an ecstatic letter from a young Charlie Chaplin upon receiving his first movie contract, Einstein...
 |  | Selected Letters
Publication Date: January 17, 2007| Series: Selected Letters An epistolary exchange that highlights two singular intellects, their disparate approaches to literature and their mutual admiration.This volume features selections from the New Directions founder's correspondence with Guy Davenport, the polymath artist and author of The Geography of the Imagination. More than simply detailing an author/publisher relationship, these letters depict two fine minds educating and supporting each other in the service of literature. ...
|  | Graham Greene: A Life in Letters
Publication Date: December 17, 2008This absorbing autobiography in lettersoffers aremarkable window into the life of one of thegreatest novelists of our time. "The BestBook of the Year." --David Lodge, The Guardian[UK]One of the undisputed masters of twentieth-century English prose,Graham Greene (1904-1991)wrote tens of thousands of personal letters. This exemplary volume presents a newand engrossing account of hislife constructed out of hisown words. Impeccably edited byscholar Richard Greene, the letters--including manyunavailable evento his officialbiographer--give a newperspective on a l...
|  | The Letters of Allen Ginsberg
Publication Date: September 2, 2008Allen Ginsberg (1926–1997) was one of twentieth-century literature’s most prolific letter-writers. This definitive volume showcases his correspondence with some of the most original and interesting artists of his time, including Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs, Gregory Corso, Neal Cassady, Lionel Trilling, Charles Olson, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Philip Whalen, Peter Orlovsky, Philip Glass, Arthur Miller, Ken Kesey, and hundreds of others.Through his letter writing, Ginsberg coordinated the efforts of his literary circle and kept everyone informe...
|  | My Love Affair with the State of Maine
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|  | Letters from Father Seraphim
Publication Date: July 31, 2008More insite in to the wisdom and life of Father Seraphim ...
|  | Thomas Merton: A Life in Letters: The Essential Collection (Merton, Thomas//Journal of Thomas Merton)
Release Date: October 7, 2008| Series: Merton, Thomas//Journal of Thomas Merton Thomas Merton (1915-1968) was one of the most influential spiritual writers of modern times. A Trappist monk, peace and civil rights activist, and widely-praised literary figure, Merton was renowned for his pioneering work in contemplative spirituality, his quest to understand Eastern thought and integrate it with Western spirituality, and his firm belief in Christian activism. His autobiography, The Seven Storey Mountain, is the defining spiritual memoir of its time, selling over one million copies and translati...
|  | Letters from the Pacific: A World War II Romance
Publication Date: June 30, 2012This is the story of Jane and Chuck Flynn, five years married and actors by profession, who give up their happy life in Hollywood to serve their country. Chuck joins the Navy, and sees action in the Pacific, where his ship is hit. Jane joins the USO and is sent on a tour of the Pacific. It's a heady atmosphere, with the girls constantly surrounded by adoring men. These letters convey the charm and intimacy of Jane and Chuck's relationship during the difficult days of World War II. ...
|  | The Letters of Noel Coward
Release Date: November 13, 2007A publishing event! The first and definitive collection of letters (most of them previously unpublished) both from and to the incomparable Noël Coward, a unique and irresistible portrait of a society and age—from the Blitz to the Ritz and beyond. The range, charm, and vitality of his talents—he was a playwright, actor, composer, librettist, lyricist, director, painter, writer, cabaret singer, wit—brought him into close encounters, and often close friendship, with the great and the gifted. He knew everybody who was anybody in the theate...
|  | Pound/Joyce: The Letters of Ezra Pound to James Joyce, With Pound's Critical Essays and Articles About Joyce
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|  | Picture Letters From the Commander in Chief: Letters From Iwo Jima
Publication Date: June 26, 2007| ISBN-10: 1421518457 | ISBN-13: 978-1421518459| Edition: 1 The battle of Iwo Jima was one of the bloodiest campaigns of WWII. Under the command of Lt. General Tadamichi Kuribayashi, the Japanese army held off U.S. Navy and Naval Air Corps. attack for over a month before finally succumbing to defeat. Comprised mostly of personal letters from Kuribayashi to his family, Picture Letters From the Commander in Chief offers readers a unique glimpse into arguably the most iconic battle of the second World War. A sensitive man, Kuribayashi is able to articulate in ...
|  | Between Friends: The Correspondence of Hannah Arendt and Mary McCarthy 1949-1975
Publication Date: January 17, 1995Selections from the twenty-five-year correspondence between Hannah Arendt and Mary McCarthy provide an intimate look at two important women of the twentieth century; reflects their ideas on politics, morality, and other topics; and traces the evolution of a unique friendship. ...
|  | Authors of Their Lives: The Personal Correspondence of British Immigrants to North America in the Nineteenth Century
Release Date: July 1, 2008| ISBN-10: 0814732003 | ISBN-13: 978-08147320072008 United States Postal System's Rita Lloyd Moroney AwardIn the era before airplanes and e-mail, how did immigrants keep in touch with loved ones in their homelands, as well as preserve links with pasts that were rooted in places from which they voluntarily left? Regardless of literacy level, they wrote letters, explains David A. Gerber in this path-breaking study of British immigrants to the U.S. and Canada who wrote and received letters during the nineteenth century.Scholars have long used immigrant letters as a...
|  | Dear Mrs. Kennedy: The World Shares Its Grief, Letters November 1963
Release Date: October 12, 2010| ISBN-10: 031238615X | ISBN-13: 978-0312386153| Edition: First Edition From the bestselling author of Kennedy Weddings and Diana and Jackie comes a powerful and moving collection of the condolence letters Jacqueline Kennedy received after the assassination of John F. KennedyIn the weeks and months following the assassination of her husband, First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy received more than one million letters. The impact of President Kennedy’s death was so immense that people from every station in life wrote to her, sharing their feelings of sympathy, ...
|  | Ocean Pathways (Volume 1)
Publication Date: June 14, 2012Ocean Pathways is an historical and informative book based on the personal experience of Maryknoll Sisters who lived in the Marshall Islands with the Marshallese from the mid-1900s through 2010.The material shared in this book includes history of the Marshall Islands, the culture, the people, the environs and its effect on the life style, and the local government.It also speaks to the influence of the United Nations in developing these islands, and the role of the United States. ...
|  | The Complete Letters of Oscar Wilde
Publication Date: December 1, 2000| ISBN-10: 0805059156 | ISBN-13: 978-0805059151| Edition: 1st Here is Oscar Wilde revealed in his own words--including more than 200 previously unpublished letters--available to coincide with the one hundredth anniversary of his deathDeliciously wicked, astoundingly clever, and often outright shocking, Oscar Wilde put his art into his work and his genius into his life. In this collection, replete with newly discovered letters, the full extent of that genius is unveiled.Charting his life from his Irish upbringing to fame in his fin de siècle London...
|  | The Letters of Hildegard of Bingen: Volume III
Publication Date: March 18, 2004| Series: Letters of Hildegard of Bingen This is the third and final volume of the complete annotated correspondence of the extraordinary nun, Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179). One of the most remarkable women of her day, Hildegard was, for more than 30 years, an unflinching advisor and correspondent of all levels of church and society, from popes and kings to ordinary lay persons, from Jerusalem to England.This present volume (letters 218-390) is noteworthy for its large collection of letters to a non-ecclesiastical audience, and because it contains letters no...
|  | Adams Family Correspondence Vols. 5 & 6: December 1784-December 1785 (The Adams Papers, Series II, Adams Family Correspondence) (v. 5 & 6)
Publication Date: December 1, 1992| ISBN-10: 067400406X | ISBN-13: 978-0674004061| Edition: 6"I cannot O! I cannot be reconciled to living as I have done for 3 years past… Will you let me try to soften, if I cannot wholy) releave you, from your Burden of Cares and perplexities?'' So begins Abigail Adams' correspondence to her husband in these volumes: a plea to end their long separation, as John Adams represented the United States in Europe while Abigail tended to family and farm in Massachusetts, and passed on to John Crucial political information from Congress.In October 178...
|  | Understanding Me: Lectures and Interviews
Publication Date: February 11, 2005In the last twenty years of his life, Marshall McLuhan published a series of books that established his reputation as a world-renowned communications theorist and the pre-eminent seer of the modern age. It was McLuhan who made the distinction between "hot" and "cool" media. And it was he who coined the phrases "the medium is the message" and "the global village" and popularized other memorable terms including "feedback" and "iconic."McLuhan was far more than a pithy phrasemaker, however. He foresaw the development of personal computers at a time when comput...
|  | Selected Letters (Penguin Classics)
Release Date: September 1, 1997| Series: Penguin Classics This is a revised selection of Lady Montagu's letters. Besides presenting a vivid picture of manners in a picturesque age, they contain a unique series of impressions from foreign courts seldom visited and nowhere else so intimately described. Lady Mary was the wife of a popular ambassador and, wielding the charm of a strong personality, was enabled to see and hear many things of which the ordinary traveler, or resident abroad, knew - and knows - little or nothing. Originally written, for the most part, to her sisters, her daughter, o...
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